The university has a number of policies relevant to your studies. Please at least make yourselves aware that these policies exist and cover the topics named. Ideally you’d read them too.
- Guidance on Maintaining Academic Integrity: there are fundamental values we try to uphold as academics, and these policies outline what they are, and what you can expect if you breach standards and expectations.
- Personal Circumstances and Academic Appeals: we hope that everything will run smoothly, but life happens. When this interferes with your studies these are personal circumstances and they can be accounted for when you are assessed.
- Dignity and Respect: you have a right to protection from bullying, harassment, victimisation, and discrimination.
- Social Media and Virtual Learning Environments: we all have a responsibility to create and maintain a healthy online environment - stay respectful in your communications.
- Extensions to Coursework Submission: guidelines for the circumstances in which you may request extra time to complete coursework.
- Late Submission of Coursework: what penalties you might expect to be applied for late submission of coursework.
- The Use of Turnitin: how you can expect us to use Turnitin to detect potential academic misconduct.
- Student Discipline Procedures: how you can expect the university to deal with cases of misconduct.
- Voluntary Suspension: how you can expect the university to handle a request to interrupt your studies.
- Criminal Proceeedings and Criminal Convictions: how you can expect the university to deal with criminal charges and convictions.
- Fitness to Practise: how the university will respond to concerns about a student’s Fitness to Practise.
- Student Module Evaluation: the principles behind module evaluation, and how the university uses the feedback.