Section 1: Your rights and responsibilities
Useful links and further information
The University must impose some rules in order to allow you, and your fellow students, to exercise your different and varied rights. The University’s rules and regulations create a framework within which all students may exercise their individual rights effectively. It is your responsibility to understand the framework of rules, policies and regulations that the University has put in place to help support the essential freedoms of individual students.
The LJMU Student Charter
The LJMU Student Charter sets out a series of expectations, standards and responsibilities that we each need to meet in order for you to achieve your academic and personal ambitions while you are a student at LJMU. It is not an exhaustive list and that’s why you are advised to take the time to read through the Student Handbook and the relevant University’s rules and regulations (www.ljmu.ac.uk/corporate/spr/).
Your Student Handbook essential checklist
The Student Handbook contains a lot of information. So to make it easier for you to find the bits that you should read now, here is a list of your key rights and responsibilities with links to the relevant sections.
Your important individual rights are attached to:
1) Programme Information
2) Student data and data protection
3) Freedom of Speech
4) Equal opportunities
5) Intellectual property
6) Individual support for students
7) Dealing with difficult personal circumstances
8) Complaints
9) Academic Appeals
10) Withdrawal
Your specific responsibilities are attached to:
1) Health
2) Attendance
3) Student behaviour
4) Discipline
5) Proper use of University resources (IT facilities, libraries etc)
6) Misrepresentation
7) Payment of fees
8) Communications
9) University rules (statements that affect everybody)
a) University ID card
b) Attendance
c) Health and safety
d) Alcohol, smoking, and the illegal use of drugs
e) Copyright [add url]
10) University policies (general guidelines on issues that may affect some students at some time)
a) Mental health
b) Criminal convictions and Criminal Records Bureau checks
c) Fitness to study and fitness to practice
d) Dealing with illness
e) Fee payment
f) Withdrawal
LJMU reserves the right to cancel, suspend or modify in any way the matters contained in the Student Handbook. The University undertakes to take all reasonable steps to provide the teaching, examination, assessment and other educational services set out in its prospectus and course information leaflets, etc. It does not, however, guarantee the provision of such services. Should industrial action or other circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the University interfere with its ability to provide educational services, the University undertakes to use all reasonable steps to minimise the resultant disruption to those services.
