Academic Quality Unit

Your appointment as External Examiner to the University of Central Lancashire is subject to the University receiving evidence of your right to work in the UK. This evidence must be received prior to your appointment.

In order to comply with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all External Examiners must confirm their eligibility to work in the UK. External Examiners’ eligibility to work in the UK will have to be checked in person for all External Examiners upon appointment. As External Examiners do not normally attend the University immediately upon their appointment, the following process will apply:

1. All new External Examiners are asked to return with their completed nomination form a photocopy or scanned copy of documentation verifying their eligibility to work in the UK, as detailed in List A and List B on Right to Work Checklist on the government website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-work-checklist. Nomination forms submitted without this evidence will not be processed.
2. A member of our Academic Quality Unit staff will contact you upon appointment to arrange verification of your documentation.

Please note that we do not accept certified copies as evidence of right to work.

If you do not provide your right to work documents in accordance with the above procedure, the University will be unable to confirm your appointment as an External Examiner and will not be able to set you up on our systems and/or make any payment to you in relation to the role.

All new External Examiners are required to engage with the online induction training. We recognise that all External Examiners have had considerable experience in assessing student work at undergraduate or postgraduate level, however university systems of assessment do vary from one institution to another.

The aim of our External Examiners Induction training is to provide you with information regarding:

• The role and responsibilities of an External Examiner at the University of Central Lancashire.
• Gain an understanding of the systems and practices at UCLan.
• Information on the production on your annual report and how your report feeds into the University’s quality processes.
• Information on claiming fees and expenses.

Watch the induction training video.

• UK Quality Code for Higher Education, Advice and Guidance (External Expertise)
• Assessment Handbook
• Academic Regulations
• External Examiners Privacy Notice

Your feedback is extremely important to the University. Each year you will be asked to provide feedback in a variety of ways which include:

• Feedback on draft assessment briefs (this is known as verification)
• Feedback on the marking process (this is known as moderation)
• Completion of an annual report