Special Cases Committee
Membership 2023/24
| The Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education (Chair) |
Professor Lorenzo Frigerio |
| The Vice-Chancellor (ex officio) |
Professor Stuart Croft |
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One of the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellors within the Education Executive |
Professor Andrew Clark |
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The Academic Registrar |
Adam Child |
| The Chief External Examiner | Professor Steve King (2026) |
| The External Advisory Consultant (Quality & Standards) | Professor David Lamburn |
| The Director of Education Policy and Quality | Dan Derricott |
The year after a member’s name indicates that their term of office expires on 31 July of that year.
Terms of Reference
1. To consider and determine definitively on behalf of the Senate cases referred to it by Boards of Examiners:
(a) that a ruling is required by a Board of Examiners concerning the application and interpretation of regulations, rules or conventions relating to the assessment, examination or awards on taught courses;
(b) that a ruling is required by a Board of Examiners where individual student circumstances mean that existing regulations, rules or conventions cannot be used to reach an outcome;
(c) that in the opinion of a Board of Examiners and its External Examiner(s) the application of regulations, rules or conventions would result in an anomalous outcome for a student;
(d) that, for exceptional reasons, the published decisions of Boards of Examiners be changed;
(e) that students be permitted to progress, continue or graduate notwithstanding provisions within regulations, rules or conventions in cases where to do otherwise would result in manifest unfairness to the student.
2. In cases where Boards of Examiners seek guidance and/or refer individual student cases to the Committee, to ensure that regulations, rules and conventions are applied consistently and properly.
Reporting Structure
The Special Cases Committee reports to the Senate Sub-Group.
Click here to see a diagrammatic representation of the Committee Structure.
Secretariat
Secretary: Kim Robinson, Deputy Director and Head of Education Policy and Governance, Education Policy and Quality
Assistant Secretary: Dr Lynne Bayley, Senior Policy Advisor (Assessment)
Meetings
Dates to be confirmed.