PURPOSE: this regulation explains how you can progress from one level to the next.

7.1 Foundation Year (Level 0)

Students who submit all their assessments and gain an average of 40% or more across all their foundation year modules may progress to Level 4.  Any student who does not achieve a level average of 40% will need to undertake reassessment in any failed modules to achieve a 40% level average before they can progress. 

7.2 Profile for Progression (Foundation Degrees, Bachelor’s Degrees with Honours and Integrated Master’s Degrees)

You will progress from one level to the next if you have:
• successfully passed all 120 credits, or
• achieved the profile for compensation and have been awarded 120 credits (see Regulation 6).

If you do not meet the profile for progression as described above, you may be able to progress to the next level trailing up to a maximum of 40 credits from the previous level. This could be due to outstanding reassessments or repeating a module. You can only progress carrying outstanding credit from the level below, e.g. you can progress to Level 6 carrying Level 5 credit but not carrying Level 4 credit.

7.3 Master’s Degrees

There are no progression requirements on any taught postgraduate courses. Students must achieve a mark of 50% or more to pass a module. All modules must be passed to be eligible for the award.

7.4 Part-time students only

Assessment boards are held at the end of an academic year. For some part-time students, this will not be at a progression point between levels. If you have failed one or more of your modules at this point, you may undertake reassessment or repeat modules alongside your new modules as long as this does not exceed the maximum amount of credit that a part-time student can take in any one academic year, which is 105 credits.

7.5 Higher Degree Apprenticeships

If you are on a Higher Degree Apprenticeship course, you are permitted to progress to Gateway leading to the End Point Assessment once you have successfully completed all the credits associated with your award and met the criteria as prescribed by the relevant apprenticeship framework or standard in accordance with Education and Skills Funding Agency funding and monitoring rules.

7.6 Other factors constraining progression

If you have to trail credit from one year to the next, or are returning from a break in study, there may be some circumstances which affect your progression, such as:
• any specified pre-requisite relationships between modules that dictate the sequence in which they must be studied.
• the maximum permissible number of students on a module.
• the non-availability of modules.