Unfortunately, your certificate won’t be produced and quality checked in time for graduation. As such we will send these in the post to your Home address. Please make sure your address is up to date before graduation and keep us in formed of any changes to address as soon as possible. Alternatively, you can contact the Exams Team before Results Day to request a collection and we will let you know when your certificate has arrived and is ready to be picked up.

All degrees obtained from Leeds Conservatoire are validated by the University of Hull, who supply the certificates to us. Your certificate will also state that the course is delivered by Leeds Conservatoire and your transcript will highlight the affiliation as well.

No, universities in England as a whole do not provide electronic copies of certificates or scanned copies to ensure authenticity. However, once results have been sent out to you via email you can download a copy of your transcript for up to 30 days, through MyPortal; after this a request can be made to the Exams Team for a copy of your transcript.

The Exams Team are happy to send a letter of verification along with a copy of your transcript to any employer or postgraduate institution while you await your certificate. Please contact us to request this, providing the contact details for where the verification should be sent.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name, and this will also be the name we put on the envelope when it is posted. If you change your legal name after finishing studies as part of the process of gender transition, a new certificate and transcript may be issued. You will need to send proof of the change to the Exams Team to request this. A new certificate and transcript will not be issued If you change your name for any other purpose, for example marriage or preference.

An email will be sent to your Leeds Conservatoire email account on the following date: 

Final Year Undergraduates: Thursday 16 July 

Foundation Year, Year 1 & 2: Tuesday 21 July 

Resit Results (all years): Thursday 3 September 

Depending on the mark received, the weighting of the assessment, and other assessment(s) within the module, it may still be possible to pass the module overall. For example, if you fail an essay worth 25% of the overall module mark, there is still the remaining assessment worth 75%, which, depending on your mark, may allow you to pass the module overall meaning a resit isn’t required. 

If you have any questions regarding your marks and feedback we suggest you contact your tutor or Module Coordinator in the first instance. 

Formal appeals cannot be made until your marks have been ratified by the Board of Examiners and you have received your official results. See below for the appeals process. 

It’s worth noting that it is not possible for a student to request a review of a mark given, a remark or appeal against ‘academic judgement’ (this being the judgement related to the mark or grade that you have been awarded for an assessment). Leeds Conservatoire has robust procedures for marking and feedback in place which includes a second marking process, University of Hull moderation and External Examiner review. Although major changes to marks are rare these reviews help ensure our standards and provide consistency and fairness in the marking process. 

Formal appeals must be submitted within 10 working days of receiving your official results (result dates noted above). Grounds for appeal can be found on the Student Information site – https://students.leedsconservatoire.ac.uk/assessment/appeals/ and are noted below 

1. that there were material circumstances that were not brought to the attention of the relevant Committee, Board of Examiners or Panel at the time of their decision, that would have led them to a different decision; and there is good reason why the circumstances were not presented at the appropriate time. 
   
2. that there were procedural irregularities in the conduct of the assessment process (including administrative error), of such a nature as to cause reasonable doubt as to whether the examiners would have reached the same conclusion had the irregularities not occurred; 
   
3. that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the recommendation or decision was influenced by prejudice or bias on the part of one or more of the examiners.