TEI Board Decisions: Recommending Awards to Durham 

TEI Boards of Examiners are responsible for confirming progression decisions. TEI Boards of Examiners also make recommendations for awards to the Durham Overarching Board of Examiners where either: 

• students have achieved enough credit to leave the programme with their chosen award; 
• students have achieved enough credit to leave the programme with an alternative award; 
• students have failed modules, have exhausted any resit opportunities, and cannot progress, and are therefore required to exit with an alternative award. 

TEI Boards of Examiners are not able to recommend classifications; this remains the responsibility of the Durham Board of Examiners. 

TEIs are required to provide a range of information following the meeting of their Board of Examiners in order for the Durham Board of Examiners to consider a student for an award. See our Responsibilities of TEI Boards of Examiners for details. 

Compensation 

Any student is entitled to gain credits by compensation (to the maximum values specified in the relevant Core Regulations, and summarised above) provided that: 

• a mark of not less than either 30% (undergraduate) or 40% (postgraduate) has been obtained in each of the modules to be compensated; 
• the overall average for all modules taken, including the module(s) to be compensated, is either at least 40% (undergraduate), or at least 50% (postgraduate); 
• the achievement of the learning outcomes of the programme is not compromised by failure in the module(s) concerned. The programme regulations will indicate any module(s) which may not be passed by compensation. 

The actual mark received for modules passed by compensation will be taken forward to the averaging process for the classification of the degree and will be entered on the student’s academic transcript. 

Serious Adverse Circumstances 

Serious Adverse Circumstances may be taken into account when considering whether students have achieved sufficient credit to be recommended to the Durham Overarching Board of Examiners. See our guidance on page Serious Adverse Circumstances for more information.  

Full details of the credit requirements for the different programmes within the Common Awards Scheme are detailed within the relevant Core Regulations. The regulations on compensation are similarly defined in the relevant Core Regulations. The information presented below provides a summary of the total number of credits a student must gain, subject to any specific requirements in the programme regulations.  

Undergraduate Programmes  

Subject to any specific requirements in the programme regulations, students must gain credits as follows: 

* may be 340 credits, if student failed 20 credits at Level 4. 

Graduate Programmes  

Subject to any specific requirements in the programme regulations, students must gain credits as follows: 

Postgraduate Programmes 

Subject to any specific requirements in the programme regulations, students must gain credits as follows: