External Examiner for Architecture Programme

Full-time IT & Technology

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that the standard of the degree is consistent with those awarded across the UK university system in the architecture discipline.
• Review and comment on the assessments for each module for which they are responsible, including the extent to which the assessments cover the syllabus and whether they enable candidates to demonstrate their achievement of the learning outcomes.
• Review if the standard of marking is satisfactory by scrutinising a sample of scripts for each module and, if necessary, a sample of coursework.
• Review and comment on the standards of achievements of candidates and the comparability of this achievement to standards elsewhere.
• Review and comment on the standards of proposed awards and their comparability to similar awards elsewhere.
• Make known any causes for concern in relation to academic standards achieved by candidates, the standards of modules and the standards of...