Entitlements

An external examiner has the following powers:

• The external examiner may report directly to the Vice-Chancellor on matters of major concern that pose a serious risk to the quality and standards of a Nottingham Trent award, if serious issues are not satisfactorily addressed by the Dean of School/Head of the Validated Centre (or nominee).
• In the unlikely event that external examiners have a concern about academic standards and quality, which concerns serious systematic or procedural problems and cannot be resolved through University channels, external examiners are advised to make use of the QAA's procedure for raising concerns at the QAA web site.
• In the event of an external examiner disagreeing with a recommendation for conferment, the matter should be decided by a vote of Board members. If, following a vote, an external examiner does not support the majority decision the matter should be referred to Academic Board before the results are ratified. In such cases, the external examiner may withhold their signature from the conferment statement.
• If the external examiner has major concerns about the internal moderation of marks from the samples they receive, they have right of access to all student work that is assessed in their area of responsibility for the purposes of further monitoring and checking.
• The external examiner does not have the authority to alter individual marks. However it may be appropriate for the external examiner to recommend a review of marks in a particular mark band.