Academic Regulations 2010/11 - Academic Registry and Council ...

Academic Regulations 2010/11Part 2 – General Regulations2.54. QMUL will give a student formal, written notification of the intention to de-register andspecific deadline by which he/she can pay the relevant fee or charge before deregistrationwill occur. If no payment has been received by this time and the studentis still in debt to QMUL, then the student’s registration and enrolment will beterminated and he/she will cease to be a student of QMUL.2.55. An individual whose registration as a student has been terminated may appealagainst the decision in accordance with the College Appeal Regulations (CAR).Attendance and participation2.56. Attendance refers to QMUL’s expectations with regard to the way in which studentsengage with the teaching, learning and assessment requirements for theirprogramme of study. Attendance may or may not require physical attendance:distance learning students attend their programme through participation in learning,teaching and assessment activities.2.57. QMUL specifies and publishes term, semester and examination dates as well as thehours of operation. QMUL delivers learning, teaching and assessment activitiesduring such dates and during the hours of operation. Students are expected to beavailable to participate in teaching, learning and assessment activities during termand semester dates and during hours of operation. Where assessment, learning orteaching activities take place during periods that are not specified as semester orterm dates e.g. field courses students are still expected to attend these.2.58. QMUL expects students to ensure that a particular programme or module isacceptable to him/her prior to registration and that he/she is able to meet theattendance, learning and assessment requirements for that programme and/ormodule. QMUL is not able to change the regulations and requirements or schedulingof programmes or modules to meet an individual student’s needs.2.59. Students are expected to attend regularly all forms of learning activities associatedwith their programme of study and participate in their programme as required byQMUL. Students are required to complete all assessment for the modules they areregistered for as prescribed by the relevant module regulations.2.60. Students may not be absent from QMUL during term-time without obtaining writtenagreement in advance of their Head of School/ Institute. Where the reason forabsence or failure to complete assessment is due to illness or other such causewhich is unplanned and outside of the student’s control, students are expected tosubmit a claim for extenuating circumstances and provide appropriate documentaryevidence.Taking a module2.61. A student who registers for a module is deemed to be taking that module or havetaken it whether or not deregistration/withdrawal follows. A student who transfers toanother module replaces the initial module taken with the one transferred onto.9 The Ordinances can be found on line at;http://www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/council/charter_statutes_ordinances/index.htmlPage 27 of 110