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A-Z of Policies

The A-Z search below has been designed to provide easy access to University Academic policies that relate to the work of the Academic Administration Division. (Note: University policies only. Divisions, Faculties, Departments and Colleges may have their own on certain specific matters, although these should not be inconsistent with University policies.) If you have difficulties finding a University policy, please contact Education Policy support.

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• E
• F
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A

• Academic Good Practice: See Plagiarism
• Academic dress, Regulations relating to
• Academic Integrity in Research
• Access - relating to working with schools and colleges:
  • Access agreement (with the Office for Fair Access)
  • Current activities
• Access, relating to disability: See Disability
• Accommodation
• Admission to degree
• Admissions, Undergraduate
  • Code of practice
  • Common framework for colleges, faculties and departments
  • English language requirement: undergraduate
  • Entrance requirements
  • Offa agreement
  • Strategy - see section V of Strategic Plan
  • Written work and test requirements
• Admissions, Graduate
  • Application and admissions
  • Complaints procedures
  • English Language Requirement
  • Strategy – see section V of Strategic Plan
  • Visas and immigration
• Adoption Leave, Student: See Student Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
• Aegrotat
  • See also Illness
• Animal research: See Research involving animals
• Antedating, of admission and of residence
  • Residence requirements
  • Dispensation from
• Appeals
  • Appeals from decisions of the Proctors and Examiners
  • Statutes
  • Student Appeal Panel
• Assessment
  • All levels:
  • Examination Regulations
  • Guidance for DPhil/MLitt/MSc/MSt Law/MPhil Examiners
  • Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment
  
  
  • Graduate only:
  • Notes relating to the examination of research degrees
  • Policy and guidance on Graduate taught courses, section 11 (for academics)
  • Policy and guidance on research degrees, section 12 (for academics)
  • Submission of Bodleian copies (theses)
  
  
  • Undergraduate only
  • Policy and guidance on Undergraduate teaching and learning, section 11
• Assessors
  • Examination Regulations
  • Graduates as assessors – Notes of Guidance on Examinations and Assessment, section 5.1.2 and Annexe F
  • Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 3

B

• Blind double-marking: See Independent double-marking
• Blind students: See Visually impaired candidates
• Bologna Process
• Bribery and Fraud Policy
• Bursary, Oxford Opportunity

C

• Calculator, in examinations
• Chairmen of Examiners
• Child Protection and vulnerable adults (PDF)
• Childcare
• Class and pass lists
• Classification - see Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 5
• Codes of Practice (Personnel Services), full listing of all codes for both staff and students
• Code of Practice for Supervision: See Supervision
• Collaboration
• Collections: See Policy and guidance on undergraduate teaching
• Common framework for colleges, faculties and departments: See Admissions, Undergraduate
• Complaints
  • relating to academic matters
  • relating to undergraduate admissions
  • relating to graduate admissions
  • relating to equal opportunities
  • relating to harassment, including bullying
• Computers, use of in examinations
• Conflict of interest
• Confidentiality, student health and welfare (PDF)
  
• Confirmation of Status
  • Policy and guidance on research degrees, section 8
  • Forms
  • DPhil general
  • DPhil Medical Sciences
  • Degree of Doctor of Medicine
  • Timing of confirmation of status
• Copyright licences
• Course structure, see Policy and guidance on Introduction of new courses and major changes to existing courses

D

• Data Protection
  
• Dates of Term
• Declaration of authorship: See Plagiarism
• Degree days
• Deprivation
• Dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries in examinations
• Disability - see also Special Examination Arrangements
  • Access guide
  • Adjustments in course and examination arrangements
  • Disability Equality Duty
  • Disclosure of disability form
  • EPSC guidance on provision
  • Examination
  • Forms for examinations
  • General information for students
• Discipline - see also Student Disciplinary Panel
  • Examinations, Proctors' Disciplinary Regulations for Candidates in Examinations
  • Disciplinary Regulations for Candidates in Examinations
  • University Statutes
• Dispensations
  • Areas where applications are the responsibility of EPSC rather than the Proctors
  • Forms
• Disposal of Items from University Collections
• Distance learning: See Flexible and distributed learning
• Drug misuse (Proctors' office)
• Dyspraxia: See Disability and Special Examination Arrangements
• Dyslexia - see Disability and Special Examination Arrangements

E

• E-learning
  • Policy and guidance on Flexible and distributed learning
  • ICT strategy, paragraphs 208-211
• English language requirements: See Admissions
• Equal opportunities policy (integrated equality policy)
• Erasmus, Socrates (exchanges)
  • Policy: See Collaboration
  • Practical arrangements
• Erasmus-Mundus: See Collaboration
• Examinations, Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment
• Examiners
• Examination conventions, approval and publication of
• Examination regulations
• Examinations, conduct of
• Examinations, Proctors' Administrative Regulations for
• Exchanges: See Collaboration
• Extension of time
  • Maximum time allowed for Honours
  • Forms
  • DPhil students
  • Information for students
• External Examiners Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 4
  • Appointment of
  • Attendance at statutory meetings
  • For Graduate degrees, see Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 12.7
  • Guidelines for External Examiners reports
  • Schedule of Examiners' and Supervisors' Fees

F

• Faculty, membership
• Fees
  • Classification of students for fees purposes
  • Fee levels
• FHS statistics - number and proportion of students achieving each class
• Flexible and distributed learning, Policy and guidance
• Flu: See Pandemic
• Fraud

G

• Graduates (See also Supervision)
  • Graduates as assessors, Notes of Guidance on Examinations and Assessment, Annexe F and section 5.1.2
  • Policy and guidance on provision for graduate taught courses and research degrees
  • Providing tutorials to undergraduates, see Policy and guidance on undergraduate teaching and learning
  • Skills training: See Skills, research and transferable
  • Well-found laboratory, permission to work in

H

• Harassment, Code of Practice
• Home/EU student, classification for fees purposes
• Housing, see Accommodation
• Human Remains Held by the University of Oxford's Museums
• Human Remains of Indigenous Australian People

I

• Illegible scripts
• Illness
  • Examination Regulation
  • Medical incapacity
    
    • Proctor’s Office
    • Statutes
  • Regulations for the Medical Board
• Immigration
• Independent double-marking, see Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 5
• Influenza, Planning for a Pandemic
• Institutional Audit
  • 2009 audit
  • Review report from March 2004
• Intellectual Property Policy (Research Services)
• Invigilation
• ICT in teaching and learning – see e-Learning
• IT, regulations on the use of IT facilities
• IT, rules for University users

J

• Joint degrees - see Collaboration

L

• Lapsing of research degree students
• Late Entries
• Late alteration of options
• Learning and Teaching, strategy, see section I of Strategic Plan, 2008-9 to 2012-13
• Libraries, Regulations Relating to the use of the Facilities of the Oxford University Library Services
• Licensing - see Copyright licences

M

• Marking, see Policy and guidance on examination and assessment, section 5
• Maternity Leave, Student: see Student Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
• Matriculation
• Meningitis
• Migration
  • Examination Regulations
  • Forms

N

• National Student Survey
• New courses and major changes to existing courses, Policy and guidance
• Non-appearance at an examination
• North Commission

O

• Offa agreement - see Admissions
• Overseas travel, safety
• Overseas student, classification for fees purposes
• Oxford Student Surveys

P

• Pandemic, Planning for
• Paternity Leave, Student: see Student Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
• Permanent Private Halls: Report of Review Panel 2007
• Personal Development Planning (Skills Portal)
• Placement learning - see Collaboration
• Plagiarism:
  • Declaration of authorship for theses, extended essays and projects
  • Disciplinary regulations (Proctors' Office)
  • Turnitin
  • University definition, and how to avoid plagiarism
• Preparation for Learning and Teaching at Oxford
• Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in H.E
• Probationer Research Student, regulation
• Professional development, courses and seminars
• Projects and dissertations - see Assessment
• Public interest disclosure
• Publication and authorship - see Research, academic integrity

Q

• Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Code of Practice
• Quality Assurance Handbook

R

• Readmission and Migration
• Recognised Independent Centres
• Recognised students
  • Examination Regulations
• Recording of lectures
• Reinstatement of research degree students
• Religious Festivals and Holidays Coinciding with Examinations
• Remission of university fees
• Research, academic integrity in
• Research activities involving human participants
• Research involving animals
• Research Integrity
• Residence

S

• Sabbatical leave
• Safety policies
• Safety in Fieldwork
• Scaling, see Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 5
• Senior Student Status
• Sickness - see Illness
• Skills, research and transferable
• Special Educational Needs and Disability (SENDA) - see Disability and Special Examination Arrangements
• Strategic Plan, 2008-9 to 2012-13
• Special Examination Arrangements
  • Adjustments
  • Examination Regulations
  • Forms
• Student Disciplinary Panel
• Student Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
• Student statistics
• Sub fusc, Regulations relating to academic dress
• Supervision
  • Code of Practice for Supervision -
    • Continuing Education
    • Humanities
    • MPLS
    • Medical Sciences
    • Social Sciences
  • Responsibilities of supervisor and student
  • See Policy and guidance on research degrees (section 4 and 5), and on graduate taught courses (section 4 and 5)
• Suspension of status
  • Information for research students
  • Regulations for research students
  • Policy and guidance for departments on undergraduate learning and teaching (section 6) ,graduate taught courses (section 9), and on research degrees (section 10)

T

• Teaching development programme
• Teaching Excellence Award Scheme - contact relevant division
• Transfer
  • Transfer to DPhil status, Policy and guidance on research degrees, section 8
  • Timing of transfer
• Terms, number and length of
• Tutorials, see Policy and guidance on Undergraduate Learning and Teaching

U

• Undergraduate teaching and learning, Policy and guidance on

V

• Viva Voce:
  • see Policy and guidance on examinations and assessment, section 5
  • Examination Regulations - see also regulations for individual courses in Examination Regulations
  • non-appearance at a viva - Examination Regulation 14.5
• Visiting students
  • Admission
  • Examination Regulation
• Visually impaired candidates - see Special Examination Needs

W

• Widening Participation - see Access
• Withdrawal from Examinations and Non-appearance
• Withdrawal of research degree students
• Word limits, exceeding
• Work-based learning - see Collaboration

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