University Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

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L.N. 351 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 October 2018 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 12 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (2) of regulation 12 of the principal regulations there

shall be substituted the following

“(2) The Board of Examiners shall be appointed by Senate on the

recommendation of the Board and shall be composed of the Head of the Department

academically responsible for the Study-Unit concerned as chairman, the external

examiner when one is appointed, and not less than two other examiners including the

lecturer or the Study-Unit Co-ordinator, provided that

(a) for Boards of Examiners for dissertations and in cases where the Head

of Department is also responsible for the teaching of the Study-Unit, the Head may

delegate the chairmanship;

(b) where supervisors are members of Boards of Examiners, they shall not be

appointed chairmen; and

(c) two spouses, partners, cohabitants or persons who have been in such

relationships or two siblings shall not both be appointed as members of the same

Board of Examiners, as auxiliary examiners, or as reviewers of any Assessment.”

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