Programme Specification and Regulations 2011-2012 - EMFSS Old Regulations

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1. University of London International ProgrammesProgramme Specification and Regulations for Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences (Old Regulations)
2. Important information regarding the Programme Specification and Regulations
3. Programme Specification
4. Detailed Regulations
   1. 1. Structures of the programmes
   2. 2. Credit transfer and accreditation of prior learning
   3. 3. Registration
   4. 4. Assessment for the programme
   5. 5. Number of attempts permitted at an examination
   6. 6. Assessment offences and penalties
   7. 7. Progression within the programme
   8. 8. Schemes of award
   9. 9. Receiving the final Diploma and Diploma Supplement
   10. 10. Fees and refunds
   11. 11. Transfer of registration
   12. 12. Students with specific access requirements
   13. 13. Complaints, suspension and termination of registration
5. Annex A: Structures - Degrees
6. Annex A: Structures - Diplomas for Graduates
7. Annex A: Structures - Diploma in Economics and Diploma in Social Sciences
8. Annex A: Structures - Selection Groups
9. Annex B - Syllabuses for Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences
10. Annex B - Laws syllabuses
11. Annex C: Credits and accreditation of prior learning
12. Annex C: Table of Automatic Accreditation of Prior Learning 2011-12
13. Annex D: Scheme of award
14. Annex E: Assessment Criteria
15. Glossary of terms
16. Related documents and other sources of information
17. Corrections

5. Number of attempts permitted at an examination

5.1 (GR)

A student who fails to satisfy the Examiners in an examination, and who has yet to satisfy the conditions to be considered for the relevant award, may be permitted or required to re-sit the examination up to a maximum number of attempts.

5.2

A course which has been failed must be retaken at the next occasion that a student takes an examination, unless a student is able to discard the failed course for an alternative course.

5.3

The maximum number of attempts permitted at the examination for any course of a degree in the fields of Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences, or of the Diploma in Economics or Diploma in Social Sciences, is three. The maximum number of attempts permitted at the examination for any course of a Diploma for Graduates is two.

5.4

A student who is not yet eligible for their award is required to make a further attempt at all failed courses (provided the maximum number of attempts has not been exhausted and, in the case of a Diploma in Economics or Diploma in Social Sciences student, that they are continuing with the Diploma), or to substitute a failed course with an alternative course where the structure permits.

5.5

A degree student who fails a course at the third attempt, or a Diploma for Graduates student who fails a course at the second attempt, will not be permitted to make a further attempt at that course. The student may choose:

• to continue the degree or Diploma for which they are registered, substituting the failed course with an alternative course. This is only possible if the structure permits it, if the student can still meet all other requirements for the award and, in the case of a degree, if the failed course is not a prerequisite for a required course;
• (for degrees through the Standard Route only) to continue the degree, carrying the course as one of the two failed courses permitted by the conditions for awarding the degree, provided that the failed course is not a prerequisite for a required course and the student can still meet all other requirements for the award of the degree;
• to transfer to another degree or Diploma for Graduates governed by these Regulations, provided that the student satisfies the conditions for transfer.

If a student cannot satisfy the requirements for their award or the conditions for transfer, their registration will cease.

5.6

Once the Board of Examiners decides that a student of the degree or Diploma for Graduates is eligible for the respective award, the degree or Diploma will be awarded and the student will not be permitted to make any further attempts at any failed courses or to substitute any failed courses with alternative courses.

5.7

A student who progresses from the Diploma in Economics or the Diploma in Social Sciences to a degree under these Regulations must carry any fails with them if the courses at which the examination was failed are required on the degree to which they are transferring.

Failed courses which are available as options (i.e. they are not compulsory) on the degree to which they are transferring, must either be carried and re-taken (provided the student has not exhausted the maximum number of attempts) or may be changed to an alternative course. A student will be permitted the remaining number of attempts at the course concerned.

Failed courses which are not available on the degree to which the student is transferring must be discarded.

5.8

If a student registered for the Access route transfers to a degree under these Regulations having failed a course common to that degree, the fail will not count towards the total permitted number of attempts at that course.

5.9

All courses to which a student changes will count as new courses, except in the case of the following list. For new courses, the maximum three attempts will be permitted (or two attempts for the Diplomas for Graduates).

A student who changes to the following courses from the equivalent course given in square brackets below must take the new course(s) as a re-sit, if there are any permitted attempts remaining. The remaining number of attempts only will be permitted.

• EC3115 Monetary economics - [14 Monetary economics]
• GY2164 Economic geography - [45 Economic geography]
• IS2136 Information systems and organisations - [37 Computer-based information systems]
• IS2138 Information and communication technologies: principles and perspectives - [103 Elements of information and communication technologies]
• IS3110 Information and communication technology policy (half course) - [104 Information systems: evaluation and policy]
• IS3111 Information systems evaluation (half course) - [104 Information systems: evaluation and policy]
• IS3112 Sociology of information systems (half course) - [106 Sociology and ethics of information systems]
• IS3113 The ethics and politics of information systems (half course) - [106 Sociology and ethics of information systems]
• IS3159 Research project in information systems - [63 Information systems project]
• IS3139 Software engineering: theory and application - [61 Software engineering]
• MN3127 Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach - [33 Organisation theory]
• MN3141 Principles of marketing - [36 Marketing]
• PS1114 Democratic politics and the State - [80 Introduction to politics]
• SC2163 Sociological theory and analysis - [53 Sociological Theory]

Notes:

1. If a student changes to a new half course listed above, they must ensure that they supplement that half course with another to meet the requirements of the programme for which they are registered.
2. If a student changes from IS3111Information systems: evaluation and policy to both IS3110 Information and communication technology policy (half course) and IS3111 Information systems evaluation (half course), then any attempt at 104 Information systems: evaluation and policy will count towards the permitted attempts for both IS3110 Information and communication technology policy (half course) and IS3111 Information systems evaluation (half course).
3. If a student changes from 106 Sociology and ethics of information systems to both IS3112 Sociology of information systems (half course) and IS3113 The ethics and politics of information systems (half course), then any attempt at 106 Sociology and ethics of information systems will count towards the permitted attempts for both IS3112 Sociology of information systems (half course) and IS3113 The ethics and politics of information systems (half course).

5.10 (GR)

A student who enters an examination hall to attempt a written paper examination will be considered to have made an examination attempt. Absence from an examination will not count as an attempt.

5.11 (GR)

A student who receives a result of 'Pass', 'Fail' or 'Retired' at any examination will be considered to have made an attempt.

5.12 (GR)

A student may not make a further attempt at any examination already passed or for which specific APL or credit has been awarded.

5.13 (GR)

The mark awarded for a second or - in the case of the degrees and the Diploma in Economics and Diploma in Social Sciences - third attempt at an examination will supersede the mark previously awarded for that examination.