The University continuously monitors your attendance and engagement with your studies to ensure that you remain on track with your studies. The University will contact you by email if either is deemed to be unsatisfactory. This is to make you aware of what needs to be done, and also to make you aware of support which is available.
You can view the email template.
What the University will do
- Monitor your attendance and coursework submission weekly to ensure you remain on track with your studies
- Undertake mid-year and summer progress checks for undergraduate students on the tab below
- Implement a postgraduate research monitoring framework for postgraduate research students on the tab below.
- Monitor the progress of postgraduate taught students at each stage of the degree programme. You can see the details of this in the tab below.
- Ensure our Student Visa Holders meet the monitoring requirements of their student visa. For information on monitoring while under a student visa please contact the Student Immigration Compliance Team
Related information
- Undergraduate Progression Exercises
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In addition to the weekly C6, C7 student monitoring, the University checks on how well undergraduate students are progressing with their studies twice each year via the Mid-Year and Summer Progress exercises. This is to ensure you are given appropriate and timely advice on how to keep on track for progressing to the next level of study and successful completion of your programme.
Mid-year Progress Exercise
Summer Progress Exercise
Credit Point Shortfall - Honours Level
This section contains information for undergraduate students in Arts & Social Sciences, Divinity, Education, Engineering, Law and Science who have failed a course at Honours Level (Level 3 or 4).
I have failed a course at Level 3 or 4. What should I do?
Candidates for Non-Honours degrees
Honours Classification
Minimum Credit Requirement for Degrees
- Postgraduate Research Monitoring
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Framework for monitoring progress
In order to assist with completing your programme, research students must undergo monitoring assessments every six months. Progress during your research degree will depend on the successful completion of these assessments.
The University also has a generic monitoring framework. Schools adapt the framework to suit their needs.
The framework consists of:
- the development of a strong interactive relationship between the research student and the supervisor(s);
- monitoring of the research student's progress and performance at the School level by the Head of School;
- ensuring the quality assurance of postgraduate progress, education, training and development across Schools by a University-wide monitoring system.
While each Schools uses different methods and forms for monitoring assessment, all Schools will inform how they monitor research students.
You should also keep in mind that your eligibility to submit your thesis is based on you also having satisfied the attendance monitoring requirements.
Guidelines for dealing with unsatisfactory progress
If your progress is unsatisfactory, you will be contact your School to arrange a meeting between you and the Head of School.
You can find more information on the responsibilities of your supervisors in the Code of Practice: Postgraduate Research Students
- Postgraduate Taught Monitoring
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Postgraduate taught programmes consist of stages, with each stage usually worth 60 credits. To progress from one stage to another, you normally need to pass all assessments at that stage.
You should also keep in mind that your eligibility for progression is based on you also having satisfied the attendance monitoring requirements.
In order to achieve either a Certificate, Diploma, or Masters, you need the following:
- For a Postgraduate Certificate, you need to achieve 60 credits with normally grade of D3 or better.
- For a Postgraduate Diploma, you need to achieve 120 credits with normally grade of D3 or better.
- For a Master's Degree, you need to achieve 180 credits with normally grade of D3 or better.
Guidelines for dealing with unsatisfactory progress
Your progress is examined at the end of each stage of the programme. If you have not met the criteria for progression, the School will inform you in writing.
If you do not achieve the award you are registered for (e.g. Master's Degree or Postgraduate Diploma), and if you are qualified for a lower award, your can be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate.
You can find more information in the Code of Practice: Postgraduate Taught Students in the section entitled 'Assessment and Progression'.