• Contact details
• Essential information for students
  • Proctors' and Assessor's Memorandum
    • Foreword
    • Section 1: Introduction
    • Section 2: Welfare Matters
    • Section 3: Safety and Security
    • Section 4: Oxford University Student Union
    • Section 5: Sport, Clubs and Recreation
    • Section 6: University Academic Support and Other Services
    • Section 7: Residence
    • Section 8: Intellectual Property and Students
    • Section 9: Examinations
    • Section 10: Conduct
    • Section 11: Disciplinary Procedures
    • Section 12: Fitness to Study
    • Section 13: Complaints Procedures
    • Section 14: Office of the Independent Adjudicator
    • Appendix A: University of Oxford Equality Policy
    • Appendix B: University Policy and Procedure on Harassment and Bullying
    • Appendix C: Matters Relating to the Student Union
    • Appendix D: Freedom of Speech
    • Appendix E: Regulations of the Rules Committee
    • Appendix F: Regulations Relating to the use of the Facilities of the Bodleian Libraries
    • Appendix G: Regulations Relating to the use of Information Technology Facilities
  • Code of Conduct: Behaviour after Examinations
  • Drug Misuse Guidelines
  • Guidelines about Student Newspapers and External Websites
• Complaints
• Student Support
• Examinations
• Student Discipline
• Student Clubs
• College forms
• Proctors’ complaints and disciplinary cases 2012-13
• Policy and Guidance for Examiners

Foreword

by the Proctors and Assessor, March 2013 - March 2014

As a student you have links both with your particular College and with the University as a whole. Essential Information for Students contains factual information and advice you may need about the University side of your life to help you to make the most of the intellectual, cultural and social opportunities on offer at Oxford. The topics covered include funding, health, welfare, personal safety and security, accommodation, the central Student Union, setting up a student club, University sport, Libraries, IT and other support services.

As well as providing general information and guidance, this booklet gives you formal notification (and explanation) of the University’s codes on residence, intellectual property rights, examinations, conduct, medical fitness to study, and complaints. Please take time to read the information, so that you do not end up at a disadvantage if you get into difficulties or want to exercise your rights under any of the procedures.

Although we are senior officers of the University, we are not professional administrators but ordinary academics elected by our colleges to serve for one year with particular oversight of examinations, conduct and welfare. We are well aware of the needs and pressures of student life. If you have any concerns, or suggestions for improvement, they can be channelled through the officers of OUSU and your JCR and MCR presidents, with whom we have regular meetings. Alternatively you are welcome to consult us directly by appointment for assistance and advice. The inside cover of the booklet gives our contact details, and throughout you will find the details of other important contacts inside and outside the University should you need to follow up any of the matters referred to.

We hope that you have a successful and enjoyable time as a student at Oxford University.

Our successors for March 2014 - March 2015 will be: Kate Blackmon (Merton College), Senior Proctor; Hubert Ertl (Linacre College), Junior Proctor; Paul Martin (Wadham College), Assessor

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