Teaching quality assurance manual (TQA Manual)

Postgraduate Research - Student Information

Definitions

• Levels and awards framework
• Teaching and research

Teaching and Learning

• Curriculum accessibility: code of good practice

Student Support

• Provision of information by Colleges to students

Postgraduate Research Students

• Admission of students to a research degree programme under off-campus arrangements - split site and distance-based students: statement of procedures
• Arrangement for the Supervision of Research Degree Students: code of good practice
• Supervision of postgraduate research students: code of good practice
• Periods of registration and changes to registration status for graduate research students: statement of procedures
• Presentation of Theses/Dissertations for Degrees in the Faculty of Graduate Research: Statement of Procedures
• Employment of postgraduate research students: code of good practice

Assessment

• Unsatisfactory academic progress: code of good practice
• Boards of examiners for degrees by research: code of good practice
• Managing Academic Misconduct (including plagiarism, cheating and collusion): code of practice
• Student academic appeals

Monitoring and Review

• PGR Liaison Forum: code of good practice
• Student complaints procedure
• Annual review of research degree provision: procedures