Attendance Expectations

We cannot emphasise too strongly the importance of attending your timetabled classes on a regular basis. This will ensure that you engage fully with the learning experience and maintain contact with your tutors and fellow students. It will also ensure that you receive essential information about your module and programme, including details of assignments and other assessed work. Failure to attend timetabled classes will severely reduce your chances of success, limit your ability to achieve a degree result that fairly reflects your ability, and can quickly lead to outright failure of a module or even your entire degree programme.

For all undergraduate students, attendance at all timetabled learning activities associated with programmes and modules is compulsory.

1. All Departments in the Faculty operate an attendance monitoring system. It is your responsibility to ensure that your attendance is recorded at each timetabled session. 2. If you are unable to attend timetabled learning activities, it is your responsibility to contact your tutor and explain the circumstances. 3. If you are absent due to illness, you should notify your tutor or your department office. If your absence exceeds 5 consecutive days, you must provide a medical certificate. 4. You must obtain prior permission from the Pathway Leader for planned absences of two or more days during term time. 5. If you are having difficulties attending classes because of personal, financial or academic problems, you should contact your Personal Tutor who will refer you to other sources of advice and support within the Faculty and University.

Any instances of persistent and unauthorised non-attendance and/or of non-submission of coursework will be followed up and may result in de-registration from the University.

On the first day of any absence it is the student’s responsibility to notify the relevant administrator and their Personal Tutor if they are due to visit, before 9.30am on the first day of absence. The following information will be required:

1. Name; 2. Year/Course; 3. Name of the Work-based Facilitator; 4. Reason for absence (e.g. illness, school closure); 5. Name of the setting; 6. Proposed return date to the setting or Edge Hill University. The Faculty of Education is required to record all absences. 7. You must notify the relevant administrator of your return date, if unknown at the time of notification or if different to the above.

It is essential that you behave in a professional manner at all times; all students must follow the procedures in this policy.