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► Appeals Information
What Are Appeals?
The appeals process gives you a chance to appeal against your Board of Examiners’ progress decision. You must submit valid grounds (see below) and provide evidence that your situation was not or could not be fully understood.
Who Is Eligible?
You can only appeal if:
• The Board of Examiners did not know about mitigations that affected your academic performance and thus could not take them into account.
You should have informed the Examiners before they met about any such mitigation and you will need to present good reasons for not having done so (if you could have told the Examiners, your appeal will not be considered unless there are exceptional circumstances)
• The Board of Examiners’ decision might have been different if there had not been an administrative irregularity or failure in procedure, for example a piece of work was lost by your department.
You cannot appeal simply because you disagree with your marks, i.e. if your only grounds for appeal are that you think you should have done better, or that your work was wrongly marked, your appeal will not be accepted. You would not be able to graduate until December if your appeal is in July.
For more information about what appeals are and whether you are eligible
Read the Appeals Advice Direct
Read the Code of Practice on Primary Appeals
Will I be notified?
If your progress decision is ‘Fail and withdraw’, ‘Internal Repeat’ or ‘Award Alternative Qualification’ you will be sent a letter to notify you of your right to appeal and the deadline for doing so. It is up to each student to ensure that they promptly check their marks, university portal and post from the University. Do not delay as the appeal deadlines are very strict and the chance for an extension is very limited.
So what do I need to do?
You need to get a copy of the appeals form and guidance notes from the ARC in the Guild, or from Academic Services (Aston Webb Building) or online here.
Read the Appeal Code of Practice and use the guidance notes to fill in the form. Your appeal form needs to be self-explanatory, in particular the summary section, as in the first stages of the appeal process the decision as to whether you should have an appeal will be based on your form and the school’s response, at this stage you will not have the opportunity to explain your case in person. You must include evidence with your appeal form and submit it by the deadline.
You should speak to your Personal Tutor or Welfare Tutor in your School, ask for their advice and if the School will support your appeal – you also need to work out with your Personal Tutor what you want to do and whether the School thinks this is practical and allowed within the University Regulations. You need to be clear and realistic about what you want from the appeal, i.e. to re-sit a module internally or externally.
Your fully completed form with all supporting evidence must be submitted to the Appeals Coordinator in Student Conduct & Appeals (Aston Webb Building) by the deadline.
Deadline date for postgraduate Primary Appeals is Friday 11th November 2011
For all students with progress decisions the deadline stipulated above to appeal by will apply.
Students whose progress decision is either 'Fail and Withdraw', 'Internal Repeat' or 'Award Alternative Qualification', and all postgraduate research students will receive a letter from Academic and Student Administration confirming their progress decision and clearly stating their "personal" appeal deadline. The term ‘University working days’ (as used in these letters) refers to all weekdays (Monday - Friday) except English public holidays and University closed days click here to view the University Calendar.
If you need to check the deadline of your appeal you will need to contact Student Conduct and Appeals
Telephone: 0121 414 7684
Email: appeals@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Please note your appeal will be considered by the Prima Facie Panel and you will be advised about the outcome in writing as soon as possible. It can take between six to eight weeks for the outcome to be known.
The ARC
If you are enquiring about an appeal:-
Once your form is completed you can email the ARC your completed version for feedback or alternatively book an appointment with an advisor for feedback.
To do so or if you have any other queries then you contact the ARC:
Telephone: 0121 251 2400,
Email: thearc@guild.bham.ac.uk
