Academic appeals

Appeals

If you want to appeal a decision made by a Progression and Award Board (PAB), you must:

• complete an appeal form
• provide full supporting evidence explaining your reason for appeal.
• email your form and evidence to ArgAppeals.reg@coventry.ac.uk, within 10 working days of your results being released on SOLAR.

What you can appeal

Full details of what constitutes grounds for appeal are given in the Academic Regulations. However, the bases on which an appeal may be allowed to go forward fall broadly into three categories:

• Procedural irregularity in the running of the assessment, or
• Unfair or improper assessment on the part of the examiner(s), or
• Severe extenuating circumstances.

What you can't appeal

You may not appeal just because you disagree with the academic judgement of the Board. Appeals based on issues like poor supervision or teaching arrangements are treated as complaints, not appeals.

You may not appeal if you did not submit an assessment, and were marked as absent as a result.

Appeal guidance

Full details of how to appeal is available in the Academic Regulations, Appendix 2.

A Student guide to Academic Appeals is available in the Registry Section of the Student Portal