Wonkhe SUs · The 2026 webinar box set
Bonus: Late submissions and extenuating circumstances
Mack Marshall walks through Wonkhe’s research into late-submission and extenuating-circumstances policies across UK universities. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- Why late submission and EC policies are a “wicked problem”
- How pandemic flexibility changed policies, and what was kept or cut
- The research findings across UK universities by mission group
- Late-submission penalties, capping, grace periods and self-certification
- What counts (and doesn't) as an extenuating circumstance, and evidence rules
- Campaigning tactics, York SU's email blockade, and what good policy looks like
Things to read
- We've read every university's policy on extensions and late submission. Here's what we found
- We looked at 26 university "fit to sit" policies. Here's what we found
- Why trust needs to be at the centre of mitigating circumstances policies
- How to respond to OIA's extenuating circumstances consultation
- Mitigating circumstances: the problem we didn't see coming
- Trusting students and reducing barriers by abolishing penalties for late work
- We need to give "special consideration" some special consideration
- A fairy tale or a horror story: the curious proposal to remove capped marks
- Is the pandemic still an extenuating circumstance?
- Now here's a way to generate some additional study space when deadlines and exams loom