The purposes of assessment are to help both staff and students monitor and improve learning, to provide a measure of achievement, and to help assure our academic quality and standards.  We hope that your learning will gain maximum benefit through effective and efficient assessment.  Our assessments are designed on the principles that they are valid, reliable and explicit.

You will undertake both formative and summative assessments during your time here.  Formative assessment is designed to help you learn more effectively through the receipt of feedback on your performance, indicating how you can improve.  It does not count towards your overall mark.  Summative assessment is used to indicate how well you have met the intended learning outcomes of a module or programme, and does count towards your overall mark.  Feedback is provided on all assessments taken during the academic year.