{"id":1623,"date":"2018-09-12T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/?page_id=1623"},"modified":"2020-09-10T04:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:44:05","slug":"external-examiners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/external-examiners\/","title":{"rendered":"External Examiners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Examiners includes an External Examiner, whose role is to assure standards of assessment and to provide a further source of advice on the Programme.\u00a0 Students are sometimes invited to an informal meeting with the External Examiner in December\/January May\/June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The External Examiner system forms a key part of the University\u2019s quality assurance and enhancement mechanisms.\u00a0 External Examiners help to ensure that degrees awarded by the University are comparable in standard to those awarded at other Universities, although their content may differ. They also ensure that the assessment system is operated equitably and fairly in respect of the treatment and classification of students and that the University\u2019s regulations are consistently applied.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further guidance on the role of the external examiner and associated regulations can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/academic-services\/quality\/external-examining\">www.ed.ac.uk\/academic-services\/quality\/external-examining<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The External Examiner appointed for the programmes PROGRAMME for the ECA academic session 2018\/19 is detailed below:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"274\"><strong>Programme(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"151\"><strong>External Examiner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"176\"><strong>Institution<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"274\">Sound Design and Sound Design by Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"151\">Claudia Molitor<\/td>\n<td width=\"176\">City University, London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please note: <strong>**Students must not make direct contact with External Examiners**<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Examiners includes an External Examiner, whose role is to assure standards of assessment and to provide a further source of advice on the Programme.\u00a0 Students are sometimes invited to an informal meeting with the External Examiner in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/external-examiners\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">External Examiners<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1623\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}