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Changes to the University Regulations 2026-27 (and Other Reminders)

This page highlights the key changes within regulations and policies that are effective for Academic Year 2026-27. 

Changes to the University Regulations 2026-27

Many parts of the University Regulations have been rewritten for 2026-27, and they take effect on 1 August 2026.

This page tells you what you need to know for the new session: how the regulations now fit together, the areas that most need your attention, and what has not changed. You do not need to absorb everything at once. Training on the new regulations, and other Project Compass training, is available and you can sign up for it here.

If you are a student: the regulations themselves are written for you and are linked from The new University Regulations and who they cover. If something is affecting your assessments right now, start with the Extenuating Circumstances Policy and speak to your Adviser of Studies, the Wellbeing Team, or the SRC Advice Centre.

Because the regulations have been rewritten from the ground up rather than amended, this page does not attempt to list every difference from the old text. If you often worked with the old regulations and knew them well, you should treat them as superseded and read the new documents fresh. If you were not confident in your knowledge of the old regulations, then the new regulations stand on their own and you do not need to learn the old rules to understand them.

Key changes

These changes are the most significant introduced this year:

  • all courses at all levels have the same reassessment and award of credit rules, and there are no more unique assessment rules for Honours or the Integrated Masters.
  • this means that there will be limited reassessment opportunities available for Honours students (note most areas have to prepare second-attempt questions for Honours students with Extenuating Circumstances, so we do not expect this to have a significant effect on workload).
  • credit for a course is awarded when a student achieves a course grade of D or above, and credit for a whole academic session can be awarded when a student has a D or above for courses totalling two-thirds or more of the session’s credits.
  • all 75% rules relating to the award of credit have been removed.
  • there is a transition arrangements providing a Degree Award Guarantee in the unlikely case that a student would not get a degree due to the changes to the award of credit regulations.
  • GPA calculations are now on a session-by-session basis and are based wholly on course outcomes, never on component grades.
  • the undergraduate year weighting options for degree programmes are reduced to two for Honours programmes (50:50 and 25:75) and to a set of 5 for the Integrated Masters.
  • course grades following reassessment are now capped, not just the grade points.
  • progression and award thresholds have been standardised, with undergraduate progression and award requiring a minimum GPA of 9.0 (higher for the Integrated Masters and with variations for regulated and statutory degrees).
  • a Board of Studies may now approve an alternative form of reassessment where the original form cannot be used, provided it assesses the same intended learning outcomes at the same level and requires an equivalent standard.
  • all credit-count thresholds have been removed (this includes, for example, our former rules that as well as a certain GPA, a PGT student would also need 75% of their course grades at D or above to progress to the dissertation).
  • the new Delayed Assessment Permits (DAPs) replace short extensions: students get 3 DAPs per year, and a DAP when used moves a Moodle deadline automatically by 5 working days; note that assessments handled away from Moodle need tagging so that you are notified to process the extension manually.
  • the rules on Extenuating Circumstances are in the Extenuating Circumstances Policy and now include EAGR, which replaces appeals for very late EC claims, and some limited cases of self-certification.
  • course and programme handbooks are no longer permitted: institution-wide and College-wide standard content replaces much of what they contained, and any necessary local information should now be text on Moodle, stated once and never repeated across different Moodles or webpages.
  • local course and programme calculation spreadsheets are no longer permitted: MyGrades is the only permissible system to calculate course outcomes and an institution-wide spreadsheet will be provided which uses the new calculation rules for programme aggregation (there is a temporary exception of this rule for some clinical programmes).
  • some simpler terminology has been introduced throughout, and in particular 'Schedule A to the Code of Assessment' has been renamed 'Glasgow Grading Scheme 1' (GGS1), 'Schedule B to the Code of Assessment' has been renamed 'Glasgow Grading Scheme 2' (GGS2), the Code of Assessment for Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate Programmes has been renamed Assessment Regulations, and we have formalised the terms 'Award GPA', 'First-Attempt GPA', 'deferred assessment' and 'reassessment'.
  • completing and passing annual assessment training is a requirement for every academic colleague who attends a Board of Examiners and any professional services colleagues who take part in Boards as Clerks, Assessment Officers, or Reviewers. 

Further details

Information on all of these changes is available on the following pages:

What has not changed

While we have made a lot of changes, many provisions are unchanged. These include the rules on late penalties, online examinations, examination timings and durations, marking and moderation, External Examiner criteria, study abroad, visiting students, and posthumous awards. The grading scheme descriptors are unchanged apart from the scheme titles, the description of grade H, and the removal of Credit Refused.

Changes to other codes

Plagiarism & Academic Integrity Code, and Code of Student Conduct

The 2026-27 Codes include:

  • a revision relating to the use of Generative AI (§32.3)
  • clarification of the process of Further Investigation by the School where there are concerns about the originality of submitted work (§32.11)
  • clarification of the process relating to Risk Assessment and Precautionary Measures (§33.80)

See the Plagiarism & Academic Integrity Code and the Code of Student Conduct. Queries: student-conduct@glasgow.ac.uk.

Code of Procedure for Academic Appeals

The changes to the grounds of appeal, and the move of Senate appeals to online submission via the UofG Helpdesk, are described on Supporting students: Extenuating Circumstances, DAPs and EAGR. See the Code of Procedure for Academic Appeals. Senate appeals will also be moving to an online submission process (via the UofG Helpdesk). Queries: senate-appeals@glasgow.ac.uk.

Advance notice of some changes coming in 2027-28

The Assessment Regulations were revised this year for substance; next session they will be revised to match the approach of the new Degree Regulations. The Postgraduate Research regulations, consolidated this year with no change to practice, will be simplified next session. From 2027-28, all degree outcomes will be calculated centrally on MyCampus rather than on the UPAS spreadsheets.

We recommend you now read: The new University Regulations and who they cover

Questions or feedback: policy@glasgow.ac.uk.