The Pro-Vice-Chancellor for education and students, Kate O'Riordan wrote to all returning undergraduates today. You can read the full message below:

Dear student,

As you will have seen, the marking and assessment boycott was called off on Wednesday 6 September. For some of you, the boycott did not result in any missing marks, whilst for others you may have been significantly impacted. I am writing to all undergraduate students with this update as some of the work we are undertaking now, to manage the end of the boycott will impact everyone.

We have been working swiftly to ensure that all assessments from semester two and the summer resit period will now be marked and marks confirmed through our quality assurance processes.

Following ratification at Exam Boards, full results will be released as follows:

• Continuing students – results published on Wednesday 18 October
• Finalists – results published on Thursday 26 October

In order to manage this, we need to update both module and stage results. This means that some information in Sussex Direct, such as your module results page, will be temporarily unavailable while we undertake the necessary processing. The module marks and overall outcomes will be available to you again on the results publication days.

This will happen even where you have fully assured marks and a clear stage result and have not been affected by the boycott. Results information will be temporarily unavailable for all students from Monday 25 September, until the result publication dates outlined above.

We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause but want to reassure you that the information remains securely in our student records system; it is only closed from the student view of the system for this short period of time. If you require access to unaffected results in this period, please contact your School Office team or the University Exams and Assessment team via SPA-assessement@sussex.ac.uk and they will be able to provide it.

If you already had your full set of marks for the 2022-23 academic year and were planning to submit an academic appeal ahead of the 28 September deadline, please do so as planned, noting in your submission if you have been impeded in completing the appeal form in full by the removal of this information. The academic appeals team will ensure you are not disadvantaged in any way.

If you were impacted by the boycott, the appeals process will be available to you once the full results are published.

If you were impacted and you have been able to progress, there will be no change to your level of study and if you need to resit anything there will be opportunities for this in the coming year.

If you have been asked to repeat a year or consider temporary withdrawal, and most of your marks are missing, it may be that you will have enough credit to progress to the next year once the results are published. If this is the case there will be academic support to catch up.

I appreciate this is a lot of complex information. Please do take time to reflect on this, our FAQs have also been updated to help you understand how we are managing the end of the boycott so please do refer to them as well.

With best wishes,

Kate

Professor Kate O’Riordan
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Students)