Campaigns

My campaigns are focused on improving academic integrity and the overall academic experience of students; I’ll be working on these in three key areas.

First is the proposal to change the Fit to Sit policy. This policy states that any student who submits an assessment or sits an exam has declared themselves ‘fit to sit’ and cannot subsequently claim for any special circumstances to have affected their results. Students have complained that this affects their wellbeing and academic performance as this puts more pressure on them to take a tough decision at a period when they are already facing difficult circumstances. Holding students to a decision made at a time when they were under mental stress would be putting them at a disadvantage. My goal is to ensure that students can apply for extenuating circumstances within a reasonable time after submitting assessments.