10. Student attendance and engagement

10.1. As set out in the Student Agreement, students are expected to attend all educational activities (e.g. lectures, seminars, tutorials, laboratory classes) as defined in their programme and take an active part in their programme of study.

Where programmes have specific additional attendance requirements because of Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body and/or other statutory or contractual requirements, these will be set out in specific programme regulations and/or programme specifications.

10.2. Where there are particular requirements for a student to attend specific teaching event/s in order to demonstrate engagement with the learning in a unit for the award of credit or to pass the unit, these must be set out in the relevant unit specification.

10.3. Information on students notifying the relevant school of their absence from teaching and/or assessment is provided in section 20.

10.4. Faculties and Schools will have a procedure in place to confirm that all students are engaging satisfactorily with their programme of study, and to support the timely identification of students whose attendance and engagement record or patterns suggest that they may be at risk of failing to progress, at personal risk, or risk of breaching their visa compliance requirements.

10.5. Where a student has stopped engaging with their studies, this should trigger the non-engagement process and students will be contacted to ascertain the reasons for absence and possible support required.

10.6. Where student attendance and engagement is considered to be unsatisfactory (i.e. a student fails to attend regularly educational activities) as defined by their programme, the relevant school and faculty will follow-up and undertake relevant steps with the student to address this. Once the relevant processes are complete and attendance and engagement is still deemed to be unsatisfactory, a student may be required to withdraw from their programme, as set out below.

10.7. The failure of any student to show satisfactory progress on the programme, including failure in summative assessment, failure to obtain credit points or to attend regularly any prescribed part of a programme (including such lectures, discussion periods, tutorial and practical classes, fieldwork, design classes and vacation courses as may be required) or to undertake prescribed written or other work or to present themselves for any examination or to reach a satisfactory standard in any assessment or any part or parts of an assessment, will be reported to the  relevant exam board which may at any time, if it thinks fit, require the student concerned to repeat part of a programme or to retake an assessment or to withdraw from a unit or units or the whole programme in accordance with University regulation. Any student who has been required to withdraw shall be informed of the decision and of the University procedures for making representations against the decision. 

10.8. Students studying on a Student visa sponsored by the University of Bristol must not be absent from in person education activities during term-time for 60 days or more as this will mean the University has to inform the UKVI/Home Office and withdraw visa sponsorship. If a student does not have any in-person attendance requirements within any 60 day period of term-time during the duration of the Student Visa sponsorship, the University will review whether visa sponsorship can continue; unless the activity is permitted under Student visa sponsorship conditions, in most cases the University will need to inform the UKVI/Home Office and withdraw visa sponsorship. The student would usually be required to obtain a new Student visa before returning to in-person study. The University reserves the right to refuse future Student visa sponsorship where there is a history of non-attendance.