At UEA there is provision for starred firsts. The discretion is with
individual Boards of Examiners, but candidates for a starred first must be
recommended by an external examiner and two-thirds of the Board of
Examiners must concur, with no external dissenting. We awarded 10 last year.
Eleanor Martin
At 16:42 12/01/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I would be very grateful to receive information from colleagues who have
>a policy on the award of first-class honours degrees with distinction
>(starred firsts).
>
>Currently at York, individual departments have formulated their own
>policies in this area, with the result that some award distinctions and
>some don't consider them at all. The criteria used by the departments
>who do award them also vary.
>
>I have undertaken to find out about practice elsewhere and would be glad
>to hear from you if you have an overall policy (and if so, what it is)
>or if you are operating under the same circumstances as us at present.
>
>Thanks, as always, for your time.
>Rosie
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>Rosie Dhesi,
>Assistant Registrar,
>Registrar's Department,
>University of York,
>Heslington, York. YO10 5DD
>Tel: 01904 432149 Fax: 01904 434039
>email: [log in to unmask]
>
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Eleanor Martin, Assistant Registrar, Academic Division,
UEA.
Tel. 01603 592205
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