About the course
Reasons to study
- Our flexible course structures mean that you can wait until the end of Year 2 to decide whether you want to study on an academic course, i.e., LLB (Hons) Law or one of our practice-focused courses, i.e., Law and Practice or Master’s in Law and Practice.
- Employability skills are embedded within our curriculum, and a range of extra-curricular activities are on offer. Benefit from hands-on experience at our Huddersfield-based Legal Advice Centre, providing free assistance to members of the public who would otherwise have no access to legal help. You’ll also access our purpose-built mock courtroom and participate in national and international Moot competitions, professional mentoring scheme, the Law School challenge and law Careers Fair.
- In addition to specialised legal databases (i.e., Westlaw, Lexis Library) and journals (via Heinonline, Jstor), you’ll have access to over 200 law eBooks (textbooks) via Law Trove, included in your course fees.
Our integrated Master’s in Law and Practice (MLaw) is a unique programme that incorporates a full LLB(Hons) Law degree, while also allowing you to obtain a Law Master’s degree. This rigorous but highly rewarding degree prepares you for an exciting career in law and advocacy, with special emphasis on supporting you to develop competencies for the Solicitors Qualifying Exams (SQE1 and SQE2).
This course aims to develop your skills in interviewing, advocacy, drafting legal documents, legal ethics/conducts/procedures, supporting you to develop a career as a solicitor in England and Wales. You’ll also gain a host of transferrable skills, such as how to construct an argument, how to communicate with clients, the importance of attention to detail and critical thinking, being creative, and the ability to work on your own and as a team. You can volunteer in the Legal Advice Centre and the Moot Scheme, where you’ll witness law in action and develop competences to be a solicitor. Our Mentoring Scheme and the Law Careers Fair will allow you to network with our Partner Law firms, introducing you to opportunities for work experience/employment with them.
Our flexible course structures mean that you can wait until the end of Year 2 to decide whether you want to study on an academic course, i.e., LLB (Hons) Law or one of our practice-focused courses, i.e., Law and Practice or Master’s in Law and Practice.
Why study MLaw (incorporating LLB(Hons)) Law and Practice
You’ll be taught my both practitioners and legal academics who bring their industry and research expertise into classroom teaching.
In addition to specialised legal databases (i.e., Westlaw, Lexis Library) and journals (via Heinonline, Jstor), you’ll have access to over 200 law eBooks (textbooks) via Law Trove, included in your course fees.
Together with the Functioning Legal Knowledge modules (Criminal Law, Contract Law, Land Law Tort, EU, Public Law), you’ll study a range of practice-focused modules, including:
- Dispute Resolution
- Criminal Litigation
- Business Law and Practice
- Property Law and Practice
- Equity and English Legal System
Throughout the course, you’ll also take a variety of optional academic and practice-focused modules to help you find your law area of interest, including but not limited to:
- Commercial Law and Practice
- Immigration and Asylum Law
- Family Law and Practice
- Employment Law and Practice
- Medical Law
In addition to developing your legal knowledge and skills during the modules, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in a range of extra-curricular activities, allowing you to put your legal knowledge and skills to the test.
You’ll have access to our purpose-built mock courtroom, where you’ll learn legal etiquette, prepare a mock case, and compete with other law schools in mock trials. You can also volunteer in our Legal Advice Clinic, providing legal support to real clients under supervision.
Although this course will support you to develop competences which are required to be a solicitor, the wide range of transferrable skills you’ll develop will introduce you to careers opportunities in other legal, law-related and non-legal sectors. For example, paralegal, legal assistant, or legal consultant, corporate lawyer, legal academic, public service, and many more.
Course detail
Core modules:
21st Century Legal and Employability Skills
This module aims to develop your professionalism and ability to work effectively in groups and individually to develop the following skills; legal research and referencing skills, advocacy, interviewing, presentation, effective and persuasive writing and legal drafting. It also aims to develop your understanding of your personal development of transferrable and employability skills required for successful post study employment. Overall, the module will focus on equipping you with the necessary legal and employability skills, and professionalism, which today’s graduates require to effectively develop a career following graduation.
Contract Law
This module explores all the foundational and fundamental aspects of the creation of a legal agreement that is, contract. It explores how a contract comes to light, how it can evolve based on the inclusion of certain terms and how the courts keep upholding underlying principles which underpin contract while balancing ideas of justice and public interest and policy. You will learn some of the key doctrines in Contract law, key debates and discussions on the underlying idea of contract law, the evolution of its principles and doctrines, the role of contract and the limits to what it can achieve.
Criminal Law
This module will enable you to acquire a thorough understanding of the principles of criminal liability, and how these principles are applied to specific offences. A range of offences will be considered, including homicide, offences against the person (such as assault and battery) and property offences (theft, burglary, robbery and fraud). You'll also acquire knowledge of the basis of a defendant’s liability and the skills to apply your knowledge in problem situations.
English Legal System and Method
The English legal system is complex, rooted in history and constantly evolving. This module introduces you to the key elements of the English legal system and also looks at the procedure to enact legislation, an analysis of the anatomy of an Act of Parliament, delegated and secondary legislation and principles of statutory interpretation. A brief history of the evolution of common law is also considered, together with an analysis of the current English court system and the continuing importance of the doctrine of precedent. In this module you'll also learn the methods and techniques necessary for using legal resources, such as cases and legislation to construct legal arguments.
Law in Society
This module explores the original theories of law, as well as legal theories which disprove the myth of law as inherently neutral. By exploring areas such critical race theory, feminism and/or postmodernism, this module is inspired by Woodie Guthrie: this module kills fascists. The module explores depictions of law and legal injustices in popular culture and looks at the nature of human rights, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the place of the individual in society.
Public Law
Are the powers of the government unlimited? Can the UK Parliament really ban smoking on the streets of Paris? Is the rule of law a fiction? This module provides you with an introduction to key concepts, theories and research of the legal rules which govern how the state works. Emphasis is placed on the law relating to the United Kingdom constitution, the legal framework in which the Government and Parliament operate, and the relationship of Her Majesty’s subjects to Governmental and regulatory actions and decisions. As there is no single document which you can look up and read which says ‘The UK Constitution’ on the front, this module asks you to consider the question of whether the UK has a legal or political constitution and what that means for society.
Core modules:
EU Law
With Brexit dominating the news in the past few years, the knowledge of EU law has never been more relevant. This module explores the European Union working principles governing the internal market and the freedom of movement alongside legislative sources and the developments and institutions.
Equity and Trusts
In this module you'll learn about equity and trusts and consider the creation and constitution of a variety of trusts, and how legal certainty and flexibility can be negotiated in the application of trust law to modern life. You'll have the opportunity to learn about the life of the trust: how it operates, by whom, and what happens when it goes wrong and how to gather evidence, assess the strength of the client’s case and deciding whether to seek equitable remedies such as specific performance or consider alternative dispute resolutions will also be examined.
Land Law
This module provides you with knowledge of the structure of land law as it relates to England and Wales. It explores the different types of estates in land, the interests that can arise over land owned by another, the formalities for the creation and protection of estates and interests, rules relating to the transfer of land and the rights and liabilities of owners of the estates and interests.
Law of Torts
You'll learn about the common law of England and Wales concerning liability in tort. Particular emphasis is placed on the theoretical justifications of a duty of care, the coherence of breach of duty, as well as causation and defences. You'll also learn through an in-depth analysis, of specific torts as black letter law.
Option modules:
Choose two from a list of modules which may include:
Childcare Law
In this module you'll have the opportunity to learn about private and public family law, including with whom a child shall live and spend time with and who can make decisions concerning a child. You'll also explore the role of the State and when they may intervene in family life including public law court proceedings concerning vulnerable children and the range of orders that a court can make. This module will consider pre-court proceedings including the provision of services by a local authority to families and Child Protection Conferences as well as voluntary accommodation of a child.
Commercial Law
In this module, you'll have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the specialist legal principles of commercial law, within relevant aspects of their social, institutional and cultural contexts. A wide range of commercial transactions are regularly conducted by businesses who use agents and this practice has given rise to disputes about the rights and obligations of the businesses, agents and customers. You'll also learn about the body of legal principles that has emerged to provide solutions to these types of disputes and the growing reliance on alternative methods such as mediation, arbitration and the use of the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Company Law
In this module you'll explore the legal framework necessary for a limited company in the UK (England and Wales), including an understanding of the importance of limited liability and separate legal personality to facilitating business enterprise. You'll also have the opportunity to examine the internal workings of companies, i.e. the rights of the shareholders, the rights and obligations of the company's directors and the regulation of the company's capital and the challenges of addressing different interests within companies and the conflicting interests of shareholders and other stakeholders within and outside the company.
Employment Law
Employment law regulates the legal relationship between employer and employee, as well as the various other forms of work. In this module you'll have the opportunity to examine the formation of contracts of employment, its implied terms, and termination of the relationship between employer and worker at common law and under statute. Issues of anti-discrimination law in the field of employment will also be discussed.
Equality Law
In this module you'll explore how law deals with inequalities, not only the legal framework of non-discrimination both nationally and internationally, including its strengths and weaknesses but also how gender, race, disability interact with law. You'll do this by drawing on critical theories such as intersectionality, identity politics, discrimination as stigma and/or post-colonial theories to critically analyse legal responses to inequalities. This is an importance subject in the era of #metoo, the Black Lives Matter movements and other contemporary debates. This module will also explore the impact of globalisation on inequalities, considering the relationship between law and various systems of oppression such as gender, race and disability.
Family Law
In this module you'll explore the relationships between members of a family and how the law is applicable to the breakdown of marriage/civil partnership or the relationship of a cohabitating couple. You'll evaluate the legal provisions relating to divorce and dissolution proceedings in respect of married couples and the legal principles that apply when dividing financial assets. The terms relating to married couples and their finance will be contrasted against the lack of formality surrounding cohabiting couples and their finances on relationship breakdown. The module also consider remedies available to couples in respect of domestic abuse.
Insolvency Law
In this module you'll explore the areas of domestic corporate insolvency law and selected aspects of cross-border insolvency law. Insolvency law deals with the fate of companies in distress either towards liquidation or restructuring. In the globalised economy, cross-border insolvency law is becoming pivotal to manage insolvency cases with multistate dimension. The content of the module will prove helpful to you if you wish to practice or specialise in insolvency or a commercial context.
Intellectual Property:Copyright and Related Rights
The current use of easily accessible copyright-protected works is putting pressure on a law that effectively originates from a 19th Century construction of law with a 20th Century application in a society for whom accessing the internet was inconceivable. In this module you'll explore the nature of how copyright works, together with related rights including those assigned to databases and computer programs. This module will also provide a link between legal study and application of the law in a real-world 21st Century context, focusing on memes to explore the interrelationship between copyright and other forms of law beyond Intellectual Property (IP) rights.
Taxation Law
This module will give you an understanding of the principles and practice of taxation law, specifically concerning the capital and income taxation of individuals, partnerships and limited companies. There is a particular emphasis upon income tax as it affects the employed and self-employed respectively, and the importance of distinguishing income receipts from capital receipts. VAT and inheritance tax are also covered. You will learn how to apply the law to realistic situations, including carrying out basic computations and learn the key role of HMRC in enforcing tax law, as well as the tax appeals system.
Core modules:
Administration of Estates
This module provides insight into the ways in which a person’s land and possessions may be distributed after their death, the importance of a will, the formalities required for will making and, by searching the unpinning statutory rules, you'll investigate what happens where a will does not provide a complete template for distribution. You'll also explore the roles and responsibilities of those who administer a person’s estate and learn about the tax position on death and the practical steps that must be taken to manage and distribute a person’s death estate. This module facilitates a practical approach to learning and offers opportunities to explore case studies and learn how to use real-life documents.
Criminal Litigation
This module has a highly practical focus and would be of interest to you if you are considering careers connected with the criminal litigation system (e.g. magistrates’ court clerks, police officers and other police staff, prosecutors and prosecution caseworkers, probation officers and police station advisers in addition to those who are seeking a career as a solicitor or barrister). You'll consider and examine criminal litigation practice and procedure from a suspect’s arrival at the police station to the commencement of proceedings, the progress of a case through the court system by way of pre-trial steps, applications and evidential issues to trial in the magistrates’ court or Crown Court and ultimately to sentencing.
Dispute Resolution
In this module you'll learn about the practice and procedure of dispute resolution in a range of civil legal problems including analysing the meris of a claim and its defence. You'll learn how to understand the differences between settling a dispute, the use of mediation and arbitration as well as the steps for commencing, responding to or progressing a claim and preparation of a case for trial, the trial itself and any post-trial steps.
Professional Conduct
This module is designed to provide you with a working knowledge of the importance of acting with integrity and honesty when practising as a lawyer as required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). A solicitor’s day to day professional conduct is set by a complex combination of bespoke conduct rules as well as general legislation which protects the data and finances of the public. You will learn about the importance of applying ethics and responsibility to inform your professional practice in law, and that breach of the SRA rules can result in serious professional and personal sanction for any practising lawyer.
Option modules:
Choose two from a list of modules which may include:
Environmental Law
The world faces a variety of contemporary environmental challenges. This module explores the extent to which Environmental Law provides an adequate and appropriate response to these challenges. It investigates the key debates on environmental law in its social and political context, examining the main principles, jurisdictions, actors, regulation, compliance and enforcement involved in environmental governance in England and Wales. This module introduces you to substantive legal regimes which apply concerning topics such as climate change, energy, waste, nature conservation and genetically modified organisms.
Human Rights Law
This module critically explores the Human Rights Act 1998 and its implications for society today. It focuses on post-colonial critiques of human rights and the role of human rights as a tool of liberation. The Human Rights Act 1998 has defied its critics and has matured into an essential aspect of the UK’s legal landscape. You'll learn by being involved in practical debates about Human Rights and the 1998 Act, such as the application of human rights to British armed forces overseas, and debates as to the future and whether it is important to have a Human Rights Act, what its future legal status should be, or whether it should be repealed.
Immigration and Asylum Law
In this module you'll explore the framework of immigration control and the right of abode and consider the law relating to deportation and removal from the UK. You'll also study the law relating to claims for asylum, including separate elements of the definition of a refugee under international law. This module explores the approach to asylum claims including matters relating to credibility, sufficiency of protection and internal relocation and taking a human-rights oriented approach, looks at the context in which the law arises.
International Law
International law, also known as the law of nations, is the body of principles which tell us about how international relations between different countries in the world are managed. It covers such things as diplomacy, war, international human rights, international economic and trade relations and resolving disputes between states with a view to maintaining international peace and security. This module deals with some of the most controversial issues taking place in the world today and by identifying, examining and reflecting on the sources, subjects and key principles of public international law, you'll understand how law works and influences individuals, people groups and states, at a global level.
Legal Advice Clinic
This module is a clinical and a practical module with a client focused application of theory to practice. You'll have the opportunity to learn about the management of clients who present with a range of legal problems and the empowerment of those clients through the provision of legal advice. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your professional skills including interviewing, researching, problem solving, reflective practice, drafting and advising. This module acts as an integrative medium to support clinical learning and show the application of theory to practice.
Law of Evidence
In this module you'll explore the rules of evidence as they govern both civil and criminal litigation in England and Wales. In taking this module, you'll develop a range of practical skills in applying the rules of evidence in different scenarios and have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the specialist legal principles within relevant aspects of their social, institutional and cultural contexts.
Mental Health Law
This module positions current mental health law in its social environment, starting with a historical analysis of madness and the early legislative attempts to address lunacy in the UK, you'll also focus on our current understanding of mental health and develop a detailed understanding of the fundamental legal principles of mental health law, within aspects of their social, institutional and cultural contexts. Particular emphasis is placed on the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act, the related Codes of Practice and the case law of Mental Health Tribunals and the Court of Protection. The frequency and seriousness of mental health issues highlight mental health law as one of the most important areas of UK public health and policy today.
Intellectual Property:Copyright and Related Rights
The current use of easily accessible copyright-protected works is putting pressure on a law that effectively originates from a 19th Century construction of law with a 20th Century application in a society for whom accessing the internet was inconceivable. In this module you'll explore the nature of how copyright works, together with related rights including those assigned to databases and computer programs. This module will also provide a link between legal study and application of the law in a real-world 21st Century context, focusing on memes to explore the interrelationship between copyright and other forms of law beyond Intellectual Property (IP) rights.
Core modules:
Business Law and Practice
In this module you'll explore the legal challenges and opportunities presented to those who set up, run and invest in businesses. You'll be placed in the position of an adviser and learn about the legal rules that apply to businesses, both large and small, the legal rules on how to start a new business, how to run it, raise finance, how to buy or sell an existing business, and the risks and consequences of insolvency, giving you the opportunity to develop your ability to give practical, ethical, timely and cost-effective advice.
Property Law and Practice
This module is designed to provide you with practical insight into English residential property transactions (the process of conveyancing). The process of legally conveying a residential property from one party to another is complex. In this module, conveyancing will be considered in all its contexts: freehold and leasehold, registered and unregistered, new builds and existing. The emphasis will be on developing your awareness of the core transactional steps through practical application.
Practical Legal Skills
This module is designed to introduce you to a range of practical legal skills which are used in the day to day practice of a solicitor and enables you to learn how to develop your skills in practical legal research by providing a structured approach to researching unfamiliar legal topics using both traditional and modern resources. You’ll also focus on the solicitor’s need to communicate appropriately, both with their clients and on behalf of their clients and the best practice when using interviews and letters to deal with a client’s matter. For many solicitors, communication on behalf of their clients will involve formal advocacy in court settings and the last element of this module will help support you to develop your skills in advocacy.
Option modules:
Choose three from a list of modules which may include:
Legal Advice Clinic
This module is a clinical and a practical module with a client focused application of theory to practice. You'll have the opportunity to learn about the management of clients who present with a range of legal problems and the empowerment of those clients through the provision of legal advice. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your professional skills including interviewing, researching, problem solving, reflective practice, drafting and advising. This module acts as an integrative medium to support clinical learning and show the application of theory to practice.
Commercial Property
This module covers the legal principles and practice relevant to the sale, purchase, development, funding and leasing of property that is occupied for commercial uses. You'll learn about the content of a standard commercial lease and the drafting and negotiation of key clauses from both the landlord’s and tenant’s perspective. The emphasis throughout will be on developing your ability to give practical advice to the client.
Commercial Law and Practice
The aim of the module is to introduce you to the needs of the client and to give you a broad overview of some of the main areas of work undertaken by a solicitor in commercial practice. You'll learn about commercial contracting, intellectual property and commercial dispute resolution. The module will be particularly useful if you are planning a career as a commercial solicitor; it would also be useful if you are considering starting your own business, or contemplating a career generally in the commercial sector.
Immigration and Asylum Law and Practice
In this module you'll learn the principles and practice of immigration and asylum law. You'll develop an understanding of the nature, scope and processes of immigration and asylum law and be able to recognise and deal with the more commonly encountered problems and procedures. These include the right of abode, regulation of immigration and asylum work, state protection and the convention reasons, exclusions from protection under the refugee convention, human rights in the immigration and asylum context and deportation and removal.
Family Law and Practice
In this module you'll explore the legal principles governing the breakdown of adult relationships for both married and unmarried couples, learn about divorce and civil partnership dissolution and associated financial remedy issues and contrasts how the law differs for cohabiting couples. You'll also study the potential solutions for survivors of domestic abuse and consider private law children proceedings and how matters may be resolved without the need for court proceedings.
Private Client
The aim of this module is to provide you with an opportunity to explore in more depth the areas of will drafting, estate and capital tax planning and a range of further Private Client matters. On completion of this module, you'll know how to prepare simple wills, apply a range of tax planning measures to the making of a lifetime gift, know how to draft Lasting Powers of Attorney for both financial and health matters and have an appreciation of the range of advice that is required to support the creation of such Powers. You'll also have the opportunity to develop an understanding of decision-making when a person loses mental capacity but has not made any prior provision as to what should happen in that event and consider the range of funding issues pertinent to living in long-term residential care home and what provisions may be made in advance of needing care.
Employment Law and Practice
In this module you'll consider the law, practice and procedure in employment cases including that relating to employment contracts and status, dismissal for fair and unfair reasons, discrimination and Transfer of Undertakings Regulation (TUPE ) transfers. You'll examine the employment tribunal procedure for bringing and responding to claims, learn about compensation and formal settlement of an employment claim and will examine the progress of cases through the employment tribunal to final hearing.
On average 19%* of the study time on this course is spent with your tutors (either face to face or online) in lectures, seminars, workshops etc. Based on your choice of modules, assessments vary from essays and exams to reports, case notes, briefs, oral presentations, moots, skills-based, reflective learning, and clinic-based learning. Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.
Feedback (either written and/or verbal) is provided on all coursework submissions within three term time weeks – unless the submission was made towards the end of the session in which case feedback would be available on request after the formal publication of results. Feedback on final coursework is available on request after the publication of results.
*based on 22/23 programme specifications
Further information
The teaching year normally starts in September with breaks at Christmas and Easter, finishing with a main examination/assessment period around May/June. Timetables are normally available one month before registration.
Your course is made up of modules and each module is worth a number of credits. Each year you study modules to the value of 120 credits, adding up to 360 credits in total for an honours level bachelor’s qualification. These credits can come from a combination of core, compulsory and optional modules but please note that optional modules may not run if we do not have enough students interested.
If you achieve 120 credits for the current stage you are at, you may progress to the next stage of your course, subject to any professional, statutory or regulatory body guidelines.
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The University of Huddersfield has been rated Gold in all three aspects of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023. We were the only university in Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West to achieve Gold ratings in all three aspects of the TEF among those announced in September 2023. In fact only 13 Universities, out of the 96 that were announced in September 2023, were Gold in all three ratings.
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Further proof of teaching excellence: our staff rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates, who have higher degrees, and hold teaching qualifications (HESA 2024). So, you’ll learn from some of the best, helping you to be the best.
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We are joint first in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 23 since 2008 (2024 data).
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We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award, recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017).
Read more about academic staff at the University of Huddersfield
At Huddersfield, you'll study the Global Professional Award (GPA) alongside your degree* so that you gain valuable qualities and experiences that could help you to get the career you want, no matter what your field of study is. On completion of the Award, you'll receive a GPA certificate from the University of Huddersfield, alongside the specialist subject skills and knowledge you gain as part of your degree, which may help to set you apart from other graduates.
Giving students access to the Global Professional Award is one of the reasons the University won ‘Best University Employability Strategy’ award at the National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2021. Find out more on the Global Professional Award webpage.
*full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees.
Entry requirements
ABB-BBBat A Level . |
128-120 UCAS tariff points from a combination of Level 3 qualifications. |
Distinction at T Level |
DDM in BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma. |
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If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.
Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.
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Important information
Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons
When you enrol as a student of the University, your study and time with us will be governed by our terms and conditions, Handbook of Regulations and associated policies. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these as you will be asked to agree to them when you join us as a student. You will find a guide to the key terms here, along with the Student Protection Plan.
Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons
Changes to a course you have applied for but are not yet enrolled on
If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment. We may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and we will discuss with you other suitable courses we can transfer your application to. If you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.
Changes to your course after you enrol as a student
Changes to option modules:
Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have an equivalent range of options to that advertised for the course. We will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.
Major changes:
We will only make major changes to non-optional modules on a course if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change is a change that substantially changes the outcomes, or a significant part of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum. For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators or a commissioning or accrediting body. We may also make changes to improve the course in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback or to ensure you are being taught current best practice. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment, or pandemics.
Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but may happen sooner in an emergency. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.
In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed in accordance with the student protection plan.
The Office for Students (OfS) is the principal regulator for the University.