Academic Appeals
Appeals for undergraduate students take place in June and September, after the Summer and Supplemental examination sessions. There are two levels of appeals: Faculty or course (Courts of First Appeal) and College (Academic Appeals Committee).
Cases must go to the relevant Court of First Appeal before they can be heard by the Academic Appeals Committee. If the Court of First Appeal does not grant the appeal you then have the option to take the appeal to the College Academic Appeals.
There are three grounds for appeal:
- Case not adequately covered by College regulations
- Regulations not properly applied
- Ad misericordiam
You need to complete the appeal form and send it to the appropriate office. The same appeal form is used in both Courts of First Appeal and Academic Appeals cases. At the faculty/course level, the appeal will be heard by a committee chaired by the Dean or an acting Dean with a group staff from the relevant faculty. The tutor and the student will normally be interviewed by the committee. For details on the Courts of First appeal, please see:
http://www.tcd.ie/undergraduate-studies/academic-progress/appeals.php
The College Academic Appeals committee is chaired by the Registrar and includes the previous Senior Tutor, a representative from the Law School, the President of the Graduate Students’ Union and three other members – see the Calendar for their names. The Senior Lecturer and the Senior Tutor are in attendance. Again the student and the tutor are interviewed and the Dean of the relevant Faculty represents the faculty.
For information on the procedures followed by the Academic Appeals Committee, please click here: Academic Appeals procedures.
An important point to note is that the neither of the committees can change the mark given to a specific piece of work but they may alter the consequences of the marks. For options concerning mark changes, please consult the Re-mark/Re-check section (H11§51) of the Calendar at:
http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/assets/pdf/archive/2012-2013/tcd-calendar-h-regulations.pdf
2012/2013 Dates for Court of First Appeal are as follows: (TBC)
- TSM
- Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- BESS
- School of Education
- Health Sciences
- School of Nursing
- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Science
- School of Engineering
- School of Computer Science and Statistics
As tutors are aware, all appeals coming to the Academic Appeals Committee must firstly be heard by the appropriate Court of 1st Appeal within each area. Please contact relevant areas for details of Courts of 1st Appeal (as above).
The dates for Academic Appeals Committee 2012/2013 are as follows:
Academic Appeals (Annual)
Wednesday 26th June 2013 at 2pm
Appeals must be submitted no later than Tuesday 25th June at 5pm to hmcleod@tcd.ie
Contact person: Helen Richardson, ext 1095
Academic Appeals (Supplemental)
Supplemental Academic Appeals will run from Monday 23rd September - Friday 27th September 2013. (Details to follow)
Appeals must be submitted by email to millaned@tcd.ie no later than two days prior to your appeal date.
Contact person: Donncha Millane, ext 2551