Quality Handbook Supplement 0B - List of Quality Handbook Sections and Supplements
Find a list of all Quality Handbook Sections and Supplements as of September 2026.
Quality Handbook Sections
The following documents link to the main Quality Handbook sections.
Part A: Governance and approach
- Section 0: Introduction and Key Academic Quality Values
- Section 1: Academic Quality Governance - Requirements
- Section 2: Enabling Student Development and Achievement through Governance and Engagement – Requirements
- Section 2A: Student Attendance and Engagement policy – Requirements
Part B: Award frameworks
- Section 3: Undergraduate awards - Requirements
- Section 4: Postgraduate taught and research awards – Requirements
Part C: Assuring and enhancing quality
- Section 5: Course design and approval - Requirements
- Section 6: Course Review and Re-Approval Policy
- Section 7: Periodic Review - Requirements
- Section 8: Student Representation and Student Voice - Requirements
- Section 9: External Examining - Requirements
- Section 10: Academic Partnerships: Approval
- Section 10A: Academic Partnerships: Delivery
- Section 10B: Academic Partnerships: Review
- Section 10C: Microcredentials - Requirements
- Section 10D: Placements - Requirements
- Section 10E: Apprenticeships - Requirements
- Section 11: Research degrees - Requirements
Part D: Course design, management and enhancement
- Section 12: Course Design - Requirements
- Section 13: Admissions - Requirements
- Section 14: Learning, Teaching and Professional Development Policy
- Section 15: Assessment Requirements
- Section 15: Requirements for Assessment Management and Operation (to be implemented on 1 December 2026)
Part E: Regulations
- Section 16: Taught course awards and registration periods - Requirements
- Section 16A: Common Assessment Regulations for Bachelor's and Integrated Master's Degrees – Requirements
- Codicil to Section 16A: Common Assessment Regulations for Integrated Foundation Year Courses
- Section 16B: Common Assessment Regulations for Foundation Degrees - Requirements
- Section 16C: Common Assessment Regulations for Taught Postgraduate Degrees - Requirements
- Section 16D: Principles for drafting non-degree course regulations - Requirements
- Section 16E: Common Assessment Regulations for Higher National Awards - Requirements
- Section 16F: Codicil to the Common Assessment Regulations for in-year reassessment
- Section 17A: Consideration of Personal Circumstances Policy – Requirements
- Section 17B: Academic Appeals Process - Requirements
- Section 17C: Academic Integrity Policy - Requirements
- Section 17D: Procedure for Investigating Alleged Research Misconduct - Requirements
- Section 17E: Student Complaints Procedure - Requirements
- Section 17F: Research Degrees Complaints and Appeals Procedures – Requirements
Quality Handbook Supplements
The following supplements link to the associated numbered sections of the Quality Handbook.
Section 0
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
- 3A Guidance for Foundation Degrees
- 3B Guidance on Professional Certificates and Professional Diplomas
- 3C Course Titling Guidance
Section 4
No supplements
Section 5
- 5B Course Design and Approval Implementation
- 5C Course Design and Approval School Leadership Checklist
- 5D Course Design and Approval: Considering External Input in Course Design
- 5E Appointing External Specialists for Academic Approval
- 5F Curriculum Map Exemplar
- 5G Teach Out Arrangements
- 5H Requirements for International Student Exchanges
- 5I Requirements for the Approval and Quality Management of Different Categories of Course
- 5J Assessment Regulations when there are PSRB Constraints
Section 6
- 6A Course Review and Re-Approval Guidance
- 6B Course Review Plan (template for courses)
- 6C Course Review Annual SASQC Reporting (required template)
Section 7
- 7A Periodic Review: School Review Operational Guidance
- 7B Periodic Review: Guidance for Panel Members
Section 8
Section 9
No supplements
Section 10 - 10C
Section 10D
No supplements
Section 10E
- AP1 Apprenticeships Work-Based Learning Guidance
- AP2 Apprenticeships Subcontracting Requirements
- AP3 Integrated End Point Assessment Policy
- AP4 End Point Assessment Fair Access Policy
- AP5 End Point Assessment Conflict of Interest Policy
Section 11
No supplements
Section 12
- 12A Course Design Requirements Guidance
- 12B Requirements for the Use of Digital Technologies in Learning, Teaching, and Assessment
- 12C Principles for High-Quality Online Learning
- 12D Applications to the University's course design exceptions register
Section 13
Section 14
No supplements
Section 15
- 15A: Assessment Guidance (to be implemented on 1 December 2026)
- 15B Grade-Based Marking Descriptors
- 15C Requirements for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Credit Transfer
- 15D Assessment schedule and feedback plan exemplar (Terms)
- 15D Assessment schedule and feedback plan exemplar (Semesters - Undergraduate)
- 15D Assessment schedule and feedback plan exemplar (Semesters - Postgraduate)
- 15E Boards of Examiners Guidance
- 15F Boards of Examiners Requirements
- 15G Requirements for the Use of Turnitin
- 15H Personal Exam Plans
Section 16
Section 17
No supplements