Regulation XVI

Learning and Teaching Committee

Regulation XVI: Tuition Fees and Payments for other University Services

Programme Quality Team

Learning and Teaching Committee is asked to approve the following amendments to Regulation XVI. These are associated with the use of Learn by ‘resit students’.

PQ Team noted that there had been issues concerning access to learning resources on Learn for students registered to resit during the academic year without tuition. PQT welcomed the fact that such students had now been given access to Learn facilities for their resit modules, notwithstanding the fact that they were not paying tuition fees, and agreed with the suggestion that they should be regarded as resitting ‘without attendance’ rather than ‘without tuition’.

Suspension of Progression and Awards and Module Registration – Taught Students

14. Taught students must meet all obligations to the University by a date five working days in advance of the meeting of the relevant Programme Board. Failure to meet this deadline will result in the following action;

i. if the decision of the board is that the student would otherwise receive an award, no award will be made until all obligations have been met.

ii. if the decision of the board is that the student would otherwise be permitted to progress to the next Part of their programme, progression will not be permitted until all obligations have been met, save that the Academic Registrar may set a maximum outstanding obligations level each academic year below which progression may be permitted for all students.

iii. if the decision of the board is that the student has failed and has outstanding reassessment rights, the student shall be permitted to exercise these rights, but without ~~tuition~~ attendance only.

iv. if the decision of the board is that the student's studies should be terminated, the student shall be classified as a permanent leaver in debt to the University.

15. Where, at the start of an academic year, a postgraduate taught student has outstanding obligations incurred in a previous academic year, that student shall not be permitted to register on any further modules or to ~~receive tuition in~~ attend any reassessment modules until all such obligations are met.

16. Where a taught student is not permitted to register on, ~~receive tuition in~~ attend or be assessed in the next Part of their programme in accordance with paragraph 14 hereof or to register on modules in accordance with paragraph 15 hereof, the maximum time limits outlined in paragraph 11 of Regulation XX or paragraph 7 of Regulation XXI shall not be extended to take account of any resultant period of inactivity.

Date – June 2009