Student Policies and Procedures
The University's Senate has approved five new or revised student-facing procedures for implementation from 1 August 2010:
- Academic Appeals Procedure
- Academic Misconduct Procedure
- Fitness for Professional Practice Procedure (College of Health and Social Care)
- Student Complaints Procedure
- Student Disciplinary Procedure
These procedures were revised or developed by the Governance Services Unit (GSU) after commissioning external legal advice and consulting widely across the institution. They seek generally to remove unnecessary layers of consideration and to devolve responsibility, when appropriate, to a more local level. The procedures are intended to be internally consistent and as plainly worded as the complexity of their respective processes allows.
The documents setting out the procedures are being made available here and are accompanied by supporting material used in general awareness-raising and specific training sessions during June and July 2010.
The supporting material comprises:
General
Student Disciplinary Procedure / Academic Misconduct Procedure / Fitness for Professional Practice Procedure (Fitness To Study)
Student Disciplinary Procedures
- Case Studies with outcome
- Proforma for a Record of Consideration of an Allegation by a Head of School or Nominee
- Frequently Asked Questions
Academic Misconduct Procedure
- Case Studies with outcome
- Assessed Work Cover Sheet (Declaration on Conduct of Assessed Work)
- Proforma for a Record of Consideration of an Allegation by the Academic Misconduct Panel
- Notification of Suspected Cases of Academic Misconduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Bought or commissioned work - guidance to support the Academic Misconduct Procedure
- Guidance Notes for Secretaries to Academic Misconduct Panels
- Letter Template - Academic Poor Practice
- Letter Template - Outcome - Not Guilty
- Letter Template - Outcome - Zero for Component
- Letter Template - Outcome - Zero for Module
- Letter Template - Outcome - Zero for Module and Level Cap
- Letter Template - Referral to Academic Misconduct Panel
- Letter Template - Referral to Disciplinary Panel
- Case Studies
- Cases Referred to Disciplinary Panel
Fitness for Professional Practice Procedure
- Frequently Asked Questions (to follow)
Academic Appeals Procedure / Student Complaints Procedure
Academic Appeals Procedure
Student Complaints Procedure
- Case Studies A with outcome
- Case Studies B with outcome
- Proforma - Formal Procedure Stage 2 and Above
- Frequently Asked Questions
In addition, a new Fitness for Study Procedure, developed by the Student Life Directorate, has been approved by Senate for implementation from 1 August 2010. This is an intervention procedure for students causing significant concern and/or presenting risk of harm to self or others.