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
- Section 2: Enabling Student Development and Achievement through Governance and Engagement
- Section 2A: Student Attendance and Engagement policy
Part B: Award frameworks
Part C: Assuring and enhancing quality
- Section 5: Course design and Approval
- Section 6: Course Review and Re-Approval Policy
- Section 7: Periodic Review
- Section 8: Student Representation and Student Voice
- Section 9: External Examining
- Section 10: Academic Partnerships: Approval
- Section 10A: Academic Partnerships: Delivery
- Section 10B: Academic Partnerships: Review
- Section 10C: Microcredentials
- Section 10D: Placements
- Section 10E: Apprenticeships
- Section 11: Research Degrees
Part D: Course design, management and enhancement
- Section 12: Course Design
- Section 13: Admissions
- Section 14: Learning, Teaching and Professional Development Policy
- Section 15: Assessment
- 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
- Section 16A: Common Assessment Regulations for Bachelor's and Integrated Master's Degrees
- Codicil to Section 16A: Common Assessment Regulations for Integrated Foundation Year Courses
- Section 16B: Common Assessment Regulations for Foundation Degrees
- Section 16C: Common Assessment Regulations for Taught Postgraduate Degrees
- Section 16D: Principles for Drafting Non-Degree Course Regulations
- Section 16E: Common Assessment Regulations for Higher National Awards
- Section 16F: Codicil to the Common Assessment Regulations for in-year Reassessment
- Section 17A: Consideration of Personal Circumstances Policy
- Section 17B: Academic Appeals Process
- Section 17C: Academic Integrity Policy
- Section 17D: Procedure for Investigating Alleged Research Misconduct
- Section 17E: Student Complaints Procedure
- Section 17F: Research Degrees Complaints and Appeals Procedures
Quality Handbook Supplements
The following supplements link to the associated numbered sections of the Quality Handbook.
Section 0
Section 1
Section 2
- 2A: Student Route Academic Engagement Monitoring
- 2B: Withdrawal from Study
- 2C: Use of Learning Analytics to Support Student Success
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 Model
- 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
- 5K: Course Approval and Course Operational Change Deadlines
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