Where personal or academic difficulties and/or circumstances have adversely impacted your studies and final results, you may be eligible to submit an academic appeal.
An academic appeal is a request for a review of the final decision of the assessment board and can be submitted for a range of reasons. It is important to keep in mind that you cannot submit an appeal based off a disagreement with academic judgement (e.g. you feel you should have gotten a better grade).
An academic appeal is for ratified assessment results only. Any fail or non-submission grades awarded as a result of an academic misconduct should be appealed through the misconduct appeals route. .
An academic appeal must be submitted electronically, from your RGU email account to your school's designated email address. An automatic acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to you and all communications regarding your appeal will usually be sent by email to your RGU student account. In the event that an academic appeal is submitted after the 10-working day period, you should aim to prove that failure to meet the deadline was due to evidenced circumstances which were outside of your control. If an academic appeal is submitted more than 12 months after the publication of results, the appeal will not be considered and you will receive a notification of this rejection. More details on this can be found in Academic Regulation A3-1 Academic Appeal.
For full details on how to submit an academic appeal, students are encouraged to reach out to the Union's Academic Advice Service and/or their personal tutors for guidance. Written guides for both academic appeal processes have also been produced to help you navigate RGU’s academic appeals process.
Academic Appeal Stage 1:
Academic Appeal Stage 2
At the Academic Advice Service, we are more than happy to support you and read through any appeal drafts to provide feedback, however we cannot mark your statement in detail nor can we write any part of your appeal for you.