Education regulations, policy and guidance
To supplement the University's Charter, Acts, Statutes and Ordinances and University Strategy and Regulations, wide-ranging and detailed regulations, policy and guidance has been established, covering learning, teaching and assessment.
Strategy and Vision
Principles
Regulations
- Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes
- Annex 2: Regulations for Specific Programmes 2024/25 (PDF, 348kB)
- Annex 3: University Assessment Regulations 2024/25 (PDF, 360kB)
- Regulations and Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes
- Postgraduate Research Students Who Teach
- Regulations and Code of Practice for Educational Collaborative Arrangements
Quality Framework Policy and Guidance
- University Quality Team
- Policy for Education Action Planning (PDF, 226kB)
- Guidance for Conducting Annual Review of Taught Programmes (PDF, 297kB)
- Guidance for Conducting Annual Review of Research Programmes (PDF, 252kB)
- External Examining of taught programmes
- Policy for Programme Approval (PDF, 193kB)
- Transition Policy for Programme Simplification (PDF, 239kB)
- Policy for Periodic Programme Revalidation (PDF, 138kB)
- Policy on Unit Feedback From Students
- Code of Practice for Surveying UoB Students (PDF, 280kB)
- Policy for Taught Student Academic Representation (PDF, 222kB)
- PGR Student Representation Code of Practice (PDF, 151kB)
- Policy on Construction of Optional Unit Lists (PDF, 85kB)
Education Policy and Guidance
- Policy on Academic Integrity (PDF, 232kB)
- Policy for Academic Personal Tutoring (PDF, 103kB)
- Policy for Peer Observation (PDF, 87kB)
- Policy on Exam Script Access (PDF, 320kB)
- Policy on Study Costs for Taught Programmes 2025/26 (PDF, 128kB)
- Accompanying Guidance on Study Costs for taught programmes (PDF, 122kB)
- Guidance on the provision of material in advance of teaching (PDF, 502kB)
- Principal Tasks for Boards of Examiners (PDF, 159kB)
- Procedure where there is a suspicion of contract cheating (PDF, 251kB)
Accompanying Guidance on Study Costs for taught programmes (PDF, 122kB)
A repository of documents from the University's quality assurance framework is available on an internal SharePoint site.