Student policies 2025-26
Unlinked policies will be added when they become available.
- Policy and regulations updates for 2025-26
- Summary of key regulations, policies and terms and conditions (PDF)
- Corporate policies
Admissions and student status
- Accreditation of prior learning policy (PDF)
- Admissions policy (PDF)
- Break in study policy (PDF)
- Criminal convictions policy (PDF)
- List of programmes with restrictions for students with criminal convictions (PDF)
- Data protection policy (PDF)
- Death of a student procedure (PDF)
- Discontinuation of registration (PDF)
- Student pregnancy and parental leave (PDF)
- Terms and conditions of study 2025-26 (PDF)
- Under 18 admissions policy (PDF)
- Wellness and support policy (PDF)
Teaching, learning and assessment
- External examiners policy (PDF)
- Feedback on assessment (PDF)
- Intercollegiate study policy (PDF)
- Late submission of work for assessment (PDF)
- Marking and moderation policy (PDF)
- Mitigating circumstances policy and procedure (PDF)
- Guidance on mitigating circumstances procedure
- Online and remote assessment policy (PDF)
- Peer review of teaching (PDF)
- Personal tutoring (PDF)
- Plagiarism prevention document (PDF)
- Recording of lectures and other teaching sessions (PDF)
- Student engagement and attendance policy (PDF)
- Sub-boards of examiners policy (PDF)
- Supervised dissertations and research projects for taught students (PDF)
- Suspension of regulations (PDF)
- Teaching a module at different academic levels policy (PDF)
Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals
- Academic integrity and misconduct policy (PDF)
- AI guidance (PDF)
- Academic integrity statement for students (PDF)
- Appeals policy (taught students) (PDF)
- Appeals form (taught students) (Word)
- Children on campus policy (PDF)
- Complaints policy and procedure (PDF)
- Complaints form (Word)
- Quick guide for complaints (PDF)
- Dignity at Work and Study principles
- Faith, belief and religion statement (PDF)
- Free speech policy and procedure (PDF)
- Safeguarding policy and procedure (PDF)
- Social media principles (PDF)
- Student discipline policy (PDF)
- Supporting good academic practice (PDF)
- Supporting transgender, intersex and gender non-binary students (PDF)
Fees and payment
- Fee assessment policy (PDF)
- Fees policy (PDF)
- Income, expenditure and value for money statement
Research students
- Appeals policy (research) (PDF)
- Appeals form (research students) (Word)
- Distance learning PhD guidance and procedure (PDF)
- Guidance for Statement of Contribution
- Guidelines for online research degree vivas
- Joint registration of research degree programmes (PDF)
- Maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave for research students (PDF)
- MPhil to PhD upgrade expectations (PDF)
- Procedure and guidance for independent chairs
- Postgraduate training and research for MPhil and PhD degrees: code of practice (PDF)
- Writing up policy (PDF)
View policies that were in place for 2024-25.