Final Reviews

The Universities Final Review procedure

https://myuni.swansea.ac.uk/academic-life/academic-regulations/conduct-and-complaints/final-review-procedure/

Final reviews apply to a range of matters such as appeals, complaints, academic misconduct and withdrawal. If you are unhappy with the outcome of your academic case, you can consider putting in a final review to have the case reviewed one last time. Final reviews are generally only successful if you have further evidence to provide to support your case, with a good reason for why this was not initially presented.  Please click on the above link to familiarise yourself with the university procedures for final reviews. 

Deadline for Final Reviews: 14 working days (You can email [email protected] and ask for an extension if you are delayed in some way.)

Here at the Advice Centre we can read through final reviews and provide you with feedback and suggestions of what to change or add. This hopefully results in the highest chance of getting a successful outcome.

Final Review Cases for Appeals 

1. If you want support from the Advice Centre, make sure you send your outcome letter from the academic appeal, along with the original appeal and any evidence you submitted. This can be uploaded onto the helpdesk
2. We will then review the outcome letter to see the breakdown of why the appeal was unsuccessful, you can also do this to make a start on the Final Review. Appeal outcome letters are usually specific, and will specifically mention ineligibility, lack of evidence, or reclassification as a complaint etc. 
3. Have a think of  any further evidence that you could provide , as well as a good reason for not having supplied this initially.
4. To fill out the final review form, you must address why you are unhappy/in disagreement with the outcome, and why you want a final review. 

Final Review Cases for Complaints

               Repeat steps 1-4, but with reviewing the informal and formal complaint, evidence and outcome letters. 

Final Review Cases for Academic Misconduct

               Repeat steps 1-4 where appropriate, send us your response form, written response, penalty letter or outcome letter from the meeting, depending on the type of AM case you had. If you did not initially present any mitigation, have a think about whether you had anything going on at the time of submission that could have affected you. If you do, disclose this in the final review, with evidence and an explanation for why this was not presented sooner.