Birmingham Metropolitan College have a vacancy for an External Examiner (4 year tenure) for their HND Media and Communications programme. The programme is validated by Birmingham City University.
All External Examiner appointments are subject to approval by the University Academic Board.
Role Requirements:
- Comment on the content of the subject area particularly with regard to subject benchmarks
- Examine assessment briefs, exam papers and student work to ensure academic standards and achievements of students are comparable with those in other UK higher education establishments of which the external examiner has experience
- Provide informative comment and recommendations on whether the assessment process measures student achievement rigorously and fairly against the intended outcomes of the programme/s and is conducted in line with the relevant policies and regulations
- Attend examination board/s and submit an annual report
- Engage in communication with the academics and academic services teams
Please note that External Examiners are required to engage with assessment of both theory and practice elements of the programme where relevant. Ideally, External Examiners will be able to examine across both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Applicants must be currently, or within the previous 5 years, employed in a teaching or research post relevant to the subject area.
Please apply here: https://jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=122016-567
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Our standard fee for External Examiners is £450 per academic year. We also offer an additional fee for visits made to BCU for purposes other than to attend exam boards.
Please note that we try and appointment new External Examiners 12 months before their tenure is due to begin.
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