Hi
My institution is considering using an asterisk against a grade in a
student transcript to indicate 'mitigating circumstances' - ie to indicate
where a grade might have been expected to be different from what it turns
out to be. They do not intend to elaborate on the 'mitigating circumstances'.
Does this constitute unfair processing? - you could argue that a reader of
the transcript might reasonably infer that the particular student had had
a medical problem or a perhaps a series of 'personal circumstances' which
might make them a poor prospect as an employee/postgrad etc.
Advice welcome.
Alison Aiton
Alison Aiton, Scottish Middleware Project
IT Services, College Gate, University of St Andrews
01334 463528
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