Educational and Student Policy

Index of policies and guidance

This index provides quick links to the main policy documents and guidance areas on Educational and Student Policy's website. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive list. There is also a University-wide A-Z directory.

A  B  C  D   E  F  G  H  I   J  K  L  M  N  O   P  Q  R  S  T  U   V  W   X   Y   Z

A

• Annual learning and teaching quality update: guidance and template
• Approval process: see entries for 'courses, new or substantially revised', 'Incuria', 'Notices' and 'Regulations and Supplementary Regulations'
• Assessment:
  • Practices and expectations
  • Types - formative and summative, General Board policy and considerations for Faculty Boards
• Assessors: see 'Examiners'
• Award, appropriateness of

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C

• Collaboration: general guidelines on collaborative provision
• College and University teaching: guidelines on the coordination of University and College teaching
• Committees: roles of central and faculty/departmental committees in quality assurance
• Consultations: responses to national consultations
• Courses, new or substantially revised: guidelines for developing proposals for new or substantially revised courses

D

• Disability awareness: guidelines on disabled students in learning, teaching and assessment
• Dispensation for non-attendance at the final Examiners' meeting: guidance and form

E

• Employers: policy on including employers' views in programme specification
• Equality and diversity: related policies and sources of further information
• Examination data and scripts:
  • General Board guidance on examination data and scripts
  • Retention of examination data
• Examiners:
  • Eligibility and appointment of Examiners and Assessors
  • Requirements and timetables for Examiners' Reports
  • Responding to Examiners' Reports
• External Examiners:
  • General Board guidance on the arrangements for External Examiners
  • Report coversheet
  • Responding to External Examiners' Reports
  • Role

F

• Feedback to students: expectations of feedback to students on their academic performance
• Feedback from, and engagement with, students:
  • Expectations and main elements of Faculty Board engagement with students
  • Aims and levels of student engagement
  • Diagram to show levels of consultation and discussion with students
• Form and Conduct Notices: guidance and information about notices relating to changes to the form and conduct of examinations

G

• Good practice: Learning and Teaching Support Initiative

H

• Higher Education Academy (HEA): information about the HEA

I

• Information: guidance for faculties and departments on the provision of information to students and their Supervisors
• Incuria: General Board policy and process for considering cases of incuria, illegal combinations of papers and special circumstances

J

• Joint Academic Coding of Subjects (JACS Codes): guide to selecting JACS codes
• Junior members: see 'Student'

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L

• Learning aims and outcomes: guidance for faculties and departments
• Learning and Teaching Strategy: 2009-12 strategy and action plan
• Lifelong learning:
  • Awards for non-members of the University
  • Report from the Council for Lifelong Learning

M

• Marking and classing criteria: General Board guidelines on marking standards and classing conventions

N

• Notices: types of Notice

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P

• Papers:
  • Illegal combinations of: see 'Incuria'
  • Policy on increasing the number of papers within a Tripos
  • Suspension or discontinuation of a paper or course
• Personal Development Planning (PDP): information about PDP and student progress
• Plagiarism: expectations of the General Board with regard to plagiarism and good academic practice
• Placement learning: general guidelines for placement learning
• Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs): procedure for considering the reports of PSRBs
• Programme specifications: guidance and templates

Q

• Quality Assurance Agency (QAA): information about QAA reference points and institutional audit
• Quality Contacts: information about the role and list of current departmental Quality Contacts

R

• Regulations and Supplementary Regulations: information and expectations
• Reports: information and examples
• Reserved Business: Statutory definition and use by Faculty Boards
• Reviewing learning, teaching and assessment: guidance for faculties and departments
• Reviews of the General Board: information about Learning and Teaching and Full Reviews plus supplementary documentation

S

• Scripts: see 'examinations data and scripts'
• Staff: mentoring, reviewing, developing, guidance and sources of support
• Student:
  • Feedback and engagement: see 'Feedback to students' and 'Feedback from, and engagement with, students'
  • Induction: expectations of faculties and departments
  • Progress: see 'Personal Development Planning'
• Strategic planning of learning and teaching: guidance for faculties and departments
• Surveys: University wide surveys including NSS, PTES, and PRES

T

• Training of graduate students who supervise undergraduates: requirements of the General Board and the Senior Tutors' Committee
• Travel Funds: guidance and application forms for the Grupo Santander, Travelling Expenses and Foreign Travel Funds

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V

• Variable subjects: using variable subjects

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