Attendance
We know that students succeed and achieve their best on their course when they attend lectures and engage with learning opportunities. Taught sessions give you the opportunity to learn in many different ways. Engaging with lectures and in session activities helps you to reinforce the knowledge you’ve learnt, supporting you to submit and achieve in your assessments.
We expect you to attend all of the sessions arranged as part of your course.
Engagement
In order to succeed on your course, you need to engage with the sessions, taught content, self-directed learning and assessments. You need to make sure that you have undertaken any pre-reading or pre-work that is required for the session.
It is important for your learning that you are actively engaged in sessions. This means actively participating in your learning and making consistent efforts to meet the expectations of your course.
This is more than just attending classes – it’s about being involved in all aspects of your academic experience.
Being engaged helps you build knowledge, develop skills, and make the most of the opportunities available to you.
Why is it important?
If you don’t attend or engage, this means that you are more likely to achieve lower marks or fail assessments. It can mean that you aren’t able to achieve your full potential or progress through your course. If
your attendance and engagement levels drop below our expectations, it may mean that you have missed too much to be able to catch up.
Some courses will also have additional attendance requirements expected by Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs), such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Social Work England.
As a provider of apprenticeship courses, we are also responsible for accurately tracking and documenting apprentices' attendance and engagement in both Off the Job training and any additional learning activities. This ensures compliance with the Department for Education.
If you are sponsored by the University to study as an international student on a Student Visa, monitoring of your attendance is required to ensure compliance with your visa.