Education

Can the university make me repeat placement hours completed before a long interruption?

Can the university make me repeat an entire placement when I only need to make up missing hours or competencies?

Can the university charge an extra fee to repeat or extend a placement?

Can sickness absence or failure to follow the placement’s absence-reporting procedure cause me to fail?

Can I continue attending university teaching while I am removed from placement or awaiting a fitness-to-practise decision?

Can the university treat a failed placement or lack of competence as a fitness-to-practise case?

Who must prove a university fitness-to-practise allegation, and what standard of proof applies?

Can anonymous, patient or service-user complaints be used in a university fitness-to-practise case?

Must a university fitness-to-practise panel include an independent member and someone from my profession?

Can someone involved in the original concern investigate me, sit on the fitness-to-practise panel or decide my appeal?

How long can a university fitness-to-practise investigation and appeal take?

Can the university run disciplinary, academic and fitness-to-practise proceedings about the same incident?

Can fitness-to-practise proceedings continue after the police take no further action or I am acquitted?

Can I appeal a fitness-to-practise finding, conditions, suspension or removal from my course?

Is a fitness-to-practise appeal different from an academic appeal?

Must a fitness-to-practise panel consider remediation, insight, personal circumstances and less serious outcomes before removing me from my course?

Can a fitness-to-practise panel treat my denial of the allegation or decision to appeal as a lack of insight?

Can previous warnings or resolved concerns be used in a new fitness-to-practise case?

Must the university identify the exact professional standard I am alleged to have breached?

Can the university change or add fitness-to-practise allegations after the investigation has begun?