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Help for 1st year fail student?

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  • The admin at Leeds Met is bloody terrible, so I'm at will to believe that he got his results late and assignments were lost.
    trying to become a moneysaving student
  • mttylad
    mttylad Posts: 1,519 Forumite
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    Absolutely.

    Although there is an element of not having done well enough on one, the one from his eye infection he did not know the so short timescale
    for redoing it and the lost one - he handed in and they just lost the written work off the back.

    Not a lot we can do about that really, they will just say yah yah you only get 10 days to appeal. he did not know about the failure email for 10 days after it had been sent. (late as it was).
  • Rosie75
    Rosie75 Posts: 609 Forumite
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    Does he not have a receipt for his written work? These are handed out as a matter of course in most universities.
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  • Can I just add that going into Uni education can often be a big shock, and very exciting social wise. Students are bombarded with timetables, induction programmes, trying to find their way around, adjusting to living away from home, making new friends etc, etc, and sometimes the little, important, things are overlooked.

    I would advise any of our students:
    - always keep their tutor informed of any difficulties they were experiencing, & of any period of non-attendance
    - if they had problems which would prevent them meeting a deadline (eg: food poisoning, eye infection, flu, being attacked etc), ask about an extension before the deadline (ours can have up to two weeks)
    - if they were having severe, unforseen, problems consider the extenuating/mitigating circumstances procedure - don't ignore the problem, however distressing, or embarassing, it may be. This procedure is/should be confidential, and whatever claim is put won't be passed to parents (presumably this is standard given that, at 18, students are classed as adults) but double check for relevant Uni.
    - don't automatically assume they will be allowed to resubmit work, tis complicated, but in some circumstances they can't
    - make sure they know the hand in date, and the resubmission date, for all items of assessment
    - always get a receipt for work submitted
    - don't be afraid to ask for help, be it from the course admin team, student services, tutors etc - be persistent

    And crikey, the rules and regs at Leeds are a bit hard going! Don't they have a simpler undergraduate student handbook!

    Also - my comments are based on rules & regs at the University where I work. They are not to be taken as standard. They are a guideline only - please double check rules & regs at your Uni, ask questions.

    I;ll shut up now :D
  • geekgirl
    geekgirl Posts: 998 Forumite
    mttylad wrote: »
    The sciences are a lot harder to complete, which is why I said that to say that it IMO is not as complex as some of the harder courses.

    Well to be honest my son is doing sound design technology which involves lots of physics and other science principles, so is not easy.
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