The University has provided safety guidelines for new and current students, and details of the measures in place can be found here. Further information about protecting staff and students can be found in your Handbook.

Student Immigration has summarised the types of scams and fraud that targets international students on their webpage. Please take some time to read this guidance and familiarise yourself with the particular scams to be aware of. More information can also be found here.

We are planning to deliver teaching in the Autumn and Spring Terms through in-person lectures and classes. Some modules will also be supplemented by pre-recorded content covering fundamental theoretical material. Revision lectures will be held in the Summer term, prior to the examination period.

Support and Feedback classes

Support and Feedback (S&F) classes are compulsory classes where tutors will analyse more in depth topics covered in the lectures. S&F classes are usually delivered in small groups of students. Optional core modules have one hour per week of classes and these will be taught in-person.

We recommend that you complete the Learning to Learn in Economics Moodle course during your induction period to familiarise yourself with our approach to teaching and learning.

Your individual timetable can be viewed online using Tabula, and it will be complete when you are registered for all modules, core and optional, and you have signed up to your module Support and Feedback classes and any other timetabled teaching. We will email you once class sign-up opens in Tabula. You can view the timetable for all the MSc synchronous lectures and classes for your Autumn Term modules here. The timetable for MRes modules can be found here. Asynchronous (pre-recorded) lectures will be available via the Moodle page for each module.

During your time with us, you will be required to use the statistical software package STATA. It is important that you begin to familiarise yourself with STATA and the various commands that can be used to undertake statistical analysis. STATA can be downloaded here.

In order to help you become familiar with STATA, a Moodle page has been created with a huge amount of content that you will find useful. You can access this here. You will find a STATA manual, a forum, a large number of videos, as well as exercise sheets and solutions. In order to make the best use of these resources.

We would encourage you to do the following:

1. Spend time reviewing a set of videos, which will help you to become familiar with the software and its capabilities. Videos 1 – 32 will be particularly helpful and they can be found in the following link, which is also accessible via the Moodle page previously provided: https://moodle.warwick.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=640847
2. Work through the various STATA exercise sheets. Once you have watched some of the videos, you are encouraged to work through the exercise sheets and use your STATA software to answer the questions. You will see that solutions (as DO files) for each exercise sheet are available at the same link, which is again accessible from the main Moodle page for STATA.
3. The Moodle site also contains a Forum and you might find it helpful to look on the forum if you have any questions about STATA, as many questions and answers are already posted there. There is also a STATA manual on the Moodle page and you may find that a useful tool to support you in learning how to use STATA.

Support and Feedback classes are not recorded as they are meant to be a meeting in real time to allow for interaction between you and your class tutor. The other reason is that in order to record it, the class tutor would have to ask all students to give permission to have it recorded every time the seminar takes place. The Department's current policy is to have lectures video recorded and available to students via the Lecture Capture service, at the discretion of the lecturer

Printed handouts are not available in the majority of modules and students should not print out their own copies. All slides and module materials will be available on Moodle pages for students to download.

Students can submit a specific extension request through the Tabula Coursework Management portal. Requests must be supported by evidence, which should be submitted within 5 working days of making your request. Evidence that is in any other language than English must be accompanied by an official translation.

Extensions cannot be given for class tests or examinations, but mitigating circumstances can be submitted via Tabula with supporting documents (see more information below).

Self-Certification can be requested for some problem sets on optional modules, and more details can be found here

We may recalculate a module mark based on the components that were not affected by the mitigating circumstances if the assessment is worth no more than 3 credits. Details of the assessment for each of the Economics modules that you are taking can be found on the MSc modules page and the MRes modules page.

You can apply for mitigating circumstances in Tabula. Further guidance on mitigating circumstances is given in the MSc Handbook. 

You can also seek advice and support from Wellbeing Support Services and from our Senior Tutor, Mahnaz Nazneen.

Find out more about Wellbeing Services here.

Tests and exams for most MSc modules will take place online using the Warwick Assessment System (WAS). EC966 Labour Economics has an in-person Moodle based test in May.

MRes class tests will be conducted in-person.

The Department will organise an Exams Briefing for MSc students in December, which will explain how to take online exams and you will be able view the recording and slides for this event on the Exams Resources page. Students will also have access to mock exams to practice using the Warwick Assessment System (WAS).

We will offer a second exams briefing in Term 2 (March)

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We have written guidance to explain what you should do in the event of technical difficulties during a test, and the process is explained in the MSc Handbook in the Assessments section.

The Warwick Assessment System (WAS) will automatically submit your work at the end of the exam if you have not already submitted it. If you have no internet connection when the exam finishes, please leave the WAS browser open and it will submit automatically once your connection is reinstated (you will not be able to amend your work during this period).

If you encounter technical or mitigating circumstances during an exam, such that you are not able to finish your paper, then:

(a) inform us before the end of the exam by emailing our resource account (economics.pgoffice@warwick.ac.uk). The Postgraduate Office will extend your deadline by 15 minutes to allow you to complete your work.

(b) submit a mitigating circumstances application via Tabula, providing a detailed clear context of the problem you encountered and specifying exactly which part of the paper you have problems completing. This application MUST include relevant evidence on the nature of the problem and include a timestamp from within the window of the exam.

(c) the Department will only mark a late exam paper if an accompanying mitigating circumstances application has been made and is successful. Late exam papers will receive a mark of zero, and you will have to resit the module in September for a capped mark of 50, unless your claim for mitigating circumstances is accepted.

Please read our technical mitigating circumstancesLink opens in a new window guidance for further information.

All academic staff (including Support and Feedback class tutors) have Advice and Feedback hours during term time when they are able to see students. These hours can be views on our website.

We understand that you will have questions related to your studies and in relation to your personal circumstances and we are here to support you in your adjustment to the new environment. Within the Department you will be allocated a personal tutor and supporting these people will be the Advisor to International Students (Andreas Markoulakis), Advisor to Female Students (Eman Abdulla), and the Senior Tutor (Mahnaz Nazneen) all of whom are here to help support you. We also have a dedicated Postgraduate Office, and you can read more about how to get in touch with us here.

You should use the University’s webpage. For updates within the Department of Economics, you should check the Emails to Students page, where you will find a repository of important emails sent to students from the Department.The PG Office also sends an update on course-specific news each Friday. We also encourage students to check their emails on a daily basis as important information about marks releases, changes in rooms or teaching will be shared via email.

Please read information from the Student Immigration and Compliance team and particular guidance regarding Student Visa holders, which is available here.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you in September. If you are unable to arrive for in-person teaching starting on 16 September, and need to arrive on campus later (no later than Monday 7 October), you must let us know by completing the MSc Late Arrival Form*.

Late Arrival Form

* New students who have already activated their Warwick IT account will need to log in to the University website to access the form; new students who have yet to activate their Warwick IT account can use the password ‘Sargent1965’ to access the form.

You are not permitted to attend timetabled teaching sessions until you arrive here on campus. This is why we’d like you to arrive by 16 September if you can.

A certificate of status letter can be requested from Student Records to prove your current enrolment status at the University of Warwick and is often required in order to open bank accounts, for council tax exemption and for some immigration purposes, as well as numerous other reasons.

The University have some bookable spaces available to students. The spaces that are available and how to book them can be found here. Details on the Library study spaces can be found on this page. Details of department study areas can be found in your course handbook.