Terms and
conditions
If you intend to apply for a place at QMU, you
must read the following Terms and Conditions
and ensure that you understand them. These
Terms and Conditions form the basis of the
contract you will enter into with QMU should
you be offered and accept a place with us.
1. Every effort has been made to ensure that
the information contained in this prospectus
is accurate at the time of publication
(February 2019). The University will use all
reasonable endeavours to provide
programmes of study listed in the
prospectus and to deliver them in
accordance with the descriptions of
programmes set out. However, as the
University is committed to ensuring that
programmes remain up to date and relevant,
it reserves the right to discontinue, merge or
combine programmes and to make
variations to the content or method of
delivery of programmes, if such action is
reasonably considered to be necessary by
the University. This, combined with the need
to publish the prospectus well in advance,
means that changes to the information
presented in the prospectus may have
occurred. Intending applicants are advised
to visit the University website www.qmu.ac.
uk/study-here/courses-a-z or contact
[email protected] before applying.
The content curriculum of a course may
change for a number of reasons, including
that:
• The change is required to ensure that the
course continues to deliver its key learning
outcomes and the content of
the course is responsive to changes
and developments in the areas covered by
the course.
• For courses leading to professional
qualifications, accreditation or registration,
the changes are required to continue to
satisfy pre-requisites of a particular
professional or regulatory body
responsible for awarding such
qualification, accreditation or registration.
• The change is not a material change
to the content or curriculum.
• The change operates for the benefit
of the students on the course.
• The change is required due to
circumstances outside the control
of the University, and
• It is necessary to ensure that the
programmes continue to align with the
University’s aims, strategy and mission.
Remedies for students impacted by any
such change may include, but are not
limited to, provision of alternative course
modules or courses, or the option to
transfer to another course at the University.
It may be desirable or necessary to
withdraw certain programmes from the
University’s portfolio of provision as a result
of a number of factors including changes in
patterns of demand from prospective
students, changes in staffing, a strategic
realignment of the University’s portfolio or a
major organisational change. The University
will use its best endeavours to consult
meaningfully with students who would be
affected by any such change in order to
assess any impact on students and mitigate
any disruption arising from the change and
to identify appropriate alternative
arrangements. Arrangements to support the
academic interests of existing students
impacted by any programme withdrawal will
be put in place. In all cases, the University
will make every effort to advise students at
the earliest possible opportunity of any
changes to the course content or curriculum
that may impact upon them.
2. In the event of external factors, such as
industrial action, the University undertakes
to minimise any disruption that may
subsequently arise, as far as is practicable.
3. An offer of a place at the University is made
on the understanding that, in accepting the
offer, the student undertakes to observe and
comply with these Terms and Conditions and
to abide by, and to submit to the procedures
of, the University’s Regulations, Policies and
Codes of Conduct, as amended from time to
time. The University’s Regulations, Policies
and Codes of Conduct are set out in full within
the University’s website at www.qmu.ac.uk/
about-the-university/quality. Changes to the
University’s Regulations may be made from
time to time for one or more of the following
reasons: to reflect changes to the statutory
requirements with which the University is
required to comply; to reflect best practice
regulation across the higher education sector;
and more broadly to ensure that the
University’s Regulations remain fit for purpose
as a result of changes or developments within
the University. Where the University’s
regulations are changed and the operation of
a new regulation would place a student in a
less favourable position than they would
158
otherwise have been under the old
regulations, that student may rely on the old
regulation as if it continued to apply. Whether
a student would be in a less favourable
position is a matter to be determined by the
University on a case by case basis depending
on the facts and circumstances of a particular
student. This would not apply to a situation
where the new regulations seek to address a
previously unregulated matter. All policies and
procedures are subject to regular review and
formal approval by the appropriate committee.
The University Court has agreed that the
University, recognising the need to protect the
health of students, staff and visitors to the
University, should aspire over time to become
a non-smoking campus. The University is
currently reviewing its Policies with a view to
achieving this aspiration. Students’ attention
shall be drawn to any amendments to policy
in this area.
4. Applicants will have 14 days from receipt of
their offer to enter a course to challenge their
fee status. Only exceptionally will changes to
fee status be considered after the 14-day
period. Applicants who accept an offer by
distance communication (for example, via
UCAS or online, without face to face contact)
have a legal right to cancel the contract at
any time within 14 days of the date of
acceptance of the offer. Where an applicant
wishes to cancel the contract within 14 days
of acceptance, he or she must do so by
informing the University in writing. Where an
applicant cancels within the 14-day period
after acceptance, any advance payment
made by that applicant shall be refunded in
full. Notwithstanding the aforementioned
rights to cancel within the initial 14-day period
from acceptance, applicants may withdraw
from study at the University, and cancel the
contract at any time after registration, by
following the University’s withdrawal
procedure. Where the contract is cancelled in
this way, applicants may remain liable for all
or part of the tuition fees paid by them or on
their behalf, in accordance with University
procedures. The University may cancel the
contract at any time in accordance with the
University’s Regulations, Policies and Codes
of Conduct.
5. Tuition fees are payable for all courses and are
subject to review annually. Tuition fees for new
and existing students are liable to increase
each year as a result of review. For continuing
students, any increase in the level of fee each
year will be subject to a maximum percentage
equivalent to the higher of the annual increase
in the UK Retail Prices Index and 5%. Factors
that will determine the need for, and extent of,
any increase include any increase set or
prescribed by regulatory bodies such as the
Scottish Funding Council, Scottish
Government, Student Awards Agency for