[Academic] External Examiner

[Nigel Langford]

Dear All,

Peter Parbrook will be completing his stint as External Examiner in June 2014 and so we will need to appoint a new external examiner. This may seem a bit early to be thinking about a new External Examiner but the University now requires that the names and details of our External Examiners be made known to the students through the Student Handbook.  In addition to this the QAA has updated its guidelines on the appointment of External Examiners and indicates that we must avoid potential conflicts of interest. These are defined as

1) a member of a governing body or committee of the appointing institution or one of its collaborative partners, or a current employee of the appointing institution or one of its collaborative partners

2) anyone with a close professional, contractual or personal relationship with a member of staff or student involved with the programme of study

3) anyone required to assess colleagues who are recruited as students to the programme of study


4) anyone who is, or knows they will be, in a position to influence significantly the future of students on the programme of study


5) anyone significantly involved in recent or current substantive collaborative research activities with a member of staff closely involved in the delivery, management or assessment of the programme(s) or modules in question


6) former staff or students of the institution unless a period of five years has elapsed and all students taught by or with the external examiner have completed their programme(s)

7) a reciprocal arrangement involving cognate programmes at another institution


8) the succession of an external examiner by a colleague from the examiner's home department and institution


9) the appointment of more than one external examiner from the same department of the same institution
3)

Given point 7 I would be grateful if you could let me know whether you act as an external examiner for another university, that way I can strike those universities off my list for potential examiners. Also if you have any suggestions then please let me know and I will take the names to the teaching committee. We should also note that the Institute of Physics requires at least one External Examiner come from a Physics Department.

Thanks

Nigel
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