Attendance

You should attend all scheduled teaching sessions, and use the student Check-In system. Regular attendance is vital to succeed in your degree programme. If you cannot attend a teaching session, you must inform the module leader before the session.

University Regulations state that you should be present at any time at which teaching or other academic engagements have been arranged for your programme. This includes teaching that is not compulsory.

Information on reported non-attendance can be shared with your personal supervisor. This information will be non-sensitive and will only refer to the dates of the reported non-attendance. This is intended to alert the relevant staff to any concerns about your attendance which may indicate that you require pastoral support.

Overseas students

The Department has an obligation to monitor attendance of all overseas students who have been issued with a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) for which the University acts a sponsor under the Student Visa route of the Points-Based Immigration System (PBIS).

As such, throughout the course of your study there are a number of engagement points which will be recorded in the University’s Student Record System, details of which can be found on the Attendance Requirements website.

Failure to keep to the expected points of contact can jeopardise your academic progress and your visa status.

Assessments are compulsory. You must complete all assessments by the published assessment date unless there are exceptional reasons why you are unable to do so. Please see the University policy on Exceptional Circumstances where the details on acceptable reasons for deferring an assessment are made clear.

Absence

If you are ill during teaching weeks, please notify the University via your e:Vision account (in the "Your Support" section). You can self-certify for a maximum of ten days in any one academic year, with a maximum of seven days for any one period of illness.

An absence of over seven days, but no longer than four weeks, can be approved by the Chair of the Postgraduate Teaching Committee. Any longer absence requires the approval of University Special Cases. See the information on taking a Leave of Absence

If you stop attending scheduled teaching sessions without saying you are withdrawing and do not respond to our efforts to make contact with you within a specified time-scale, the Board of Studies will assume that you have withdrawn from your studies. This is known as ‘assumed withdrawal’.