Academic Support
During your time at University, you may need advice about an academic issue. The Students' Union offers an independent and confidential advice service, which can advise and guide students through the University’s academic regulations. The Full-time Officers can support and represent students facing fitness to practice, allegations of plagiarism (unfair practice) or a disciplinary due to misconduct at University hearings.
The University expects you to be familiar with your course handbook and the academic regulations. Both can appear to be quite complex, but the full time officers will be happy to sit down and help you to understand them.
Attendance is very important. However, if, for unavoidable reasons, you need to miss some of your timetabled activities, here’s what you need to do:
For short absences (less than 10 working days), email your course leader. For absences of 10 days or more, you have to request an authorisation of absence.
In some cases, students can request to suspend their studies for a year.
Click through the sidebar for more information on the different areas of academic support.