Supporting Information: Careers Service
This is version 1.0 of the Supporting Information for the Careers Service, which applies from the 2026/27 academic year onwards. This supporting information is owned by the Careers Service.
Contents
- Purpose and Scope
- Supplementary Information - Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes
- Supplementary Information - Assessment Policy and Procedures
- Other Supplementary Information
1. Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this supporting information is to set out principles and procedures which relate to assessment in the Careers Service.
The supporting information underpins and should be read alongside the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes and the Assessment Policy & Procedures.
2. Supplementary Information – Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes
The Careers Service has no information that is supplementary and complementary to the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes.
3. Supplementary Information – Assessment Policy & Procedures
This section contains information supplementary to the Assessment Policy & Procedures (AP&P) where Schools are required to develop and define their approach.
3.1 Setting and Approval of Assessment Methods (AP&P section 4)
Module Leaders design each assessment in advance of each academic year. They are developed using feedback from students, Module Moderators and External Examiners to support fairness, clarity and consistency. All assessments are approved through the Career Services Taught Student Education Committee.
3.2 Registration for Assessments (AP&P section 5)
Resits assessments are available for all modules at the next available opportunity in August.
For information and/or guidance on rules of any caps on the number of credits students are able to resit at any one opportunity, students should liaise with their parent school.
3.3 Submission of Coursework (AP&P section 6)
In the Careers Service submission deadlines are set in accordance with the AP&P Section 6.3.2.
All assessment offered by the Careers Service can have an extension, if approved through the appropriate route, i.e. via parent schools. Any deviation to this will be clearly communicated in the relevant assessment brief.
3.4 Late Submission of Coursework (AP&P section 6.4)
All assessments offered by the Careers Service may be submitted late. Any late submissions will incur penalties in line with provision described in Assessment Policy & Procedures section 6.4.
3.5 Resubmission of Own Work (AP&P section 6.5)
There may be circumstances where an initial submission is intended to help develop a second, usually larger, piece of work. When this is the case, the resubmission of work is allowed in the Careers Service. Students will receive specific instructions in the Assessment Brief and/or by the Module Leader where this is the case. If there are other instances where students feel that a further exception is justified, they must have specific written permission from the University staff concerned.
3.6 Use of Systems to Identify Academic Integrity (AP&P section 7.2)
A student’s Parent School and not the Careers Service will provide students with an introduction to Turnitin during their first semester of study to support their understanding of academic integrity.
3.7 Referencing (AP&P section 7.4)
For modules in the Careers Service students should use the official University of Leeds version of the Harvard referencing style.
Guidance on how to source citations within the text and how to reference different types of material is available on the referencing pages of the Library website. Marking of all submitted coursework will be informed by this guidance and will correspond to the style outlined on the Library’s referencing website pages.
3.8 Assessment Marking and Marks (AP&P section 8.1.3)
Assessment criteria will clearly specify the approach to assessing technical accuracy in written expression and, where appropriate, the approach will be referenced in assessment rubrics.
Assessment criteria will make clear if, how and where accuracy in written expression and presentation are taken in account in marking and this will relate to stated learning outcomes. All coursework will be marked primarily on content and clarity, and marks will not be specifically allocated for spelling, grammar and punctuation where the intended meaning of the coursework is clearly communicated and presented coherently. The exception to this is where technical accuracy in written expression is stated as a learning outcome of the programme. For these programmes spelling, grammar and punctuation will be included in the marking criteria and marks allocated accordingly. Students with specific learning difficulties are provided with labels to attach to assignments at the point of submission. Assessors take account of a student’s specific learning difficulties when grading work and in their provision of developmental feedback
3.9 Moderation: Check Marking and Double Marking (AP&P section 8.2)
Where there is more than one marker on a module, a process of standardisation will take place to ensure marks across the cohort are of an equivalent standard. Marking takes place as follows:
- Level 2 Assessed work weighted equal to or greater than 10 credits are single marked, and check marked
- Level 3 Assessed work components weighted up to or equal to 20 credits are single-marked and check marked.
For work that is check-marked, this is undertaken by a reviewer who considers a sample of students’ work, along with the associated feedback sheets. This sample should be 20% of the total or 6 pieces of work and should be representative of the full range of marks including all fail grades. The reviewer may extend the scope of the sample in whatever ways they deem appropriate to ensure that marks are fairly allocated across the whole student group. Any change of marks must be discussed with the first marker and agreed between both parties.
3.10 Marks Return (AP&P section 8.3)
Marks/grades for all assessments taken in the Careers Service will be returned according to the time-frame defined in Assessment Policy & Procedure section 8.3, with no differences applied for projects or assessments taken during a formal examination period.
3.11 Penalties for Not Meeting Assessment Requirements (AP&P section 8.4)
Assessed work will be of a specified length. Students are permitted to go over the specified word limit by up to 10%. If students exceed the word limit by 10%, or more they will lose marks, see below. This is to prevent students gaining advantage by excess length. The specified word count includes all text and references, but it excludes the final bibliography and any appendices. Overuse of appendices should be avoided.
For work that exceeds the word limit, the following penalties will be applied:
Exceeds word limit by Marks to be deducted
10- 19.9% 5
20- 29.9% 10
30- 39.9% 15
40- 49.9% 20
If the word count exceeds the word limit by 50% or more, the mark awarded for the work will be a maximum of 20.
3.12 Feedback to Students (AP&P section 9)
The University has a number of principles relating to academic feedback with the aim that students are provided with:
- Feedback that is personal to the student and their work;
- Feedback that is constructive and helps the student understand how it relates to assessment criteria; and
- Feedback that is specific and designed to help the student see what they have done well and how they can improve.
Sometimes, individual feedback will be supplemented with generic feedback that can be provided more quickly. Generic feedback is given to all students about general performance in a particular assessment.
3.13 Timings of Assessment Committees (AP&P section 11.4)
The Careers Service operates Assessment Committees according to the University’s standard timelines.
3.14 Publication of Module Marks and Classifications (AP&P section 12)
In the Careers Service, once work has been assessed, provisional marks are published via the module area of Minerva and are also noted on the individual feedback provided to each student. These marks may be subject to change until final marks are confirmed.
4. Other Supplementary Information
The Careers Service has no further supplementary information.