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Individual Mitigating Circumstances & Assessment (IMCA): Principles & Procedures

NFAAR-PGT, NFAAR-HY and NFAAR-FD principles and procedures for dealing with IMCs and assessment for courses regulated by these assessment regulations

IMCA does not apply to UG courses (except foundation or honours year courses). Instead refer to IMC Policy

IMCA applies to:

Faculty of Engineering & Design

All courses for students starting before Oct 22 and:

  • MSc Engineering Business Management - for students starting before Oct 23
  • MSc Robotics and Autonomous Systems - for all students

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

All courses for students starting before Oct 24 except for:

  • Clinical Associate in Psychology (Degree Apprenticeship)

Faculty of Science

All postgraduate courses except:

  • Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice (MSc)
  • Clinical Pharmacy Practice Primary/Secondary Care (MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert)
  • Prescribing & Therapeutics (MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert)

and except for students on the following courses starting from Oct 24 or later:

  • MSc Drug Discovery
  • MSc Biotechnology (Healthcare Technologies/Sustainable Biotechnologies/with Entrepreneurship)
  • MSc Molecular Biosciences (Bioinformatics/Medical Biosciences/ Microbiology)
  • Integrated PhD Molecular Biosciences
  • Integrated PhD Biotechnology

School of Management

All MSc and MA courses for students starting before Oct 23 and all students on the following courses:

  • Full-time MBA
  • Executive part-time MBA
  • MRes

Honours Year courses

All students

Foundation degree courses

All students

Further information

IMC procedures