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A university and its affiliated colleges on one scheme

For universities, CampusHub runs the examination scheme centrally while affiliated colleges handle their own admissions, teaching and internal assessment. Results consolidate at university level without an export-and-merge step, and each college retains its own operations and books.

This assumes colleges follow the university scheme. Colleges with autonomy over their own scheme are a different configuration.

The characteristic problem of an affiliating university is not scale. It is that results arrive from fifty colleges in fifty slightly different shapes, and the fortnight before publication is spent normalising them.

Central
Scheme, programme structure, results publication
Local
Admissions, teaching, internals, books
Consolidation
Without normalising fifty submissions
Scale
Tens of thousands of students
01

What has to be central for consolidation to be free

If the scheme, the grade mapping and the course structure are defined once at university level, a college’s internal marks arrive already in the right shape. Consolidation becomes a query.

If any of those is defined per college, consolidation is a reconciliation — and the university spends its results fortnight resolving differences that should never have existed.

02

Where affiliated colleges legitimately differ

Sharing the scheme does not mean sharing everything.

  • Admissions. Each college admits its own students under its own process, within any university-level rules.
  • Fee structures and books. Colleges are separate entities and their accounts stay separate.
  • Teaching and internal assessment. How a component is taught and assessed is the college’s, within the scheme’s weightings.
  • Staff and workload. A college-level obligation, reported up in aggregate.
FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Can affiliated colleges keep their own admission process?

Yes. Only the academic scheme is shared. Admissions, fees, staff and internal assessment stay with each college.

How does result consolidation work?

Because colleges enter internals against a scheme defined centrally, results are already comparable. Consolidation is a query rather than a merge, which is what removes the normalisation fortnight.

Can a university run this alongside colleges on other systems?

Yes, though the colleges on other systems will still submit in their own shape and need normalising. The benefit is proportional to how many colleges share the scheme in one system.

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