Sorry to sound negative but I do not think that would work because if their
results are not confirmed by an exam board the student who recovers their
debt situation would not be able to graduate until the next session. I
think we would end up with even more problems.
Mind you I do not have an alternative!
Wendy Dunkley
UCN
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of BARNES R.V.
> Sent: 31 January 2000 15:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Withholding results from student debtors
>
>
> Following the article in the Higher on 14 January about the effect of new
> legislation on the ability of universities to withold examination results
> from students who are in debt, we have been considering this
> question and I
> should be grateful if members of the list would let me have any views or
> comments they may have on the following suggestion. Under the Data
> Protection Act 1998 it will no longer, apparently, be permissible for
> universities to withhold examination results from students who are in debt
> as a lever to get them to pay. My suggestion, as a way of retaining this
> sanction, would be to allow students to sit the examinations in the normal
> way and to allow departments to mark the papers and enter the
> marks into the
> computer database. However, in the case of debtors, their results
> would not
> be considered by our Progression Boards or by our Award Boards. This would
> mean that in the case of debtors no decision would be taken about
> progression to the next level of study, nor any classification
> made for the
> award of a degree to final year students. If debtors subsequently
> pay their
> cases could then be referred to a Progression Board or an Award Board at a
> later date. At Swansea this would mean that final year students dealt with
> in this way would not qualify in time to attend the degree ceremony with
> their cohort.
>
> Is this a feasible way around our present dilemma and would it be legally
> acceptable?
>
>
>
> Robert V Barnes,
>
> Director of Registry and Academic Registrar.
>
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