External References

The School's degree programmes are designed with reference to the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement and the UK Institute of Physics specification of "The Physics Degree".

The School's teaching and assessment is monitored by external examiners. These are experienced academics from other physics departments. They are consulted on significant changes to the teaching programme, and they attend module boards to monitor fairness in the assessment process and to ensure that academic standards at St Andrews are at an appropriate level compared with other UK physics and astronomy departments.