At Salford a message is printed at the bottom of student personal timetables advising that they should mobiles and pagers are not permitted in an examination room.
Also an announcement is made at the start of each examination that mobile phones and pagers should not have been taken into the examination room. Any students that do have mobile phones or pagers with them are told to ensure they are turned off and either place them in their bags at the front of the room or place them on the invigilators desk, and those students are reminded not to take them into future examinations.
We too are looking at revising our procedures in this respect and have thought about introducing fines. I would be interested to see a copy of your feedback.
Thanks.
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Deborah Hancox, Administrative Assistant
Assessments Office, Academic Division
(Ext. 53159)
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Robinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 May 2002 11:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: mobile phones in examinations
Dear All
I would be very interested to know how other institutions deal with mobile
phones going off in examinations.
At Queen Mary students are warned that they must turn off mobiles before
entering an examination room and that if their mobile goes off during an
examination they will be reported to the Academic Registrar and may be
fined.
In practice no-one has ever been fined, rather they get a stern lecture from a
senior member of staff. We don't appear to have had any problems with
repeat offenders.
We have nothing specific in our examination regulations about mobile
phones. I would like to tighten up on the information we actually give to
students before an examination starts.
I would be happy to provide a summary of information gathered from
responses to this e-mail.
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Andy
Dr Andy Robinson
Administrative Officer (Records and Examinations)
Student Administration Office
Queen Mary, University of London
Phone: 020-7882 5549
Fax: 020-7882 5588
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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