Lodging the appeal
First step in lodging an appeal
The first stage in the appeal process is to discuss your intention to appeal at a pre-appeal meeting (if it is not possible for this to take place in person the 'discussion' may be via telephone conversation or dialogue via email). Following that discussion, if you wish to proceed with an appeal, you should complete the relevant Appeal Form and send it in an envelope marked 'URGENT APPEAL' to Michael Moon, Academic Office, Sussex House, University of Sussex with all supporting evidence. Please ensure that the form arrives before the deadline. If, for some reason, you are unable to attend a pre-appeal meeting before the deadline for submission, please send in your appeal form explaining when the meeting is to take place.
Your appeal form and any supporting information or evidence must be submitted in English and it is your responsibility to ensure that any materials submitted in connection with your appeal are translated into English.
Pre-Appeal meetings
To arrange a pre-Appeal meeting please contact:
Wendy Tozer
Telephone 01273 877091 or Email W.J.Tozer@sussex.ac.uk
Please note that it is not possible to appeal against an individual mark – including those released to you following the period of mid-year assessment – until the mark in question has been ratified by a meeting of the Examination Board (which do not meet until the summer).
If you have reason to believe there is an error or mistake in the mark awarded to you – and this is not related to a matter of academic judgment – you are advised that you must seek to resolve this via further discussion with colleagues in your School so that any error can be corrected prior to the meeting of the Examination Board.
Please note also that there is no requirement for a pre-appeal meeting to be held if your appeal is in relation to a decision by a student progress committee, a misconduct panel, or in relation to a research degree.
Deadline for appeal
An academic appeal must be lodged within 21 calendar days of the publication of the examiners' decision (excluding Bank Holidays and University closure days). Please note that the relevant date is that of publication, not the date that the result was received. That means that the onus is on you to be alert to when results are published. (Information about the publication of results is contained in the relevant and current Examination and Assessment Handbook for Undergraduate/Postgraduate Students).
An appeal against a decision of a School Student Progress Committee that a student is required to withdraw from the University must be lodged within 7 working days of the date of the notification letter.
An appeal submitted after the deadline can only be accepted if there are strong and valid reasons for doing so, and ignorance of the appeals procedure, or late receipt of results because the student did not inform the University of their current address cannot be accepted as valid reasons for late submission. Student Handbooks contain guidance on updating address details in Sussex Direct. It is the student's responsibility to identify any possible grounds for appeal within the stated deadline - please note that it is not possible to introduce new grounds after submission of your appeal form.