An academic appeal is a request to review a decision made by an academic body responsible for deciding your academic progression, assessments and awards.
At Edge Hill these bodies are assessment and award boards, academic misconduct panels and fitness to practise panels.
Read the academic appeal procedure for full detailsYou must wait until you have received your formal results before submitting an appeal. Find out about when your formal results will be published.
Your appeal must meet one or more of the following grounds:
- procedural irregularity in the assessment process
- bias or the perception of bias.
Academic misconduct appeals
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of an academic misconduct panel decision, you have the right to appeal.
The grounds for appeal are:
- procedural irregularity in the academic misconduct process
- bias, or perceptions of bias at any point in the process
- exceptional mitigating circumstances, details of which were not previously available to the appropriate assessment board or academic misconduct panel.
Your panel outcome notification will detail your deadline for making an appeal.
Complete an academic misconduct appeal form
DBS appeals
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your DBS panel, you have the right to appeal for the decision to be reviewed.
Your appeal must meet one or more of the following grounds:
- procedural irregularity
- the outcome was unreasonable in all the circumstances
- you have new evidence which was, for good reason, previously not available to the panel.
Your outcome notification will contain the deadline for submitting your appeal.
Complete a DBS appeal formFitness to practise appeals
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of a fitness to practise panel decision, you have the right to appeal.
Your appeal must meet one or more of the following grounds:
- procedural irregularity in the fitness to practice process
- bias, or perceptions of bias at any point in the process
- new evidence has come to light which was not available at the time of the panel and which may now undermine the decision made
- the panel’s decision was unreasonable in all the circumstances.
Your panel outcome notification will detail your deadline for making an appeal.
Complete a fitness to practise appeal form
Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA)
When the University’s internal procedures are complete, we will send you a completion of procedures letter. This explains that if you are dissatisfied with the final outcome you can refer your matter to the OIA for review.
The OIA is an independent body whose role is to review individual complaints from students. You must complete the relevant University appeal process before contacting the OIA.
There are further details about the OIA Scheme on the OIA website.