Higher Education Information Sheet

EXTERNAL EXAMINERS

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All higher education programmes have an External Examiner (EE) allocated as part of the quality assurance of the programme. EEs visit the programme team at least once a year, depending on their contract, to review student work, meet students and check on the organisation and management of the programme particularly relating to assessment and academic standards. They then make a report of their findings which may include recommendations for action in response to their findings. The College is then responsible for responding to the report and putting in place actions as appropriate. Reports are reviewed by the College and university partners regularly to help inform wider quality improvements and areas of good practice to share and develop.

Sharing of External Examiner Reports with studentsAll HE students have the right to see the External Examiner (EE) report for their programme. You can view the EE report(s) for your programme on the HE Information site on Blackboard.

EE reports are also shared and discussed with programme teams via programme meetings where student representatives are expected to be present. Student Reps are then responsible for providing an overview of key findings from the report back to their programme group as appropriate.

Issue 1 — Jan 2015 Contents correct at time of publication