Semester 2 Exam Sitting 1

Academic Information

Academic information

Academic Operations

The IIE’s Varsity College has an Academic Operations team on every campus. This team is responsible for ensuring compliance with academic operations and administrative policies and procedures by the respective Schools. The Academic Operations team is responsible for your student experience; ensuring that all administration related to your qualification is handled efficiently and effectively. Customer service is important to us, as such we have a dedicated customer relations team on campus that will assist you with any queries you may have regarding your journey with us.

The customer relations platform is available via VC Assist. By logging your query on VC Assist, you will gain direct access to a Customer Relations Officer on your campus who will respond to your query. In addition to VC Assist and the Customer Relations Officer on campus, please feel free to contact your Head: Academic Operations on campus at any stage. You may access VC Assist here: https://www.varsitycollege.co.za/assist/ The below categories are relevant to the operational management of your programme and you can contact your Academic Operations team regarding this.

Your Rights

• You have the right to be treated fairly and with dignity regardless of gender, race, sexual preference, political affiliation, nationality, marital status, disability or religious belief. • You have the right to access the rules, regulations, policies and procedures of The IIE. • You have the right to access all facilities and resources available on an IIE site of delivery, in accordance with its various function and conditions for use.

Attendance

Your lecturer will note your attendance at each session. It is therefore important that you attend each scheduled session, as per your timetable.

Missed Lectures

If you miss any lectures you need to ensure that you find out, from your lecturer, what was covered during the lecture you missed. It is your responsibility to ensure you catch up on any work you have missed. Some modules within your programme may have a prerequisite or corequisite requirement to complete either before (prerequisite) you can proceed with another module or in conjunction (corequisite) with another module. It is important to take note of your programme’s prerequisite modules as you may not be able to proceed with a module in the following semester or year if you are not successful in the prerequisite for that module which will affect your registration and progression for your qualification.

THE DEFINITION OF A PREREQUISITE:

You may not enrol for a module without having successfully completed the related prerequisites. Prerequisites can also be between semesters or between years. Please ensure that you are registered for the correct modules and in the correct semester and/ or year. Your Student Advisor or a staff member from the Customer Relations Centre will assist you with this. Should you need to amend your registration to add or deregister from any modules, you need to complete an Amendment to Contract form with a staff member from the Customer Relations Centre.

Timetables

Your timetables are uploaded onto the MyVC Student Intranet at the start of the semester. Your timetable will list all the modules that you are registered for during the semester. • The timetable confirms the schedule of lectures you are to receive for each of the modules you are registered for, including the venue and lecturer. In addition your timetable will include venue and lecturer information. • Our face-to-face programmes are aimed at students wishing to dedicate themselves to full-time face-to-face studies for the duration of their qualification. This means that students are expected to be available for classes during the morning and/or afternoon throughout the academic year depending on how the timetable is structured. • Unfortunately, you are not able to select a morning or afternoon format to suit your personal circumstances. • We encourage you to take up part-time employment outside of class time, weekends

and in the evenings, but you must prioritise your studies and we urge you not to commit to work schedules until after you have received your timetable and academic calendar. • While we strive to offer time efficient timetables (where classes are grouped together in the morning or the afternoon), we cannot guarantee that either format will necessarily be available for all programmes every semester. • You are required to attend classes unless you are studying a qualification offered by the Online Centre in which case face-to-face lectures is not a requirement. • You may also be required to write assessments or submit coursework or assignments outside of normal class time. • If you are repeating a module/s from a previous year of study, please liaise with the

Customer Relations Centre to ensure that you have all the required timetables for modules across different years of study. Timetables are subject to change and it is therefore important that you refer to the most recent version which will be available on the MyVC Student Intranet. Should you experience a clash between two modules on your timetable, please discuss this with the Customer Relations Centre immediately.

Programme Assessment Schedules (PAS)

Your Programme Assessment Schedule (PAS) can be accessed via the MyVC Student Intranet at the start of the semester. This schedule will list all the formative and summative assessment dates for each module so that you can plan for and work towards your academic success. • This schedule will confirm all assessment dates for tests and exams as well as assignments, tasks, Portfolio of Evidence and take home assessment submission deadlines.

• Contact Full-Time tests and exams are scheduled at 8am, 11am and 2pm. Contact

Part-Time tests are scheduled on a weekday at 8am, 11am and 2pm. Take home tests and exams are required to be submitted by 9pm on the submission due date.