University Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

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L.N. 113 of 2018

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

University Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74 (5) and 75 (6) of the

Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has promulgated

the following regulations made by the Senate of the University of Malta by virtue of

the powers conferred upon it by articles 75 (3) and 79 (b) of the said Act

Citation

These regulations may be cited as the University Assessment

(Amendment) Regulations, 2018 and shall be read and construed as one with the

University Assessment Regulations, 2009, published as Legal Notice 274 of 2009,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable from 1 March, 2018 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 57 of the principal regulations

For regulation 57 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted

the following

“Provisions for Students with a Disability

57. (1) Assessment arrangements may be made for students with a

disability to enable them to perform to the best of their ability and to be assessed

provided that such students do not gain undue advantage from such assistance,

and provided that the integrity and academic standards of the Assessments are not

thereby jeopardised. Such arrangements will be made in line with the guidelines for

access arrangements that may be approved by Senate from time to time.

(2) The ACCESS Disability Support Committee may approve that

students who have severe dyslexia be allowed the use of a computer during their

examinations, and may also be allowed to have the spell checker enabled

provided that the use of the spell checker does not result in their gaining

an unfair advantage over other students and provided that it does not change the

examination objectives.”

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