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One academic standard across Edinburgh campus and tuition-free online—external examining without QAA staff status.
Online or on campus
Dual-pathway higher education fails when online is treated as a correspondence afterthought. This MSc starts with parity as an evidence problem: same learning outcomes, same identity-checked assessment, same external scrutiny. You will reconstruct a discrepancy between campus and online cohorts and write the paper an exam board should have had before the metrics went public. Edinburgh is not a postcard. It is a campus with rooms, libraries, and weather that online students do not share—so the programme asks how library licences, viva rooms, and invigilation stay fair. Scottish and UK quality references are taught as literacy, not as a claim that Brigant is a designated quality body. The award does not make you a QAA reviewer and it does not appoint you as someone else’s external examiner. It does make you harder to fool with a dashboard that hides online withdrawal. Capstones must use anonymised dual-pathway data or a documented quality process. Storm weeks, library-licence gaps, and identity-checked exams are treated as quality evidence, not as IT tickets. External-examiner sampling must include both modes in the same board cycle. University of Brigant will not market this MSc as a QAA secondment or as a shortcut onto another institution’s examiner register. MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from One Award, Two Modes: Evidence of Parity through One Award, Two Modes: Evidence of Parity; Learning Outcomes that Survive Online Delivery; Library, Lab-Equivalent, and Studio-Equivalent Fairness; Identity Checking, Vivas, and Remote Invigilation Ethics; Generative AI and Authorship Policies that Can Be Applied; Reasonable Adjustment across Campus and Distance, and finish on Writing for Senate and Boards of Studies. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Design dual-pathway assessment parity that can be evidenced Brief an external examiner without hiding online cohorts Run exam-board papers that name discrepancies Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: dual-pathway design, assessment and identity checking, external examining practice, and a supervised quality capstone. One standard across modes. No QAA/OfS logos.
Study online
Online tuition is free. Online examinations are free. There is no exam fee for online study.
On-campus study
Prefer to learn at our Edinburgh campus? Campus tuition and campus examinations are charged. The published campus price is on each programme page.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB621 | One Award, Two Modes: Evidence of Parity One Award, Two Modes: Evidence of Parity (UOB621) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using One Award, Two Modes: Evidence of Parity as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB622 | Learning Outcomes that Survive Online Delivery Learning Outcomes that Survive Online Delivery (UOB622) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Learning Outcomes that Survive Online Delivery as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB623 | Library, Lab-Equivalent, and Studio-Equivalent Fairness Library, Lab-Equivalent, and Studio-Equivalent Fairness (UOB623) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Library, Lab-Equivalent, and Studio-Equivalent Fairness as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB625 | Identity Checking, Vivas, and Remote Invigilation Ethics Identity Checking, Vivas, and Remote Invigilation Ethics (UOB625) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Identity Checking, Vivas, and Remote Invigilation Ethics as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB626 | Generative AI and Authorship Policies that Can Be Applied Generative AI and Authorship Policies that Can Be Applied (UOB626) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can define a measurable question, fit a method that can be checked, and report where it fails, using Generative AI and Authorship Policies that Can Be Applied as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a dataset description, a methods note, and one published evaluation. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a project note with the question, the method, the result, and the limitation. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB627 | Reasonable Adjustment across Campus and Distance Reasonable Adjustment across Campus and Distance (UOB627) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Reasonable Adjustment across Campus and Distance as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB629 | Sampling, Calibration, and Unseen Discrepancy Sampling, Calibration, and Unseen Discrepancy (UOB629) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Sampling, Calibration, and Unseen Discrepancy as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB630 | Writing Examiner Briefs and Responses Writing Examiner Briefs and Responses (UOB630) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Writing Examiner Briefs and Responses as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB631 | Exam Boards, Chairing, and Minute Honesty Exam Boards, Chairing, and Minute Honesty (UOB631) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Exam Boards, Chairing, and Minute Honesty as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| UOB633 | Scottish and UK Quality Reference Points as Literacy Scottish and UK Quality Reference Points as Literacy (UOB633) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Scottish and UK Quality Reference Points as Literacy as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB634 | Research Methods for Academic Standards Research Methods for Academic Standards (UOB634) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Research Methods for Academic Standards as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB635 | Writing for Senate and Boards of Studies Writing for Senate and Boards of Studies (UOB635) is a 3-credit course on MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Writing for Senate and Boards of Studies as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English (dual pathway: Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online; one academic standard). Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
You may study this award fully online from your country, or — where published — on campus at Brigant. Online study does not require a student visa. Campus study may.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. University of Brigant publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
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