Recent new or updated teaching and learning policies, procedures or guidance include:

• Minor Amendments to the September 2026 UG and PGT Degree Regulations: Two minor amendments have now been approved to the September 2026 UG and PGT Degree Regulations by AQSC-TLS. These revised regulations will apply only to students who commence their studies on or after 1 September 2026. There is no requirement for programmes to amend regulations part-way through a student’s programme of study. Section B Title of Taught Awards: Minor amendments have been made to both regulations to clarify that the award title “X with Y” should be used for two distinct subjects, and “X(Y)” should be used to denote a bracketed specialism e.g. when Y is a related specialist subject of X. A minor amendment has been made to B6 d in the PGT Regulations to remove the upper credit for the specialist subject. This  changes ensures alignment with existing Humanities provision, without affecting compliance in other faculties. Treatment of Deferral Marks (UG G33 and PGT I33): A clarification has been added to confirm that when a student takes a deferral, their original mark is annulled unless: The student fails the deferral and the original mark was a pass, in which case the mark will be capped at the pass mark for UG/PGT students; The student fails the deferral and the original mark was in the compensation zone, in which case the original mark will stand.
  This ensures that students who take deferrals are not at a disadvantage compared with those taking referrals.
• The Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught Degree Regulations have been updated for 2026 implementation. A summary of the changes can be found in our 'You Said, We Did' report. (February 2026)
• Our Student Protection Plan has received a comprehensive review for September 2025, including the introduction of a risk likelihood for all risks, an assessment of the impact to students after mitigation for each of the risks, updated data to support risk assessments, and simplification of wording into plain English.
• Procedures for the award of Posthumous and Aegrotat Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught Degrees has received minor updates, including transfer onto a new student friendly template, clarification and simplification of wording into plain English, and a minor amendment to remove the stipulation in 2.2.4 that students may not be awarded a posthumous award higher than the FHEQ level at which they last studied.
• Guidance on Lecture ‘Shout-Outs’ has been discontinued and archived.
• The Framework for Credit Transfer and Grade Conversion for Study Abroad has received significant revisions from consultation and a major review by PIP. The Framework has been transferred onto a new student friendly template, clarification and simplification of wording into plain English, and received specific updates including: a new credit conversion table and details about UK ENIC. There has also been removal of the reference to Erasmus; updated wording to 5.2.2 r.e course units with a higher level of difficulty; and an update to 7.1.1 with new wording for aggregating grades. There has also been a revision of all appendices, including new information on credit equivalencies and the removal of the student pocket guide. The student pocket guide will soon be uploaded as a webpage (to follow). 
• The Mitigating Circumstances and Extensions Policy and Procedures have received important updates. Changes to evidentiary requirements in the Mitigating Circumstances Procedures have been made in consultation with DASS following the Bristol V Abrahart case (see 2.1.8; 2.1.9; 2.1.10). It has been clarified in the Extensions Procedures that no evidence is required from students for extension requests (see 2.3). There have also been text changes to promote consistency and support the design of the technical solution.

• The Degree Outcomes Statement has been updated for the 24/25 academic year with minor amendments, including new formatting into a document instead of a webpage.