1.

These Regulations are made subject to the General Academic Regulations of the School. They apply to every student taking a programme leading to a first degree in the School or any course constituting part of such a degree.

2.

The first degrees in the School are the Bachelor of Arts (BA), the Bachelor of Science (BSc) and the Bachelor of Laws (LLB), comprising a number of programmes each leading either to the award of the degree with a particular title or to completion of the General Course.

3.

A programme leading to a degree normally extends over three or four consecutive academic years, as set out in the programme regulations. The normal maximum period for completing a first degree is six years from the initial date of registration.

4.

A student will normally enrol for courses up to the value of four course units in each year. Courses must be chosen to comply with the programme regulations concerned. All undergraduate students are enrolled on LSE100 in addition to the courses specified by his/her programme regulations.

5.

The School may permit a student to transfer from one programme to another within the School. Such permission will be given only on the recommendation of the departmental tutors of the department responsible for the student's current degree and for the degree into which he/she wishes to transfer.

6.

In exceptional circumstances, the School may permit a student to vary his or her programme by substituting for courses, normally to the maximum value of one full unit, listed in the programme regulations, other undergraduate courses of equivalent value. Such permission will only be given on the recommendation of the departmental tutor for the department responsible for the programme concerned.

7.

The School may at its discretion permit a student to interrupt his or her studies on grounds of illness or other relevant cause for a period normally not exceeding two years.

8.

The School may exempt a student from part of a programme and may exempt such a student additionally from part of the examinations prescribed for the degree. A person who has obtained one of the following qualifications may be admitted direct to the second year and complete the programme in not less than two academic years:

8.1

a degree of a university in the United Kingdom, of the Council for National Academic Awards or of a university outside the United Kingdom recognised by the School for the purpose;

8.2

the Diploma in Economics of the University, obtained by external study;

8.3

any other qualification obtained by written examination, which is recognised by the School for the purpose;

8.4

qualifications other than those above and/or experience relevant to the programme. Such a person may be required to sit a qualifying examination.

9.

The School may consider for admission direct to the second year or to an earlier point of a programme any person who will have taken part of a first degree programme or has appropriate qualifications and/or experience. Such a person may be required to sit a qualifying examination.

10.

A student admitted under Regulation 8 or 9 may be granted exemption from courses and examinations, or may be subjected to additional requirements, in accordance with the relevant programme regulations.

11.

When considering an application under Regulations 8,9 or 10 the School shall consider the following:

11.1

the standard and content of courses and examinations taken elsewhere, certified by the appropriate officer or officers of the relevant institution, and their relevance to the intended programme at the School;

11.2

the compatibility of the study previously undertaken with the proposed programme, to allow a smooth transition into that programme;

11.3

the reasons given for transfer and observations made on them by the institution most recently attended. The applicant must have been eligible, on academic grounds, to continue study at that institution.

12.

Programme regulations may require the student to spend a period of study in a university designated by the School or in an alternative approved activity in another country.

13.

The School may exceptionally permit a student to spend not more than one year of his/her degree programme, other than the first year, in another institution of university status and may exempt him/her from the courses that would have been taken in that year or part thereof, provided

13.1

that the institution has been approved for this purpose by the School, and

13.2

that the study carried out in that institution coheres with the remainder of the programme, and

13.3

that any arrangements for the assessment of the student's performance in examinations in respect of the courses followed at that institution to be accepted in lieu of the examinations prescribed by course regulations have been approved for this purpose by the School, and

13.4

that the standard of the course or courses attended by the student is equivalent to that of the course or courses the student would normally have followed at the School.

14.

A student receiving permission under Regulation 13

14.1

shall be exempted from the requirements of the programme by no more than a value of four course-units, from those elements of the examination which the student would have taken in the year or part thereof that he/she spent at another institution, and

14.2

shall be credited with such marks or grades (if any) as the School shall think fit in respect of the assessment made in lieu of the prescribed examinations.

15.

A candidate will be deemed to have entered the examinations for the courses for which he/she is registered.

16.

Candidates shall be bound by the regulations in force at the time of their entry to the examination including the individual programme regulations.

17.

The School will establish a board of examiners for the BA/BSc degrees, with appropriate subboards, and a board or boards of examiners for the LLB degrees. Each board shall include examiners who are not members of the staff of the School, who shall have regard to the totality of each degree programme and who shall be involved and particularly influential in the decisions relating to the award of every degree and shall annually report to the Director, being asked specifically to comment and give judgement on the validity and integrity of the assessment process and the standard of student attainment.

18.

Examination procedures shall ensure that assessment is and can be demonstrated to be fair and impartial.

19.

Each board of examiners shall ensure inter alia that the application of approved classification schemes shall have regard to the totality of the programme and to the requirements for progression within it, and to the requirement for each candidate to achieve a satisfactory overall standard.

20.

A candidate will normally be examined in courses up to the value of four course units at the end of each year. A candidate will not be re-examined in any course which he or she has already passed other than under Regulation 25.

21.

The School may at its discretion exclude from an examination a candidate who has not satisfactorily attended the course in that year of study or who has not completed the work required in that course. Examinations from which candidates are barred count as an attempt at the course in question, as set out in Regulation 24.

22.

No fee is payable for the first attempt at an examination.

23.

A candidate who for medical or other reasons approved by the School does not sit an examination while in attendance at the School may be permitted to sit such an examination at the next time it is normally offered, without payment of a fee, whether or not in attendance at the School. A candidate who resits an examination when not registered at the School will be required to pay a fee determined by the School from time to time and must ensure that any examination fee payable must be received by the date specified by the School.

24.

A candidate who has failed an examination and who has not been awarded a degree will normally be required to resit the failed paper at the first possible opportunity, but no LLB paper or first year BA/BSc paper shall be sat more than three times and no second or third year BA/BSc paper shall be sat more than twice. For this purpose a candidate absent from an examination which she/he has entered shall be regarded as having sat it unless the board of examiners, having considered the facts of the case, shall decide otherwise.

25.

A candidate registered on an LLB programme who has failed

25.1

in papers to the value of two or more course units in one year shall normally resit all papers taken in the year.

25.2

in any paper may be required to resit any or all of the papers taken in that year.

26.

A candidate registered on an LLB programme who is resitting examinations where the assessment includes an essay and who has passed in that course shall not resit that paper and his/her existing mark in it shall remain unchanged. A candidate who has failed in that course may resubmit the essay, and at their discretion the examiners may conduct an additional oral examination of the candidate which may concern not only the content of the essay but also its wider background.

27.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Regulations 20 to 26, a candidate registered on the General Course is only entitled to resit a failed examination at the first possible opportunity. If such a candidate was absent without reasons approved by the School or withdrew, a resit is not normally permitted.

28.

A student registered on a BA or BSc programme who has completed the first year of the programme and who has passed examinations in courses to the value of at least three course units will be eligible to progress to the second year. The School may consider an application to progress to the second year of the degree from a student who has not met this requirement and at its discretion the School may allow such a student to progress or to repeat the first year of the programme as appropriate. All undergraduates are awarded a mark for the compulsory additional course, LSE100, which is represented on their transcript but does not count towards progression requirements or their final degree classification. The regulations regarding examinations for LSE100 are published separately to students as course-specific guidance.

29.

A student registered on an LLB programme will be eligible to progress to the second year of study in that programme if he/she has completed the first year of the programme and has passed the examinations for all courses either at the first sitting or at resit. The School may consider an application to progress to the second year of the degree from a student who has not met this requirement and at its discretion the School may allow such a student to repeat the first year of the programme.

30.

A student registered on a BA or BSc programme who has completed the second year of the programme and who has passed examinations in courses to the value of at least seven course units will be eligible to progress to the final year. The School may consider an application to progress to the final year from a student who has not met this requirement and at its discretion the School may allow such a student to progress or to repeat the second year of the programme as appropriate.

31.

A student registered on an LLB programme will be eligible to progress to the third year of the programme if he/she has completed the second year of the programme and

31.1

has passed or had failure condoned in all examinations required to complete the year successfully, either at first sitting or at resit; or

31.2

at the discretion of the School has been permitted to resit any failed paper concurrently with the papers of the third year.

32.

A student registered on a programme normally completed in four years will be eligible to proceed to the fourth year of the programme if he/she has completed the second year of the programme and has passed all examinations required in that year and has passed any assessment required by the programme regulations in the third year. Nevertheless where a student has failed the assessment for the third year in circumstances certified by the examining university and regarded by the School as equivalent to those which would have entitled him/her to the offer of an Aegrotat degree of the University of London he/she may be permitted to enter the final year of the programme.

33.

The method(s) of assessment for each course and the weighting of each method of assessment will be specified in the on-line Undergraduate Course Guides.

34.

Where the regulations permit essays and reports on practical work or other material to count as part of the assessment for a course, work submitted must be certified to be that of the candidate concerned and any quotation from the published or unpublished works of other persons must be acknowledged.

35.

In addition to the methods of assessment as stated in the on-line Undergraduate Course Guides, examiners, at their discretion, may exceptionally test any candidate by means of an oral examination.

36.

The School may in exceptional circumstances permit a variation of the method(s) of assessment for a course, in respect of some or all candidates.

37.

Examinations will be held once in each year, except that there will also be examination resits for LLB programme candidates (but not those in their final year of study) during the Summer vacation.

38.

The conduct of candidates in assessment is governed by the Regulations on assessment offences: plagiarism, the Statement on Editorial Help and  Regulations on assessment offences: offences other than plagiarism.

44.

Degrees are awarded by the University or the School in accordance with the relevant regulations.

45.

To be eligible for an award a candidate must have satisfied the requirements of all applicable regulations and must have completed and attempted every element of the assessment for courses to the value of twelve course units or, for second year direct entry students, courses to the value of eight course units except where and to the extent that the special provisions under Regulation 52 apply. Course LSE100 does not count for the purpose of classification. A candidate must have completed the requisite number of courses from his/her programme regulations.

46.

The classification of results will accord with the scheme of classification approved by the School for that programme. In the case of second year direct entry students, the classification of results will not take into account the candidate's performance during previous studies at another institution.

47.

A candidate awarded a degree will be awarded First Class Honours, Second Class Honours (Upper Division), Second Class Honours (Lower Division), Third Class Honours or, in the case of a candidate who does not qualify for Honours, a Pass Degree.

48.

A list of candidates who have successfully completed their degree will be published by the School.

49.

Following each diet of examinations students may request an intermediate transcript of his/her marks or grades obtained at those examinations.

50.

A degree certificate will be despatched to each candidate who is awarded the degree. The certificate will state the title of the degree awarded.

51.

The School will provide a final transcript of marks or grades awarded to every student on completion of the programme.

52.

A candidate who has completed the programme and who, through illness or other cause judged sufficient by the School, has been absent from the whole or part of the examinations at the end of his or her final year, or though present at the whole of the examinations at the end of his or her final year considers that his or her performance has been adversely affected by any of the above causes will receive special consideration on the basis of a medical certificate or other statement of the exceptional circumstances normally supported by records of the candidate's performance during the course and by assessments provided by the candidate's teachers, as follows:

52.1

the candidate may be offered the award of either an Honours or Pass degree if absent from examinations to the value of no more than two full units but otherwise satisfying the School under Regulation 45. The candidate has the right to accept or decline the offer within a reasonable time specified by the School from time to time. In the event that the candidate has re-entered for examinations the offer will lapse.

52.2

the candidate may be offered an Aegrotat degree if satisfying the School under Regulation 45 but not recommended for an Honours or Pass degree. The candidate has the right to accept or decline the offer within a reasonable time specified by the School from time to time. In the event that the candidate has re-entered for examinations, the offer will lapse. An Aegrotat degree will be unclassified.

53.

A candidate upon whom a degree has been conferred ceases to be eligible for consideration for any further award arising from that programme.

54.

Appeals against decisions of boards of examiners must be made in writing to the Assessment Regulations Team in the prescribed format and timeframe as set out in the Appeals Regulations.

5 - 6, 13, 36

Chair of Undergraduate Studies Subcommittee

8 - 10

Head of Department

14, 23 (resit permission)
31, 32, 52

School Board of Examiners for BA and BSc degrees
School Board of Examiners for LLB degrees

17, 46

Academic Board on the recommendation of Teaching Learning Assessment Committee

21

Dean of Undergraduate Studies

28 - 30

Student Progress Panel

23 (fee date), 48, 49, 51

Academic Registrar