Important changes to Oxford Brookes BSc degree eligibility criteria

Hi,

My 10 year period expired in June 2020. May I know if I am eligible for the OBU degree under the new rule ?

This is where I stand – in the 10 year period since I registered as an ACCA student I sat for the Tax and FM exams once each and was unsuccessful I’m both. I didn’t attempt any other exams as I was overwhelmed with work.

Since this pandemic began I have decided to pursue ACCA again. May I know if I complete all 9 knowledge and skills level exams in 2020/2021, if I can submit my RAP in the November 2021 submission period?

What does completing 3 ACCA exams in the last 5 years mean – since no specific dates are given does this mean say for eg if I want to submit in the NoVember 2021 period I should have 3 passes in skills/professional level subjects in the period between November 2016 and November 2021?

Thanks

Yes

Should I have ALREADY passed 3 subjects – yes

And if u meet all the other eligibility criteria.

My interpretation of this, given that English is my mother tongue, is that you may have reached the 10 year limit but because you may for example have passed exams within the last few years, you can be granted an extension of up to 5 years – starting presumably from the first of the 3 most recently passed exams

You don’t submit the RAP first and then pass the exams which is what you are implying by the use of the word ‘future’ in your original question

My understanding as per the Programme Lead’s explanation is that this is EITHER / OR

i.e. where a student is still within the 10 years of registration then there is no issue

or If this has been exceeded, then the 5 year rule would come into effect:

i.e. provided they have shown currency of knowledge by having passed 3 skills or professional papers within the 5 year period before submission of the RAP, they may submit – but the implication is that this period would end after the 5 years if no further exams are passed.

So for submissions in November 2021 this would mean having passed the 3 exams no earlier than November 2016 (otherwise it would not be before 5 years of submitting the RAP). Provided they are still eligible to sit exams then a pass/passes anytime up to and including October 2021 sounds permissible.under the new rule.

There may though then be an issue for re-submissions as the 5 year rule implies it is rolling period and that would concur with the 10 year rule – that a student had to pass the RAP before the 10 year rule is exceeded. So papers passed in 2016 would not probably count if the RAP were failed and a resubmission were needed in 2022 (but any more recent exams would then be taken into account).

The OBU objective seems to put the emphasis on recency/currency of skills and knowledge and anything outside of the 5 years up to submission is not eligible – though the resubmission scenario set out above has not yet been clarified (or hadn’t been when I last looked). However for the rule to make sense I would expect it to be more or less as I have outlined

Is it fair to say we decide in which submission period we are going to submit and then go back 5 years from that date and see if we have 3 passes to demonstrate currency of knowledge ?