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Non-Submission Fine
This year (2010) the University has introduced fines of £150 for any student that does not submit assessment and who wishes to re-submit at a later date.
Before getting into why this has happened it is important to tell everyone that if you know you are not going to submit a piece of work, at least submit your name on a piece of paper so it doesn’t count as ‘non-submission’.
Why has this come in?
Now every student that doesn’t submit assessment is considered not to be a student by the funding bodies of Higher Education in England.
Cutting a long story short; for every student that does not submit work, their University loses around £6,000 each time. Which is then £6,000 taken out of developing the University experience.
If the current rate of students that do not submit work (around 250 per year) carries on, it will equal a huge detriment to the amount of funds available to improve the University experience for all students. This is why a strong disincentive has been brought in taking the form of a £150 fine.
Further Explanation
Funding
Universities receive a total of £9,000 per student from two sources
1) Tuition Fees
2) Government Funding
This is said to be the amount of money that providing higher education to one student costs per year, however there are strong arguments that this is not enough.
The distribution of all government funding to University’s goes through HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England).
They are the ones that, due to being cheated in their own system, have introduced this new rule that should a student not submit assessment they will prevent funding (approx £6,000) for that student.
Your Union has been in touch with NUS and their Vice President Education Aaron Porter asking them to lobby HEFCE on a national scale as they are ultimately the cause of this fine. We will communicate advances with this when they arise.
Mitigating Circumstances and other Procedures
Nothing will change to the existing procedures. If you have mitigating circumstances i.e. you are ill / unforeseeable circumstances the University will consider these and providing they can be proved they will not fine you (HEFCE will consider mitigating circumstances and the University will still lose funding).
This page has tried to simplify a quite complicated story to make it as accessible as possible; if there are further areas you would like information on please feel free to contact us and we can expand.
