We would like to extend a warm welcome to all our external examiners
This site is aimed at all external examiners for taught programmes and is in addition to the External Examiner Procedures, the University’s Quality Handbook and the programme level information the School will provide.
On this site external examiners will find all the information they need in one place at the start and throughout their appointment, including:
- an introduction to the University and its strategy
- the UK Quality Code for Higher Education
- an overview of the role of external examiner at the University of Southampton
- details about the support offered to new external examiners
- an overview of the University’s Faculty/School structure
- programme specific induction
- Assessment Regulations and related policies
- guidance on reporting requirements and access to report and claim forms for fees and expenses
- frequently asked questions
- contact information
If you would like to offer us any feedback on this site please go to the contact us page and send us a message. We aim to respond to all messages received within 72 hours of receipt.
Vice-President (Education & Student Experience)
Hello and welcome to the University of Southampton. We’re very grateful that you’ve agreed to work with us as an external examiner.
At the University, we take the role of external examiners extremely seriously. Your input, your experience and your advice will be key – not only in allowing us to be confident about the quality of what we offer, but also in helping us to develop and enhance the quality of our offering.
We’re very committed to working effectively and positively with our external examiner’s and we’ve developed a range of resources which I hope you’ll find helpful as you find your way into that role and work with us over the forthcoming period of your appointment.We’re very much looking forward to learning from your experience, your judgment and your insight and I hope that during your time with us you’ll find that that you can learn something from us too. I hope that it’s an enjoyable and collegial time.
Associate Vice President (Education)
My name is Anna Barney and I’m the Associate Vice President (Education). We’re really grateful to you for taking on the role of external examiner for us. We know that this is quite a commitment of time and effort, but it’s really important to us to help support the academic standards and quality of our programs. We want to support you in your role, and I hope that the training that you can see on this website is going to help you with that.
Your main contact will be with the programme leads and with the Student Education Support teams that look after our assessment processes, but you’re very welcome to contact me or our Vice President, Deborah Gill, if you want to discuss anything.
We hope that you enjoy your role, and we look forward to hearing any comments you have that might help us to improve our programs or enhance the student experience.