attend all final Boards of Examiner meetings except in exceptional circumstances endorse the outcome of the assessment process by signing the final results lists; offer comments and advice as appropriate; submit a written report annually to the Vice-Chancellor. The responsibilities of the Quality Directorate are to: appoint the external examiners via the External Examiner Committee provide and maintain a pro forma contract for the purpose; send out the generic induction pack; send a new examiner a copy of the report of the retiring external examiner; organise an annual external conference; examiners’ make travel arrangements as requested by visiting external examiners; arrange for payment of expenses and examining fees; send out copies of the external reports to the Dean, Sub-Dean (Quality examiners’ Enhancement), Head of Department, Academic Director, Field Administrator, QA Manager at collaborative partner (as appropriate); prepare synoptic summaries of external comments for consideration by the examiners’ Teaching Quality and Standards Committee. The responsibilities of the Course Leader (through the Field Administrator) are to: provide a completed nomination form (NOM01) for the appointment of a prospective external examiner for the Faculty Teaching Quality and Standards Committee and associated Faculty Academic Board; provide the external examiner with up-to-date information about the course and associated course regulations, together with a schedule of assessments and of the main dates when examiners are expected to consider work; draft assessment tasks and copies of all students’ examination papers together with details of assessment criteria; send to the external examiner samples of work, graded and annotated by internal students’ examiners as appropriate, together with full results sheets which demonstrate how the sample of scripts relates to the population from which they have been selected; provide for the Board of Examiners statistical material on the performance of the students under consideration; provide the agreed results for every student in every unit and the profile of examiners’ results for each student under consideration; produce minutes of the meetings of Boards of Examiners; draft a response to the comments of the external examiner for the Dean;
attend all final Boards of Examiner meetings except in exceptional circumstances endorse the outcome of the assessment process by signing the final results lists; offer comments and advice as appropriate; submit a written report annually to the Vice-Chancellor. The responsibilities of the Quality Directorate are to: appoint the external examiners via the External Examiner Committee provide and maintain a pro forma contract for the purpose; send out the generic induction pack; send a new examiner a copy of the report of the retiring external examiner; organise an annual external examiners’ conference; make travel arrangements as requested by visiting external examiners; arrange for payment of expenses and examining fees; send out copies of the external examiners’ reports to the Dean, Sub-Dean (Quality Enhancement), Head of Department, Academic Director, Field Administrator, QA Manager at collaborative partner (as appropriate); prepare synoptic summaries of external examiners’ comments for consideration by the Teaching Quality and Standards Committee. The responsibilities of the Course Leader (through the Field Administrator) are to: provide a completed nomination form (NOM01) for the appointment of a prospective external examiner for the Faculty Teaching Quality and Standards Committee and associated Faculty Academic Board; provide the external examiner with up-to-date information about the course and associated course regulations, together with a schedule of assessments and of the main dates when examiners are expected to consider students’ work; draft assessment tasks and copies of all examination papers together with details of assessment criteria; send to the external examiner samples of students’ work, graded and annotated by internal examiners as appropriate, together with full results sheets which demonstrate how the sample of scripts relates to the population from which they have been selected; provide for the Board of Examiners statistical material on the performance of the students under consideration; provide the examiners’ agreed results for every student in every unit and the profile of results for each student under consideration; produce minutes of the meetings of Boards of Examiners; draft a response to the comments of the external examiner for the Dean;
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