Academic Alert system
Academic Alerts are a way of helping students who are having trouble coping with their studies; such as missing deadlines for handing in work, or missing compulsory tutorials. The aim of the Alert system is to help students by flagging up problems before they seriously affect students’ grades. In 2012-2013, the Alert system has been extended to include Postgraduate Research students.
Academic Alerts will be issued by email from either the Director of Teaching, Module Co-ordinator, Director of Postgraduate Studies or School administrator and will tell students what is wrong and what they are required to do (e.g. attend classes in future). The Alerts will also tell students what support the University can offer. If students do not take the action required they will get another Alert, and eventually will automatically get a grade of zero and will fail that module.
The system is designed to help and support students in order to remedy any problems or issues before these lead to failing a module. Alerts will never appear on a student’s permanent transcript. More information on Academic Alerts and details on how the categories work.