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Appeals

Undergraduate Appeals

Final-year undergraduate students

 

Under certain defined circumstances final-year undergraduate students may appeal against the award of a particular degree class (including Pass degree), or if they have not been awarded a qualification (with no further right of resit). You are required to complete a form if you wish to appeal. This form, which includes the conditions relating to appeals and contact details for seeking advice on making an appeal, is available via the "Academic Appeal Form" link to the right of this page. Appeals from final-year students against degree classification are administered by the Student Complaints and Academic Casework Team in the Academic Registrar’s Office (please see the appeal form for further details and contacts).

First-year and Intermediate-year undergraduate students

First-year and intermediate-year undergraduate students have the right to appeal only against a decision that they be required to withdraw from their course of study, and then only if they are in possession of relevant evidence which was not available to the Board of Examiners when its decision was reached and can provide good reason for not having made the Board of Examiners aware of this evidence previously. You are required to complete a form if you wish to appeal. This form, which includes contact details for advice on appeal procedures, is available via the "Academic Appeal Form" link to the right of this page. Appeals by first- and intermediate-year students are administered by the Student Complaints and Academic Casework Team in the Academic Registrar’s Office (please see the appeal form for further details and contacts).

Postgraduate Taught Appeals

If it is decided that your performance merits the award of a lower qualification than the one for which you were registered or does not merit the award of a qualification at all, you have a right of appeal. Regulation 42 sets out the procedure to be followed for taught postgraduate courses and is accessible via "Academic Appeal Form" link to the right of this page.

Students should note that there is no right of appeal against the requirement to resubmit work or resit examinations nor against the decision to award a Master's degree at pass level rather than with distinction or merit.

Appeals relating to Taught Postgraduate degrees will be administered by the Student Complaints and Academic Casework Team in the Academic Registrar's Office (please see the appeal form for further details and contacts).

Postgraduate Research Appeals

Appeals relating to Postgraduate Research degrees are administered by the Doctoral College (see Warwick Doctoral College).

Undergraduate students

Please note that the appeal process is not an open-ended process enabling appeal on the basis of any set of circumstances. Appeals may only be made on the specific and limited grounds set out in Regulation 42. The following are the permissible grounds of appeal under Regulation 42:

(a) The student is in possession of evidence relevant to their assessment performance which was not available to the Board of Examiners when their decision was reached. The student must provide evidence of good reason for not having made the Board of Examiners aware of this evidence prior to the assessment decision;

(b) There is evidence of a procedural irregularity in the conduct of the examination process;

(c) There is evidence of prejudice or bias on the part of one or more of the examiners.

 

Postgraduate taught students

Please note that the appeal process is not an open-ended process enabling appeal on the basis of any set of circumstances. Appeals may only be made on the specific and limited grounds set out in Regulation 42. The following are the permissible grounds of appeal under Regulation 42:

(a) The student is in possession of evidence relevant to their examination performance which was not available to the Board of Examiners when their decision was reached. The student must provide evidence of good reason for not having made the Board of Examiners aware of this evidence prior to the assessment decision;

(b) There is evidence of procedural irregularity in the examination process; or

(c) There is evidence of prejudice or bias on the part of one or more of the examiners.

(d) There is evidence of inadequacy of supervisory or other arrangements during the student’s enrolment at the University. In this instance the student is required to explain why a complaint under the Student Complaints Resolution Procedure was not made at an earlier stage.

 

Important information for all students

*No decisions of Boards of Examiners other than those noted above are open to appeal*. Please note that the appeal procedure may not be used to challenge individual module results (unless there is relevant evidence of procedural irregularity), nor to challenge examiners’ academic judgement, nor to dispute marks awarded in individual modules or pieces of work, nor to request a “re-mark”.