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Who teaches, who assesses
A remote programme is judged on two things: who actually supervises you, and who settles your grade. Both answers are here — along with what is entrusted to a system and what never will be.
The boundary, written once and for all
An agent may propose a grade; only a human may settle it. That distinction decides everything. On a checkable answer — a calculation, a syntax, an expected result — marking is automatic and immediate, and no one would gain from it being slow. On open-ended work, the system prepares, a teacher decides, and you may request human re-examination without having to justify yourself.
- Admission and exclusion: human decision, reasoned in writing
- Final grade on open-ended work: settled by a teacher
- Award of a qualification: an act of the board, never of a system
- Appeal: open without cause, reviewed by a different person
The rhythm of a year
- 01
Two semesters
Each opens with a dated work plan and closes with a synthesis assessment, not a simple test.
- 02
A running project
It runs across the whole year and becomes the piece you will show. It is tracked, revised, and defended before a board.
- 03
Two examination sittings
A main sitting and a resit. Missing the first for a valid reason has no consequence for the year.
- 04
A board meeting
It settles results, rules on progression and gives reasons for adverse decisions. It sits with named people.
The faculty, as of today
We are opening. Publishing a gallery of portraits and credentials would be easy and unverifiable; we would rather state the rule that binds us. Each school is placed under a named guarantor, whose role is to settle what a system has prepared and to answer for the academic decisions in their field. The list of names is given to any applicant who asks, and will be published as soon as the relevant cohort opens.
Questions about assessment
Can a machine deny me a qualification?
No. Awarding a qualification is an act of the examination board, reserved to named individuals. A system may prepare a file, flag a discrepancy, propose a grade; it can neither award nor refuse.
How do I challenge a grade?
By a written request, with no need to give reasons. It is reviewed by someone who took no part in the original marking, within an announced timeframe. An appeal you must justify is not an appeal: it is a permission.
Can the assessment model change mid-semester?
No, and that is a written rule. The assessment set-up is frozen for the whole semester. Changing it midway would mean two students on the same course being judged differently depending on when they submitted — a breach of equal treatment, not an improvement.