An examiner who is not from the institution attended by the students who are taking the exams being marked.
he remained at New College until 1977 and served as an external examiner to almost a score of universities
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- The duties of the external examiner vary from university to university and occasionally from department to department.
- The key tests will now become part of a broader assessment of children's abilities by teachers themselves - not external examiners.
- His academic colleagues visited Ghana as lecturers and external examiners of the medical school in the early years.
- The concept of collaboration is found in both the role and functions of an external examiner.
- She suffered a series of literary knockbacks until her work was marked by an external examiner during a creative writing course.
- The five-day on-site visit begins when the external examiner arrives at the host institution.
- The authors were external examiners for a nursing program in a developing country during a five-year period ending in 1997.
- He has been a consultant on many television programmes, and is an external examiner at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
- External examiners also review study programmes, and provide training to local educators.
- He does not have the qualification to act either as my supervisor or as an external examiner.
- He was an external examiner in surgery for a dozen universities in the British Isles and abroad.