Faculty Student Charter
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Student Charter
The Faculty of Business Administration believes that having a student charter at the faculty level is essential for having a harmonious relationship between the faculty members and students.
The charter represents an agreement that bounds both sides of the learning processes that take place at the premises of the University. It includes a set of expectations from both the faculty and students.
Faculty Student Charter that partly is derived from the Student Charter issues by the Student Affairs Directorate. For further information about all dimensions of the Student Charter, please visit the web page related to it here.
The set of expectation that is related to the Faculty is as follows:
You can expect us to:
- utilize a well-rounded combination of teaching and learning approaches that match with your aims, needs and experience and that do not go beyond the program’s learning objectives and outcomes;
- provide you with sufficient information in the Course Syllabus about each course’s learning outcomes and teaching and assessment methods including their conditions in terms of the mark is granted, the standard expected from you to reach and the type of feedback that you should be provided with;
- allocate instructors and support staff who are responsible for developing and meeting professional and contemporaneous standards and who are well qualified in their subject;
- create a system that maintains well-managed and coordinated learning program and support services;
- maintain a clean, safe and appropriately-equipped learning environment;
- postpone, reschedule or cancel classes on in advance and in exceptional situations;
- inform you well in advance on the implications of handing in work late, and what are the procedures that may be taken with regard to plagiarism and cheating;
- sustain a considerate environment for students with disabilities in order not to be disadvantaged;
- having in place clear guidelines of receipt of any piece of work you hand in for assessment;
- provide feedback on assessments within a time frame of two weeks of the formal date for handing assessments in;
- publish details of the exam timetables five weeks before the exams begin;
- inform you before exams begin where and when results are published; and
- Send you a formal notification acknowledging your course results in a timely way. (Students who have yet outstanding fees will not receipt an acknowledgment)
We expect you to:
- take the initiative to discuss your needs particularly before you join us;
- ensure you show up for appointments with specialists whether they are advisers or assessors;
- take responsibility for your own studying and make sure that those circumstances that may lead you to struggle to discuss them before becoming surmounting;
- Make all necessary prepare for a class by completing the essential readings prior to the lectures.
- Get engaged in offline and online discussions to become much more competent to think through and articulate confidently the content of the addressed or assigned topics.
- Take notice that your lack of preparation is a form of discourtesy to your classmates as the Course Instructor will end up repeating material in class which should have been already covered in the independent study.
- Have the full ownership of turning up on time for the lecture
- Avoid having all walks of distractions in the classrooms including side talks and switching on mobiles.