Attendance
General Attendance
You are required to attend all formal teaching sessions (lectures, seminars, workshops and field trips) both face to face and online. A register will be taken at each seminar and workshop session. Attendance and engagement (in the case of asynchronous online sessions) will be registered and recorded in Tabula. You should prepare fully for each scheduled session by doing the required reading and preparing any work (such as presentations or briefings). You should attend your formal assessments and examinations at the designated time and place and observe all rules regarding conduct during a formal examination. These can be found in Regulation 10: Examination Regulations.
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/gov/calendar/section2/regulations/examregs/
Our taught courses are demanding and intensive. Normally students are expected to devote the equivalent of a 37.5-hour week to each week of their studies, including reading, research and preparation time, not just lectures, seminars and workshops. Students may have difficulty meeting the attendance and reading requirements if they take on a significant amount of paid work while studying. Students who live a great distance from the university campus may also struggle to complete the course successfully.
Monitoring Points
To help us to gauge how successfully you are engaging with your course, identify any problems which you may be experiencing and offer support to help you, the department has a number of check points throughout the year. If you miss any of the points, this might indicate that you are having problems with the course and need additional support. These monitoring points are available to see on Tabula.
It is extremely important that you meet the requirements of each point as failure to do so could result in a letter being sent to you from Student Records reminding you of your obligations as a student.
International students should be particularly aware of the consequences of missing contact points: the Academic Office is obliged to report to the Home Office UK Visas and Immigration (formerly the UK Border Agency) if any Tier 4 students have been found not to be engaging with and attending their degree course. This will normally lead to the curtailment of their visas.
Tier 4 sponsored postgraduate students should ensure that the PG Coordinator is informed of any overseas research trips.
Please speak to your Personal Tutor if you feel you might be at risk of not meeting these critical requirements at any point during your University career.
Monitoring points schemes
Absence from Classes
If you are prevented from attending a seminar or study trip because of illness or serious personal problems, you must inform the department and seminar tutor as soon as possible. Give the reason for your absence (you need only specify ‘illnesses, ‘family problems’, etc. You need not give details) and say when you think that you are likely to be back in attendance. Failure to do this may result in you missing your monitoring points, and further consequences.
If your absence is less than five days, you may self-certify your absence. Note that you will not usually be permitted to self-certify an absence on more than two occasions in any one year. If your absence is of more than five consecutive days or is a third or more occasion, you should in accordance with University rules provide documentation, for example a doctor's certificate.
Absence from Exams
If you are unable to attend an exam or scheduled summative presentation/group project because of medical reasons, you must obtain and submit a medical note to cover your absence. You must submit this note as soon as possible after the exam or presentation and no later than three days after the date of your last exam. The relevant Exam Board will consider your case and may direct you to take the exam in September or in the following summer. Regulation 12: Absence for Medical Reasons from a University Examination for First Degrees governs this procedure:
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/gov/calendar/section2/regulations/absence/