Academic Appeals

An academic appeal is a request to review a decision of the Programme Assessment Board. This is a formal process, guided by specific regulations. You can find a copy of these regulations here: Academic Appeal Regulations (2025/26)

You must submit your academic appeal within five working days of the publication of the Programme Assessment Board results on myNapier. You may be made aware of your result in advance of these dates, but this will only be a provisional result and cannot be appealed until officially published. The assessment publication dates and appeal deadlines are found on this page: Making an appeal (Sometimes nursing and midwifery results can be published outside these dates and if in doubt please contact your module or programme leader). 

Grounds for an Appeal

You may only appeal if your circumstances meet at least one of the University's two grounds for an academic appeal. These are:  

• There is evidence to indicate that the Programme Assessment Board or the Academic Committee of the Doctoral College, has made a decision which is not consistent with the University regulations and/or procedures. 
  Examples of this could be something like the university stating a student has exhausted all their assessment attempts when they have not 

• There is evidence to indicate that there was an apparent error in the recording, transcription or reporting of assessment results, the delivery of their programme or the assessment process. 
  Examples of this could be something like being told something has been removed from the syllabus and not taught it and it appears in an assessment  

The Academic Appeals Regulations 2025-26 give examples of grounds on which academic appeals will not be considered. For example, you cannot appeal because you dispute the academic or professional judgement of an examiner. 

How to Submit an Appeal

To submit an academic appeal, you should contact appeals@napier.ac.uk to inform them of your circumstances and advise them of your intention to appeal a decision of the Programme Assessment Board. You should inform them of: 

• Which of the two grounds from the appeals regulations you are appealing under 

• The circumstances of your situation 

• The module and assessment piece you are appealing 

• Any evidence you have (Emails, documents, files etc.)  

Someone from the appeals team will consider your appeal and once you have had a reply confirming that you have valid grounds for appealing, you should complete and submit the AP1 Form that they send you, along with any evidence, within the requested timeline. 

Further information is available here: Making an appeal. 

We advise you to book an appointment with one of our advisers for guidance on the process and to get feedback on your appeal submission.