The phrase "external examiner" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to someone, usually an academic, who is brought in to review or mark a student's work. For example: "The professor asked an external examiner to review the student's final project".
The assignments and examinations are further checked by several Coventry University subject specialists and an external examiner.
Of the 1259 examiners, 1037 (82.4%) examined only in the UK, 119 (9.5%) examined only outside the UK (in what was usually their home country or a nearby centre), and 103 (8.2%) examined both in and out of the UK, usually being the external examiner sent to a non-UK centre to work with the local examiner.
He was an external examiner at pharmacology departments in the UK, and abroad.
Graham Crow, professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh, remembers him as an external examiner.
A UCU spokesperson said: "We've been inundated with calls from members who are resigning from their external examiner posts.
The external examiner looked at the paper and insisted – rightly – that it had been marked too leniently and failed it.
In an effort to ensure that the EM training program at the University Sains Malaysia maintains international standards, they have been networking with international EM bodies and practitioners including participation of international EM professionals in the annual professional examinations as external examiners [17].
It also said the university had appointed Greek-based external examiners with no experience of teaching or examining in the UK, leaving the university with only limited means by which to judge academic standards.
Considering there are 25 medical schools, the cost of multiple external examiners for each medical school can be substantial, yet the outcomes of external examining are not as objective as a national licensing examination.
The examination papers were transferred between the participants (lecturers, administrators and external examiners) using secure electronic mail.
These processes, it is true, invariably involve external examiners – generally subject-specialists from other universities – but evidence I presented in my University of Buckingham inaugural lecture in June suggested that the external-examiner system has in many respects broken down.
