► Progress

The University’s Progress Procedures are designed to monitor student performance and to investigate any reasons for an individual student’s inability to make satisfactory progress in their studies. A department can call a progress committee to discuss any reasons why you may have failed to make satisfactory progress. You should think about whether there are any mitigating circumstances that may have affected your performance during your assessments, or any other reason why you feel you may have underperformed and why you did not inform the department of this beforehand. You can submit a letter to the committee explaining this if you wish. You should be given a deadline for this in your original progress letter.

If you are invited to attend a progress meeting then you can seek advice on how to prepare your case. The LGoS Academic Adviser can guide you through the procedures and also attend a progress meeting with you as a 'friend of the University' as stated in the University's Progress Procedures.

If you have been summoned to a Faculty Progress Committee...

You MUST attend if you wish to argue your case. If you cannot attend you need to write to the sub-dean of the faculty to explain why. If you do neither of these it will be assumed that you wish to leave the university.

What happens at a Faculty Progress Committee

You will be interviewed by the Progress Committee and asked to explain any absences etc. Evidence of illness (either physical or mental), need for counselling, financial distress etc. should be provided. You are entitled to have someone from the University with you at your committee meeting, this can be a friend, personal tutor or the LGoS Academic Advisor. If you do want to have someone with you, you should inform the committee when you confirm that you will be attending.

What are the possible outcomes?

If they accept your arguments, they will expect you to repeat the year with or without attendance OR they may allow you to repeat any exams at a later date UNLESS you belong to the faculty of medicine, dentistry or veterinary science.

If they do not accept your arguement, they may declare you unsatisfactory and request that you to leave.

What if I would like to appeal the decision of the Faculty Progress Committee

If your meeting with the Progress Committee was unsuccessful,you will be sent details on how to appeal.

If a Faculty Progress Committee confirms the decision of a Board of Examiners that a student is 'unsatisfactory' or is deemed to have withdrawn, then the student may request a re-hearing by the Faculty Progress Committee, provided that, having received the written decision of the Faculty Progress Committee, the student considers that there is further evidence which should have been submitted, but which for good reason could not have been submitted, at the original hearing. In this instance, 'good reason' does not include the withholding of evidence for any sensitive personal, family or cultural reasons.

In such cases, the Chair and Secretary of the Faculty Progress Committee will decide whether or not the further eivdence establsihes a prima facie case for a re-hearing, as long as a submission is made by the student within ten days of the date of the letter giving the written deciosion. The outcome of this consideration will be communicated to the student by the Secretary of the Faculty Progress Committee. If it is judged that a prima facie case for a re-hearing exists, then that case will be heard in accordance with the procedure of the first hearing.

What if I feel I haven't been given a fair hearing?

You can appeal to the Senate Committee on Progress of Students. Appeals are normally on grounds of procedural irregularity/maladministration.

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