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Quality at Queen Margaret University

Below is an alphabetical list of useful links to help you find what you need in the Quality website.

Please note the following key links:

Regulations: www.qmu.ac.uk/quality/gr/default.htm
Forms: www.qmu.ac.uk/quality/fm/externalExaminer.htm
External examiners: www.qmu.ac.uk/quality/ee/default.htm
Research degrees and research ethics: www.qmu.ac.uk/quality/rs/default.htm

Academic structure

Admissions Regulations

Annual programme monitoring - procedure

Annual programme monitoring - forms

APL / RPL - procedures (select Print Layout view)

APL / RPL - forms

Appeals procedure

Application form for research degree

Application procedure for taught courses

Assessment procedures (guidance on how to set and process assessments)

Assessment Regulations (University-wide regulations with immediate effect from 2012-2013)

Awards of the University (list of degree types and criteria)

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Boards of Examiners

Bursary Competition (PhD Studentships)

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Calendars (University calendar and list of committee dates)

Centre for Academic Practice

Code of Conduct (student)

Code of Practice for Research Degrees

Collaborations - list of partners

Collaborations - operational manual

Collaborations - regulations

Committees - summary of committee approval processes

Committees - contacts

Committees - structure

Committees - papers and minutes (Intranet link)

Complaints procedure (students)

Computer Use - general

Credit Rating procedure (for external programmes not awarded by QMU)

CV template - academic staff

CV form - research degree examiners

CV form - research degree supervisors

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Data protection

Dates - see Academic Calendars and Committee Dates

Degrees (list of degree types and criteria for award)

Disabled Students Adviser

Disability Equality Scheme

Discipline Procedure (students)

Distance Learning (Essential Guide to)

Documentation for QA

Double marking policy - see Assessment Regulations section 5

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Effective Learning Service

Enhancement Themes

E-portfolios

Equal opportunities

E-repository (QMU research outputs)

Essential Guide to Distance Learning

Executive Board (Intranet link)

Extenuating circumstances - form

Extenuating circumstances - guidelines

Extenuating Circumstances Panel - remit

External Examiners - forms (appointment, extension, reallocation)

External Examiners - handbook

External Examiners - induction materials for new examiners

External Examiners - regulations

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Feedback on assessment

Fees

Fitness to Practise Policy

Forms - external examiners

Forms - module evaluation and annual monitoring

Forms - new programmes and modules

Forms - professional doctorates

Forms - RPL / APL

Forms - research degrees

Forms - research ethics

Forms - validation and review

Freedom of Information

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Good Practice website

Good scholarship

Grade criteria - see appendix to Assessment Regulations

Graduate attributes - postgraduate

Graduate attributes - undergraduate

Graduate attributes - summary of undergraduate attributes for use with PDP

Graduation

Guidelines - Assessment and feedback

Guidelines - Extenuating circumstances

Guidelines - Personal Academic Tutors

Guidelines - Plagiarism

Guidelines - PhD examination

Guidelines - Professional Doctorate examination

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Student Handbooks (programme and School level) - see relevant WebCT administration sites

Harvard Referencing Guide

Health and Safety Committee (Intranet site)

Health and Safety Policy

The Hub (Virtual Learning Environment)

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Induction

Information Services

Intellectual Property Policy

International student support

International Student Exchanges

Internationalisation Committee (Intranet site)

IT - QuickStart Guide

IT - Wireless

IT Workshop (LRC) opening hours

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Joint Boards of Studies

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Knowledge Exhange

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Late submission form

Late submission guidelines

Learning and Teaching Panel

Library website

Library catalogue

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Management of programmes

Management structure

Marking and moderation policy - see Assessment Regulations section 5

Marks and performance - criteria for each grade - see appendix to Assessment Regulations

Masters degree regulations

Matriculation

Membership of committees - see individual Intranet sites under Governance

Mission statement

Module change form / new module form

Module descriptor form

Module descriptor instructions

Module evaluation form

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National Student Survey

New programmes - process for development and approval

New Students Induction

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Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

Order of Council (Privy Council order establishing QMU)

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Partners - general information

Partners - list of partners

Partners - operational manual for collaborative programmes

Peer observation

Personal Academic Tutoring policy - draft policy

Personal Academic Tutoring - template for initial meeting

Personal Acadmeic Tutoring - template for subsequent meetings

Personal Academic Tutoring - student leaflet

Personal Academic Tutoring - new staff guide from 2012-2013

Personal Development Planning

PhD - forms

PhD by Published Work

PhD regulations

PhD Studentships

Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism prevention and advice (CAP wiki)

Policies (general)

Portal - QM:u Portal (Student Portal)

Postgraduate Framework

Probationary Assessment guidance for students

Professional Doctorate - forms

Professional Doctorate - regulations

Programme Leaders' Handbook

Programme management (responsibilities, committees, rules)

Programme planning

Programme specification - template

Programme specifications for current validated programmes

Public Information on Quality

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QAA Code of Practice

QAA review reports

Quality Assurance Handbook

Quality Enhancement

QELTA Strategy

QM:u Portal (Student Portal)

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Referencing Guide (Harvard)

Registry

Research Degrees (forms)

Research Degrees (general)

Research Degrees Code of Practice

Research Degrees Panel (intranet site)

Research ethics

Research Ethics Panel (intranet site)

Research Governance

Research Strategy Committee (intranet site)

Review - see Validation and Review

RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning Arts, Social Sciences and Management): contact Dawn Martin - dmartin1@qmu.ac.uk

RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning Health Sciences) Guide and Forms

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School Academic Boards (intranet site)

Semester dates

Senate (intranet site)

Senate - standing orders

Service Area Review, procedure and guidance for panels

Short course in learning, teaching and assessment

Student Complaints procedure

Student Discipline procedure

Student (effective) learning service

Student Experience Committee (intranet site)

Student Parliament

Student Portal - QM:u Portal

Student Services

Student Survey results 2012

Students' Union

Study Skills - QMSkills for Study

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Taught Postgraduate Framework

Thinking of Leaving

Tuition fees

TurnitinUK advice

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Undergraduate graduate attributes

University Court - standing orders

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Validation and review - regulations

Validation and review - forms and templates

Virtual Learning Environment - the Hub

Vivas - guidance for PhD examiners

Vivas - guidance for Professional Doctorate examiners

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WebCT - see the Hub

Withdrawal of programme

Write & Cite QMU Guide to Harvard Referencing

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You said, we are listening

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