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September 2006 edition
Students are expected to attend scheduled classes. To ensure that this happens more consistently than is presently the case, the following policy must be implemented by all academic tutors from 1 February 2002.
Student attendance must now be monitored systematically, which should include an auditable mechanism per module to cover any three-week period.
Where a student has failed to attend a module for a period of three weeks, academic tutors must inform the person nominated by their course (whether course leader/year tutor/course administrator or whoever is allocated this responsibility) of this continuing absence. This policy also applies to modules that are serviced by another School. (The monitoring over three consecutive weeks is a minimum requirement and Schools may prefer to make the initial contact after one - or two-weeks absence in order to establish a more staged process).
This nominated person must then check whether the absence extends to 2 modules or 30 credits worth of study across the course (whichever is the lower). There should be a pro-rata calculation for part-time students.
Where such an absence occurs, the student must be contacted to discover why he/she is failing to attend adequately. If this student then fails to respond to this approach, the Dean must then send a standard University-wide letter, which states that unless the student responds within seven working days he/she will be deemed to have withdrawn from the University on the grounds of non-attendance. (In extreme cases, a student who responds to this letter by offering extenuating circumstances for the lengthy period of absence may attend a meeting, with the opportunity of being accompanied by a friend/family member, to present his/her explanation. If the explanation is accepted then a formal Restart interview can re-establish the student on the course of study).