1

BSc/BA (Honours) AMAISBSc/BA (Honours) AMAIS

Meeting with Returning Students

Dr. Pedro Sampaio

AMAIS Programme Director

Office: MBS West 3.21

pedro.sampaio@manchester.ac.uk

2

Presentation StructurePresentation Structure

• Key Reminders for New Academic Year

• Work and Attendance Monitoring

• Final Year Students Information

• Feedback

• Support Sources

• Medical/Personal Problems

• Study Facilities

• Q&A

3

Key RemindersKey Reminders

• Register by the end of September or there will be a fine!• Choose your courses by 3 October 2014 – this includes

semester 2 courses as well!• Move to a timetabled seminar/workshop if you are in a holding

class (SEM0 or WSP0)• Pre-requisites must be passed at 40% or more (not by a

compensated fail)• Request programme changes as soon as possible via The

Undergraduate Office, D20• Degree Weightings 1/3 second year 2/3 final year • Meet with Academic Advisor if they need to.

• Make Sure You Observe All Rules to Avoid Academic Malpractice

• Student Charter – if any student needs a copy of the university’s charter you can obtain one from D20. 

4

• Timetable clashes are inevitable due to the level of choice available.

• For all programmes no core courses clash

Reminder About Module Choices

5

Work and Attendance Work and Attendance MonitoringMonitoring

• Attendance at all seminars, tutorials, labs and workshops is compulsory and will be monitored

• If you are unable to attend a class because of illness or other good reason, you will need to complete an ‘absence from class’ form and submit it to the undergraduate office. Forms are available from the UG office (D20) or can be downloaded from the MBS UG intranet

• If a student misses 3 or more consecutive seminars, tutorials, labs or workshops, this will be followed up by the Assessment and Student Support Centre. As we have a duty to make sure students attend classes and do not have any serious problems that are the cause of non-attendance.

6

Final Year StudentsFinal Year Students

• Start using the Careers Service if not already.

• Importance of NSS

7

FeedbackFeedback• You will receive feedback on your work in various forms:

– Non-assessed coursework may be marked and returned to you

– On-line quizzes on Blackboard

– Comments on group or individual presentations

– Generic feedback on examinations

• The objective is to help you monitor your progress and improve your performance

• Methods of Feedback – on assessed/non assessed student work and feedback from students at committees. There’s a section in the handbook on feedback of assessed/non assessed student work if you want to refresh your memory – see https://ughandbook.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Myassessment/Feedback.aspx.

•  

8

Sources of SupportSources of Support

• Academic Advisors• Course Coordinators and Programme Directors • Assessment & Student Support Centre, D14

• The Online Undergraduate Handbook :– https://ughandbook.portals.mbs.ac.uk/

(source of all information)

9

Academic Advisors and Academic Advisors and Academic Staff Hours Academic Staff Hours

• AAs can help with any aspect of academic life and refer to the Assessment & Student Support Centre for non academic issues.

• Use of academic staff ‘Office Hours’ – hours that are designated as time that academics are free to meet students.

10

Medical/Personal ProblemsMedical/Personal Problems

• In case of medical, personal or other problems of a serious nature which have (or are likely to have) an adverse effect on your studies, ideally students should seek help from their academic adviser, the Assessment and Student Support Centre (ASSC) at D14 (Absence, Illness, Forms) and the Programme Administrators.

• NOTE: It is important that the School is IMMEDIATELY informed about issues affecting your study

11

• C11 – Group Study Room that can be booked via D20 but students will have to leave their student card with D20 for the duration of the booking. Available 10am to 4pm.

• The Learning Commons has more rooms available for booking.

• Quiet space (libraries)

Study FacilitiesStudy Facilities

12

Good luck for the Good luck for the

forthcoming year!forthcoming year!