The campus Health and Safety Policy has been formulated with due consideration to the campus’s responsibilities as an employer, enshrined in the Health and Safety at work Act, and the management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.

Our Health and Safety Policy enables the campus to operate effectively and allow its staff, students and visitors to undertake their activities without detriment to their health, safety and wellbeing. We embrace the ‘Zero Harm’ progamme as it recognizes that our goal is to ensure that our activities do not result in harm, injury or ill health to staff, contractors or others.

Advice and guidance on the topics regarding health and safety can be accessed through the IBA website. Hard copy printouts can be supplied by the staff to individuals who do not have access to the website, on request.

Our goals are

• to consider all work-related ill-health as preventable
• to have a culture in which there is full engagement with safety and safe working practices
• to enhance our level of performance over time in everything we do

We can encourage all those we work with to be more mindful of health and safety in everything we do as we want to manifest an environment with ‘zero harm’.

Health and safety policy statement

• To provide and maintain equipment and systems of work that are safe and without risks to health
• To provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the health and safety of employees, students and visitors
• To maintain any place of work or study under the campus control in a condition that is safe and without risks to health
• To provide and maintain a working or study environment for employees and students that is safe and without risks to health and is adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work
• To provide such protective equipment as is required by risk assessment for the health and safety of employees and students
• To keep the campus Health and Safety Policy under regular review

The campus Health and Safety Policy has been formulated with due consideration to the campus’s responsibilities as an employer, enshrined in the Health and Safety at work Act, and the management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.

Our Health and Safety Policy enables the campus to operate effectively and allow its staff, students and visitors to undertake their activities without detriment to their health, safety and wellbeing. We embrace the ‘Zero Harm’ progamme as it recognizes that our goal is to ensure that our activities do not result in harm, injury or ill health to staff, contractors or others.

Advice and guidance on the topics regarding health and safety can be accessed through the IBA website. Hard copy printouts can be supplied by the staff to individuals who do not have access to the website, on request.

Our goals are

• to consider all work-related ill-health as preventable
• to have a culture in which there is full engagement with safety and safe working practices
• to enhance our level of performance over time in everything we do

We can encourage all those we work with to be more mindful of health and safety in everything we do as we want to manifest an environment with ‘zero harm’.

Health and safety policy statement

• To provide and maintain equipment and systems of work that are safe and without risks to health
• To provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the health and safety of employees, students and visitors
• To maintain any place of work or study under the campus control in a condition that is safe and without risks to health
• To provide and maintain a working or study environment for employees and students that is safe and without risks to health and is adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work
• To provide such protective equipment as is required by risk assessment for the health and safety of employees and students
• To keep the campus Health and Safety Policy under regular review

Objectives

• To encourage applications from various age groups ( students after O/L & A/L exams and workers )
• To ensure that each applicant is individually assessed without partiality in accordance with the policy on equal opportunities
• To construct a secure, accurate and accessible audit trail to ensure that students registration and certification claims can be tracked to the certificates which are issued for students

Procedures

Admission office and the department of examinations will implement the following procedures

• Every applicant is considered individually in a holistic assessment using all the information available to us: Their academic record, including GCSE grades and A Level (or equivalent) grades or predictions The personal statement Submitted work, where requested
• Students are registered within 30 days of when they start the programme
• Admissions team will be given regular advises to inspect the accuracy of students being registered by Academic Administrator and the heads of the particular departments.
• Campus provides exhaustive information about all aspects of the admissions procedures through the range of publications and website.
• Students can transfer their registration and achievement to date between centres. Transfer between programmes is permitted. The admission office should ensure that adequate information about the transferee’s position and progress is communicated.
• IBA Certificates will be issued to students, having been inspected the accuracy and completeness by Director and CEO, and the certificates received from the international awarding body will be scrutinised before being handed over to the students, by international affiliation department. Any inconsistencies found will be reported to the awarding body immediately.
• All records will be kept safely and securely in the database
• This policy will be reviewed annually by CEO and the head of Academic and Quality Assurance.

Overview of the academic appeals procedure

The case will be considered by Academic appeal panel at the campus

Who can use the academic appeals procedure

The appeals procedure is available to students of IBA campus

The right to appeal

The students have the right to appeal to the academic appeals committee against the following final decisions of an academic body charged with making decision on assessment, progression and awards

• The requirement to take reassessments to progress to the next stage of a taught course
• A decision not to award the qualification for which a student is registered. This relates to the decisions make at the end of a student’s taught course; and includes appeals against decision not to award any qualification or to award a lower qualification

Principles of this policy

• The appeals will be treated seriously and students will not suffer any disadvantage or recrimination as a result of making an appeal in good faith
• The procedures are fair and transparent
• The process is evidence –based
• The Campus will correspond only with the student
• Students are encouraged to seek advice from student help desk at any stage in the process, including seeking advice on how to present their case effectively
• Appeals form part of the campus’ process of quality review and improvement are considered as providing valuable feedback rather than criticism.
• The campus publishes information about procedures to students and staff on the website
• Recording and monitoring of academic appeals

It is important that appeals are monitored in order to improve the student experience. The admission team will record and provide documentation to indicate the nature of appeals and outcomes. These details will be used to identify the problems and trends across the campus.

IBA Campus has introduced a new student attendance monitoring policy, guidelines and system as part of its commitment to providing a supportive learning environment and excellent student experience. The campus believes that attendance and engagement with teaching and learning is a major element in successful student retention, progression and achievement and employability.

The campus also has a legal duty for the majority of students to monitor engagement with teaching and to act on non-attendance. This legal duty arises from the requirement to report attendance to professional bodies, as well as enhancing the quality of student participation within the campus.

A centralized electronic system has been developed for monitoring attendance for these purposes and has been adapted according to the specific needs of Campus.

Key principles

• The attendance monitoring policy will apply to ALL students enrolled on an academic programme at IBA campus
• The Campus expects students to attend all scheduled learning session associated with each module of programme which they have elected or pursue
• The attendance of students on taught progammes in the campus is monitored by means of a chip-enabled swipe card, and the students are also required to sign on the attendance sheet provided by the campus
• If a student is found swiping someone else’s card, this will be considered a very serious disciplinary offence
• Attendance will only be considered when it is monitored. If for example a card reader is missing or not working then this will not count against a student’s attendance
• Students are responsible for remembering their card and for replacing any lost or damaged cards as soon as possible
• The campus will take action against students whose attendance is consistently poor and in extreme cases may require a student to withdraw
• Attendance reports shall be monitored and reviewed by the campus

Policy guidelines for students

• Ensuring they understand and adhere to the Attendance Monitoring Policy
• Attending all learning and teaching sessions associated with their programme of study
• Ensuring that they have their cards with them at all times and replacing any lost or damaged cards as soon as possible
• Maintaining contact with their personal tutor and attending any scheduled meetings
• Responding to any communications regarding their attendance from campus admission department
• Attending any meeting that is arranged as a consequence of inadequate attendance

This examination information is maintained in a safety file by the relevant department offering the course for reference upon request. In order to help students plan their time and study optimally for examinations, this document lays outs policies regarding final and in-term examinations. Lecturers at IBA are requested to provide notification of the major in-term examinations in the course syllabus. The final examination date is posted early in the semester. It is the responsibility of the student to give his or her lecturer sufficient notice to work with the lecturer to reschedule examinations if this is needed.

IBA campus’ main objective is to provide high quality provision across all subjects offered. The campus’s quality assurance procedures provide a framework within which lecturing activities are monitored and enhanced in order to achieve the aspiration of excellence. The campus’ quality assurance procedures are appropriate primarily for its teaching, learning and assessment activities, rather than being driven by external quality regimes.

The University is accountable for the quality and standards of its provision and is required to participate in the activities of bodies such as the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and various Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies. While consideration is given to the needs of such bodies, it is the General Board's policy that the University's quality assurance procedures should be appropriate primarily for its teaching, learning and assessment activities, rather than being driven by external quality regimes.

The University's procedures for assuring quality in teaching, learning and assessment are designed to reflect

• The mission of the University
• The complexity, diversity and federal structure of the University
• The University's nature as a community of scholars
• The conviction that academic staff and students are most effective in an environment that is supportive and participative rather than directive and managerial
• The collegiate nature of the University
• The delegated responsibility given to faculties and departments for their own quality assurance procedures
• A proportionate central approach to potential risk to learning and teaching provision and to assessment
• The General Board's Learning and Teaching Strategy

IBA campus’ main objective is to provide high quality provision across all subjects offered. The campus’s quality assurance procedures provide a framework within which lecturing activities are monitored and enhanced in order to achieve the aspiration of excellence. The campus’ quality assurance procedures are appropriate primarily for its teaching, learning and assessment activities, rather than being driven by external quality regimes.

The University is accountable for the quality and standards of its provision and is required to participate in the activities of bodies such as the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and various Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies. While consideration is given to the needs of such bodies, it is the General Board's policy that the University's quality assurance procedures should be appropriate primarily for its teaching, learning and assessment activities, rather than being driven by external quality regimes.

The University's procedures for assuring quality in teaching, learning and assessment are designed to reflect

• The mission of the University
• The complexity, diversity and federal structure of the University
• The University's nature as a community of scholars
• The conviction that academic staff and students are most effective in an environment that is supportive and participative rather than directive and managerial
• The collegiate nature of the University
• The delegated responsibility given to faculties and departments for their own quality assurance procedures
• A proportionate central approach to potential risk to learning and teaching provision and to assessment
• The General Board's Learning and Teaching Strategy

CEO Evaluation

• During the first two weeks of the semester, the CEO of the IBA campus usually evaluates the performance of the lecturers, including the course syllabus and any other materials or information the lecturer considers important
• During the following week, the CEO and lecturer meet to discuss the evaluation
• If both agree on all points, the CEO gives one copy to the lecturer and forwards another to the academic department
• If revisions are agreed upon, the CEO makes the changes within the week and forwards copies to the lecturer and the head of the particular academic department

Student Evaluation

• The lecturer picks up student evaluation forms and instructions from the academic department
• Students first complete the course information section and then answer the items dealing with the quality of instruction
• The student representative designated by the lecturer takes the completed evaluation forms to the Academic department
• After final grades are submitted, the Academic department at IBA submit these student evaluations and a summary to the lecturer

Students at IBA campus may use this procedure. The complaint procedure may only be used by an individual who is, or has been, registered as a student of the university and who is not recorded as being a leaver. Applicants wishing to make a complaint should use the complaint pages of the campus website or the complaint box installed at the reception of main campus.

Anyone wishing to make a complaint is encouraged to do so personally. Where a third party (such as parent or guardian) makes a complaint on behalf of a student, the student’s express written consent that the third party is acting on their behalf will be required. Anonymous complaints will not be considered unless there are exceptional and evidence-based reasons to do so.

What issues constitute grounds for complaint under this policy

• Failure of the campus to meet obligations
• Misleading or incorrect information in prospectuses or promotional material and other information provided by the university
• Concerns about the delivery of a programme, teaching, supervision or administration
• Poor quality of facilities, learning resources or services being provided by the campus

Principles of the policy

Complaints should be treated seriously and students must not suffer any disadvantage or recrimination as a result of making a complaint in good faith. However, students are required to abide by the principles of the discipline for students in making their complaint.

In all cases, it is desirable that complaints are resoled informally and quickly between the relevant parties, and the formal process is only started if that fails.

Complaints must be substantiated with evidence and expressed in clear language Students are encouraged to seek advice from ‘student help desk’ available at the main campus.

Recording and monitoring of complaints

It is important that complaints are monitored in order to improve the student experience. The admission team will record and provide reports to indicate the nature of complaints to CEO

Students should be given clear and full information at the outset of the programme on the nature, timing and general criteria of assessment and the need to plan effectively and manage their own learning appropriately.

Objectives

• To ensure that students know where and how to submit assignments for assessment
• To ensure that students know how to request an extension for submission or to claim extenuating circumstances
• To outline procedures for handling referred work and draft submission deadlines
• To outline the consequences of plagiarizing work

Students will fail assignments under this policy

• They fail to submit on or before the deadline
• They fail to meet the pass criteria
• They fail to meet the pass criteria after two referral attempts
• They fail to submit by the agreed deadline without submitting an AE
• They fail to submit by the AE deadline
• The have broken the ‘plagiarism’ rules

You must submit the form and supporting evidence to your the Academic Examinations Officer of the Campus.