What do I need to do to get a degree?

The Student Guide to Rules for Progression and Award explains what you need to do to progress through your degree programme and how you can calculate your current classification marks along the way.

Nursing & Midwifery Countil (NMC) '12 week rule' & progression

Following the removal of the ‘12 week rule’ from the NMC Emergency Standards the Department is required, in line with University Progression rules, to ensure students have successfully achieved all summative assessment for the stage they are on before formally progressing to the next. Formal progression is signed off to align with the NMC 12 week rule and therefore you are still required to have successfully completed all summative assessment and obtained all credit for the previous stage by this point.

Where exceptional circumstances prevent all outcomes being achieved by assessment dates stipulated on the assessment schedules, students will be permitted to continue with the teaching in the next stage during the period between Week 1 of the Autumn Term and the 12 weeks that follow this. Any outstanding summative assessment for modules of the previous stage must be successfully completed by the end of the 12th week after the start of the Autumn Term in order to continue with your current cohort past this point.

Students failing to achieve all summative assessments for modules on the previous stage within this timeframe may be required to take a Leave of Absence in order to address outstanding summative module assessment on the previous Stage of the programme, before returning to the following cohort to pick up teaching from the point of programme suspension.