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School of English Deadlines 2011-12
This applies to all modules offered by the School of English.
For a full list of deadlines for the Spring Term please click here
It explains the force of these deadlines, the procedures for seeking any extension to the deadline and the grounds on which extensions can and cannot be considered. It reiterates basic information about this in the Handbook on the School website but goes into more detail.
Coming in advance of the deadlines this term, this posting is intended to make these matters clear to all students to whom it applies. No claim of ignorance will therefore be accepted as an excuse for failure to meet with its requirements.
PLEASE THEREFORE READ AND TAKE THESE POINTS ON BOARD
- All students – One copy of the essay must be submitted to the School Office (or to another agreed submission point at the other campuses for part-time students) and one copy via MOODLE and you must attach a receipt to the hard copy of the essay.
- Failure to submit both hard copy and the moodle copy may result in a mark of 0 for your essay.
- Essays that miss the deadline will not be accepted and so will receive marks of zero (except where arrangements for late submission have been formally agreed: see below).
English does not operate a system of graded penalties whereby fixed tariffs of marks are deducted from late work: either an essay is deemed acceptable, and so gets the full mark that it merits, or it is not, in which case it does not get a mark.
EXTENSIONS
- Extensions to the deadline can be granted ONLY by your Student Support officer Emma Bainbridge
Seminar leaders can not grant extensions, so don’t apply to them for any extension. - Grounds include significant, unforeseen disruption to your study time due to illness or exceptional personal circumstances (eg bereavement, divorce).
They do NOT include routine academic difficulties with the work or mismanagement of workload leading to difficulties in getting everything done on time.
Medical evidence will be expected with applications on medical grounds; other kinds of evidence or tutorial support will be sought with applications made on personal grounds.
PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE DURING THE TERM ASKED THE MEDICAL CENTRE TO SEND THE STUDENT SUPPORT OFFICER A ‘CONCESSIONS LETTER’ THAT IS NOT ITSELF AN APPLICATION FOR A CONCESSIONARY EXTENSION. YOU NEED TO SEE THE STUDENT SUPPORT OFFICER AND COMPLETE AN EXTENSION FORM. - Students who have an acknowledged long-term health problem or registered disability such as entitles them to extended time on assignments should still go through the application process.
It is important that the length of extensions is agreed; also that there is a full record of concessionary allowances extended to you - Students who fail to submit essays on or by the deadline and are not in receipt of a formal extension will be required to submit a departmental Concession form. This form will need to be completed as soon after the deadline as possible and MUST be accompanied by supporting evidence.
- Students claiming that they have lost work due to computer failure will not get Concessions.
The University directs that students always back up frequently (on a networked drive, on a memory stick) any essay work that they are doing on university or personal computers, and does not consider concessions application from students who have not done this and whose work is lost as a result. - For additional information please see the Student Support website