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Education Committee has approved the following changes to the Student Support Framework, for the 2024-25 academic year. These changes will feature in the updated Academic Manual from 1 September.
1. Introducing the Delayed Assessment Scheme
From 2024/25 all taught students will have a new method for managing short term pressures on their workload through the introduction of the Delayed Assessment Scheme. The Scheme, which replaces self-certified extenuating circumstances, gives all students three permits per year to that can be used to either extend the deadline for one piece of coursework by five working days, or defer an exam to the next normal assessment period. Students do not need to request permission to use a permit, they simply inform us by using the Delayed Assessment Scheme task in Portico.
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Students who require other forms of mitigation, or who use up their three permits, will still be able to apply for support through the extenuating circumstances process. All applications via this process will be subject to review and approval and should be accompanied by relevant supporting evidence.听
The Scheme has been introduced to give students greater agency to manage their own workload, to reduce the significant overhead related to the self-certification process (which saw more than 90% of applications approved without question) and to reflect the reality that, in most workplaces, a five working day period of self-certification is a normal provision.
Find out more about the Delayed Assessment Scheme.听
2. Changes to the Support to Study Process
Following the first full year of operation for the Support to Study process, we are making some improvements that will empower faculties to take necessary supportive action earlier in the year.听
From 2024/25, a Faculty Tutor (or colleague operating in an equivalent role) can mandate an interruption of study in certain, defined circumstances, where it is felt that remaining on the programme for the remainder of the year will be significantly detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the student, where support mechanisms already implemented have been ineffective, and where progression or award is deemed to be at high risk.
A mandatory interruption will be managed in accordance with the standard interruption regulations.听