Supplementary Notes for Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes

The following supplementary notes provide details of the timeframes for the implementation of specific elements of the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes, as approved by Senate in May 2024 and any further amendment approved henceforth.

These supplementary notes are owned by the Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team. Please contact [email protected] for any matters related to these notes.

1. Taught Programme Structures

1.1 Adherence to those clauses within the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes relating to taught programme structures (i.e., 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6) will be implemented within the agreed timeframes for the re-specification of programmes under Curriculum Redefined (and recorded with school/teaching unit and faculty Portfolio Development Plans).

1.2 Credit weightings for programme structures being taught out as Curriculum Redefined structures are phased in are provided within the specifications published on the programme catalogue

2. Progression and Award of Ordinary Bachelor Degrees

2.1 Students who have registered with the University prior to 2024–25 academic year may be permitted to progress under the arrangements specified for progression on an Ordinary Bachelor Degree, on the recommendation of the relevant Assessment Committee. The credit requirements for the progression within, and the award of, the Ordinary Bachelor Degree are specified under 11 of the Rules for Award: 2023–24 academic year.

2.2 All other students will progress according to the requirements specified within the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes. This means that, unless otherwise agreed in relation to the timeframe for the implementation of new programme structures under 1 above, for those students registered from the 2024-25 academic year the Ordinary Bachelor Degree will only be available as an Intermediate Concluding Qualification and will not be available as a target qualification or progression route.

3. Classification Algorithm

3.1 The University’s revised degree classification algorithm, as approved by Senate in July 2022, has been incorporated within the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes. The previous classification algorithm as specified in the Rules for Award: 2023–24 (iteration A) will continue to apply to all students who have either:
- commenced their programme at Leeds before the 2022-23 academic year, OR
- commenced their final year before the 2024/25 academic year.

3.2 The classification algorithm as specified within the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes will apply to all other students.

3.3 Details of how this will relate to specific entry cohorts can be provided on request by emailing the operations assessment team at [email protected].

4. Medical and Mitigating Circumstances

4.1 Provision under 7.3.4 of the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes which allowed the application of medical and mitigating circumstances in degree classification was withdrawn following the academic year of 2024/25.

4.2 Progression and Awards Boards will apply medical and mitigating circumstances in degree classification for students who have been granted the mitigation from the relevant School Special Circumstances Committee prior to its removal from the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes. Where compensation has already been applied at the module level the designated Assessment Committee must be satisfied, on the recommendation of the School Special Circumstances Committee, that the circumstances warrant additional consideration beyond that already applied.

4.3 School Special Circumstances Committee will no longer grant application of medical and mitigating circumstances in degree classification for students from the academic year of 2025-26.