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YOUR DEGREE YOUR WAY HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT HANDBOOK 2020-21 YOUR YOUR DEGREE DEGREE YOUR YOUR WAY WAY CONTENTS About COVID-19 5 2.08 Diploma supplements 21 7.10 Faith and belief 35 Welcome to Bradford College 7 2.09 Withholding awards if 7.11 Student Health Service 36 Introduction 8 students have an academic debt 21 7.12 Counselling Service 36 1. Essential information when you 2.10 Progression from undergraduate 7.13 SEND and Additional Learning Support 36 to postgraduate study 21 start at the college 9 7.14 Safeguarding & Wellbeing 37 1.01 Starting at the college 9 3. Graduation 23 7.15 Safety online 37 1.02 Username, password and PIN 9 4. Student complaints 24 7.16 Student Finance 38 1.03 Communicating with you 9 7.17 Studying abroad – Erasmus+ Mobility 39 1.04 Email accounts 9 5. Student feedback 26 7.18 Library Services 40 1.05 Change of personal details 10 5.01 Student voice 26 7.19 IT Account 40 1.06 Data protection 10 5.02 Student experience surveys 26 1.07 HE Student Portal 11 5.03 Focus groups 26 7.20 Parking 42 1.08 E-learning 11 5.04 The National Student Survey (NSS) 27 7.21 Sport and well-being 42 1.08.01 When you need help with Moodle 12 7.22 Enrichment 42 1.09 Student ID card 12 7.23 Bradford College Plus Award Scheme 42 6. Students’ Union 30 1.10 The College Charter 13 7. 24 Personal support contact information 43 6.01 Representation 30 1.11 Promoting a mutually 6.02 Student Societies, Sports, respectful college community 13 Healthy Living and Volunteering 30 1.12 College regulations 13 8. Financial information 44 6.03 Student Discounts 30 1.13 Semester dates 2020-21 14 8.01 Tuition fees 44 6.04 Contacting Bradford College 8.02 Paying tuition fees 45 1.14 Campus information 14 Students’ Union 30 8.03 Transfers, suspensions and withdrawals: financial implications 47 2. Academic information 15 7. Services and facilities 31 8.04 Council tax and full-time students 48 2.01 Your academic programme 15 7.01 Governance and regulatory 8.05 Financial support 48 2.02 Attendance 16 frameworks 31 8.06 Financial help while you study 50 2.03 Assessment information 16 7.02 Student admissions 31 8.07 Additional programme costs 50 2.03.01 Assignment submission 16 7.03 Management Information 2.03.02 Extenuating circumstances 17 Systems and student records 31 2.03.03 Plagiarism and academic misconduct 18 7.04 The Quality Department 32 9. General information 51 2.03.04 Academic Appeal Regulations 19 7.05 Student Services 32 9.01 Security and emergencies 51 2.04 Receipt of results 19 7.06 Accommodation 33 9.02 Health and safety 52 2.05 External examiners 20 7.07 Alumni Association 34 9.03 First aid 52 2.06 Studying additional credits 21 7.08 Careers Service 34 9.04 Lost property 52 2.07 Transferring programmes 21 7.09 Catering services 35 9.05 Contact details 53 2 bradfordcollege.ac.uk bradfordcollege.ac.uk 3 YOUR DEGREE YOUR WAY Catch it Kill it Bin it If you feel unwell, or have any COVID-19 symptoms Remember to please stay at home. wash your hands Do not come into regularly and use the College until you are sanitiser provided. symptom/virus free and feel 100%. ABOUT COVID-19 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on schools Stay up-to-date via our website and and colleges, we are adapting the way we deliver teaching social media and learning this year, starting with induction. For up-to-date information on how the college is Following enrolment onto your course, you will complete responding to COVID-19, visit our website: your induction online. Your lessons will take place online www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/help/knowledge-base/ initially too. covid19/ Plans are underway to start re-opening our campuses for on-site learning as soon as it is safe to do so, and we For up-to-date information on student induction and will update students via SMS, email and website/social preparing to start your course, visit our website: media updates. You should not visit the College campus/ www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/help/information-for- buildings unless you are instructed to do so by your tutor. enrolled-students/ You should also follow the College on social media for the Follow the Keeping everyone safe latest news, important information and events. Simply Keep one-way systems There are a number of ways in which the college is being search for Bradford College across Facebook, Twitter, a safe around our buildings kept COVID safe including the following: Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. and classrooms to • COVID safe charter keep safe. distance. • Reduced occupancy • Four key messages– Health, Hygiene, Distance, Systems • Four day per week operation (Mon – Thu) to allow for weekly deep clean and a 72-hour break in “live” infection period. (Please note the Teacher Education office will be closed Mondays and open Tues-Fri) • Voluntary PPE and protected areas (screens) for front line staff • No catering provided until at least January 2020 (students and staff will need to bring their own or eat out) • No socialising in college or social activities that encourage groups of students to mix outside their groups/bubbles will be permitted • A minimum of 30% of teaching to take place online. 4 bradfordcollege.ac.uk bradfordcollege.ac.uk 5 YOUR YOUR DEGREE DEGREE YOUR YOUR WAY WAY WELCOME TO BRADFORD COLLEGE Welcome, both new and returning Our College is a vibrant and exciting institution which students! reflects the population of our city. Coming to College Our purpose at Bradford College is to support you to fulfil is a wonderful chance to meet a really diverse range of your potential and to achieve your objectives whether people and to learn about other cultures and exchange they are getting a job or progressing in education. We ideas. Each and every student and staff member makes have high expectations of our students and will agree an important contribution to this. Our UNITED Values with you stretching but achievable targets to enable you have been developed by staff and students to support this to be successful. ethos. You will find out more about these through your Induction and Tutorials. In addition to providing great teaching, the College provides a comprehensive range of support services Finally we would like to wish you the very best of luck with to help you if something happens, inside or outside of your studies and we hope that your time at the College is College, which is getting in the way of your studies. It is enjoyable and successful. important that you let a member of staff know if that We value your feedback so if you have concerns or happens, so we can get the right support in place to problems, or want to share your success, please do contact help you. us. You can email me via [email protected]. Whilst qualifications are really important, they do not give the full picture of your abilities. Employers place equal value on an individual’s wider skills and talents. There Craig Tupling are many self-development opportunities available to Vice Principal (Quality & Student Experience) students both here at College and across the city which both we and the Students’ Union will actively encourage you to become involved in. There are more details about these opportunities throughout this handbook. What we ask of you is that you attend fully, are punctual and of course that you work hard during your time at College. Without this it will be impossible for you to fulfil your potential. Finally, we expect you to show courtesy and respect to all other members of the College at all times. bradfordcollege.ac.uk 7 YOUR YOUR DEGREE DEGREE YOUR YOUR WAY WAY 1. Essential information 1.03 Communicating with you INTRODUCTION when you start at the college We usually communicate with you through your college email account or the HE Student Portal. For more formal communications 1.01 Starting at the college we may send you a letter. We also publish Before starting your programme you will relevant information and news on our website You should also read it alongside your Programme This Student Handbook directs you to receive instructions about registering with the and on Moodle. essential information about the college’s Handbook, which gives more specific information about college. You need to register to confirm that your programme. Your Programme Handbook will be you are attending the college and to provide In exceptional situations we may text or services and facilities and the regulations provided by your Programme Leader. evidence of your qualifications and identity, phone you when we need to get in touch urgently; for example, if there are late You should read all of these documents carefully and keep together with any other information such as under which your programme of study changes to timetabled classes or the closure them for future reference. skills tests and DBS information. will operate. of the campus because of bad weather. We More information about the college’s vision, mission Once you have registered, you will be may use phone or text when attempts to provided with proof of your registration and, It should be read alongside the Higher Education and strategy is available on the Bradford College website. contact you by other means have failed to if you’re a full-time student, you will be given Student Contract Terms and Conditions 2020-21 produce a response.