If, having received the outcome email from the CEA Panel, you believe your CEAs are not appropriate then you have the right to appeal.
These are the grounds for the appeal process:
- The CEAs do not make sufficient adjustments according to the documentation describing your condition. If you are appealing a decision relating to a Short Term application, you must provide new evidence. If you are appealing a decision relating to Long Term CEAs, you may request an administrative check of the evidence held on your file by the Disability and Mental Health Service. If the check confirms that the CEA decision was appropriate, you may be asked to provide new evidence before your appeal is concluded. If you have information that the Disability and Mental Health Service has not previously seen, please attach this to your initial appeal; do not wait for the administrative check.
- There was a procedural defect in the Panel’s decision making process.
- Your condition has changed/there is an additional condition which you wish to have considered/added within existing CEAs.
To appeal you must complete the Appeal Against a CEA Panel Decision form. If you are basing your appeal on evidence then you must attach the evidence to the form, if this is new evidence you should also explain why this evidence was not submitted with the original application.
If you wish to appeal, you must do so within ten working days of receiving your outcome email from the CEA Panel which contains your agreed CEAs.
The Appeal Panel will consider all of the information presented to it and decide whether the original decision was appropriate or if the CEAs should be changed. Please bear in mind that the Appeal Panel may decide to offer fewer adjustments than were offered initially.
When the Panel has made its decision it will contact you by email and explain the decision within seven working days of you submitting an appeal.
To maintain impartiality students must not contact members of the Appeal Panel directly unless responding to a Panel member’s enquiry.
The Appeal Panel aims to consider your application as quickly as possible, and within seven working days of you submitting an appeal. You should be aware that it can take some time to put CEAs in place, so even if a decision is made before an exam you must remember that it may not be operationally possible to put the CEAs in place in time for your exam if the decision is close. Please therefore aim to submit your form as soon as possible.
If you have queries about the CEA appeal process please contact the Student Exams Team in the first instance by submitting an enquiry.