Admissions Tutor
Each School has an Admissions Tutor who is responsible for ensuring that all applications receive fair and careful consideration.
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Cheating
Any attempt you may make to gain an unfair advantage in your study through deliberate and inappropriate means - including collusion, where students work together to produce work that should be done independently. (Also see Plagiarism)
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Code of Practice
A series of documents which outline the University's obligations to you in various areas of learning and teaching.
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Committee on Applications
The Committee on Applications meets to consider students' requests to transfer programmes of study, consider and resolve appeals against examiners decisions, and consider and resolve cases of plagiarism, cheating or fraudulent or fabricated coursework.
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Committee on Student Discipline
The Committee considers cases of student discipline and decides upon the imposition of penalties where appropriate.
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Compulsory Module
These are modules which you must study as part of your programme. Some of these modules may also have to be passed in order to proceed to the next level of your programme or gain your award. (See Programme Catalogue for more information).
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Council (The)
The Council is the governing body of the University. It has a collective responsibility to promote the University's well-being and, in particular, for the proper management and financial solvency of the institution. Major policy decisions, as well as corporate strategy, are also subject to its approval. The Council has a majority of lay members (neither employees nor students of the University), and includes among its members representatives of staff and students.
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Diploma Supplement
The Diploma Supplement provides a description of the nature, level, context, content and status of studies that you have pursued and
successfully
completed. The University issues a Diploma Supplement, combined with an official transcript, in support of an official certificate
confirming the
award of a degree or other academic qualification.
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Elective Module
Some programmes of study allow you to undertake elective modules as well as compulsory and optional modules. Elective modules are entirely free choice and are included so that you can widen your interests beyond your specific area of study.
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Faculty Taught Student Education Committee
Each faculty has a committee made up of staff and students that is responsible for all matters relating to the delivery of taught programmes of study.
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Faculty Special Cases Committee
The Faculty Special Cases Commitee decides cases that Schools make for individual students. The cases are either requests to set aside regulations (such as allowing a student to progress who has not taken a compulsory to pass module) or to refer a student who has failed the examinations very badly. Students cannot make cases to these Committees but if you are referred you will be given the opportunity to comment in writing on the School's case.
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Formative assessment
This is where a mark is given for a piece of work together with comments on specific areas so that you can reflect on what do you well and what could be improved. Marks given for formative assessment are not included in the overall module/programme mark.
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Intercalation
It is possible to 'take a year out' of your programme of study to pursue an additional, academically-related qualification or to spend the year on a work placement.
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Leeds University Union (LUU)
Leeds University Students' Union is a democratic, non-political union which exists to represent your interests. Each year the student body elects a number of union officers whose areas of responsibility are: Communications and Internal Affairs; Community; Education; Equality and Diversity; Welfare; Activities. When you register with the University you automatically become a member of the Union.
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Mitigating circumstances
Mitigating circumstances are significantly disruptive and/or unexpected events which are beyond your control (ie. illness, bereavement) but which might affect your academic performance when submitting assessed work or sitting examinations.
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Module
A module is a self-contained unit of study which counts towards a qualification. A number of modules will make up your programme of study. Undergraduate programmes consist of 120 credits per year and postgraduate programmes consist of 180 credits per year.
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Module Leader
A Module Leader is a member of academic staff with responsibility for a module.
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Office of Academic Appeals and Regulation
The Office is responsible for the University Committee on Applications who investigate and resolve academic appeals and student disciplinary cases. The Office can offer you procedural advice if you have a case under consideration, as well as providing interpretation and advice on regulations for taught programmes of study.
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Optional Module
Optional modules come from within a prescribed range, specific to your particular programme of study, but where there is an element of choice of which modules you can study.
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Parent School
This is the School you will be attached to for the duration of your studies depending on where the majority of your modules are based.
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Personal Tutor
A Personal Tutor is the member of academic staff that is assigned to you by your School. Meetings with your Personal Tutor are to help you discuss your academic progress and any individual or personal difficulties you may want to draw to their attention on a confidential basis (this might also be referred to as pastoral care).
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. Work means any intellectual output, and typically includes text, data, images, sound or performance. (Also see Cheating).
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Portal
The Portal is a web interface through which you can access all University web content and on-line services. |
Pre-requisite Module
These are modules which must be taken and passed before you can take a particular module at the next level. They contain essential skills and knowledge which you must have to be able to study at a higher level.
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Programme Specification
A programme specification sets out what knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes you will have developed on successfully completing your programme of study. It will also provide details of methods of teaching, learning and assessment.
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Programme of Study
The programme followed by you which leads to an award of the University. Each programme of study will have specified learning outcomes all of which you will have achieved on successfully completing the programme. You can see the learning outcomes and programme specifications for all programmes of study via the online Programme Catalogue.
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor
There are four Pro-Vice-Chancellors who are members of the University's senior management team. The current areas of responsibility are Student Education; Research and Innovation; Staff; and International Partnerships. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Education has responsibility for the academic and co-curricular experience of all taught students.
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Rules for Award
These rules explain how the University will determine whether you have met the progression and eligibility requirements for your programme. They cover issues such as marking, progress from one programme year to another, eligibility for award and classification of degrees.
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School Student Representatives
There are around 60 School Student Representatives at the University, working in teams within each Faculty. They represent the views,
concerns and positive comments of students in each School at the Faculty Taught Student Education Committee (FTSEC), which helps
develop policy about learning and teaching which affects all students. School Student Representatives also attend LUU's Better University
Forum, a regular LUU meeting where students propose ideas about how the Union can help develop student education.
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Semester
The academic year is split into two parts, each known as a semester.
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Senate
The Senate is the principal academic authority of the University. It is subject to the powers of the Council and has some 160 members, 75 of whom are elected, and has 19 student members. It concentrates on major issues of principle and strategy and, in particular, academic priorities. It oversees the academic management of the University, including the curriculum and maintenance of standards.
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Session
Session is another term for the academic year.
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Skills Elective
Skills electives are modules designed to develop specific skills. They can be taken in any year and level 1 skills electives are the only
level 1 modules available to be taken beyond the second programme year. A maximum of 20 credits, subject to the provision of the
programme of study concerned, may be taken in the final programme year.
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Student:Staff Forum
Each School/Institute has at least one Forum which meets to consider issues raised by students about its programmes of study and modules and to consult students about local developments relating to learning and teaching as well as more general matters. All students have the opportunity to be elected as a member.
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Summative Assessment
Unlike formative assessment, which gives an indication of your progress so far, all summative assessment/examination is evaluated and graded and will form part of your final module/programme mark.
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Supernumerary Module
Supernumerary modules are modules taken as extra credits on top of the normal amount of credits for the year (usually 120 for undergraduate programmes and 180 for postgraduate). Students on three, four or five year undergraduate programmes are permitted to study a maximum of 30, 40 or 50 supernumerary credits respectively over the course of the programme and, depending on your Parent School, they may or may not count towards classification.
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Transcript
A formal record of study undertaken by an individual student, including grades/marks and achievement (pass/fail) for each module for which you have registered and details of any award (degree/diploma or certificate) achieved.
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UNIPOL
Unipol is a non-profit-making charitable company which lets accommodation directly to students.
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University Court
The University Court stands beyond and above the University's main decision-making machinery, but plays an important and influential role on behalf of the institution's stakeholders in seeing that the University is well managed, properly governed and responsive to public and local interests and concerns. In particular, the Court serves as a mechanism for - and a symbol of - the University's accountability to the wider community and to diverse stakeholders. The Court has 88 members, the majority of whom are external or 'lay' members.
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University Secretary
The University Secretary is a senior member of the University with ultimate responsibility for academic appeals and regulation, student complaints and discipline.
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Vice-Chancellor
The Vice-Chancellor is the most senior academic and administrative officer of the University.
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Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard)
A Virtual Learning Environment is an on-line 'classroom' of learning and teaching materials and resources. |
