The University's Governance and Policies website is the definitive source of the University's regulations, policy and student charter.
The Progression, Determination and Classification of Results: Undergraduate and Integrated Masters Programmes regulations and the Progression, Determination and Classification of Results: Postgraduate Master's Programmes regulations govern undergraduate, integrated masters and postgraduae taught programmes and the Regulations for Research Degrees govern postgraduate research degree programmes.
A School may request that a programme of study is exempted from one or more of the clauses in the regulations, that one or more of the clauses is varied, and/or additional requirements are imposed.
Requests for taught programmes are considered by the Programme Regulations Scrutiny Group of the Academic Quality and Standards Subcommittee (AQSS). Requests for research programms are considered by the PGR QME Subcommittee. Templates for this process are available from the Quality Standards and Accreditation Team. Its recommendations are submitted to AQSS for endorsement and to Senate for approval. It is generally understood that any such approval may remain in place for a maximum of five years (or until the next scheduled programme review) at which point the School should intend to harmonise with the standard regulations. For an exemptions, variation and/or additional requirement to persist beyond the next programme review, the School must submit a sound rationale to the Programme Regulations Scrutiny Group for its continuation (usually abased on developing University education strategy or the requirements of external professional, statutory and regulatory bodies) .
All approved exemptions, variations and additional requirements applicable to taught programmes are published on the Faculty pages of the Academic Regulations for Taught Students, with exemptions, variations and additional requirements for PGR programmes published on the Faculty pages of the Academic Regulations for Research Students.