Section 1 - Keele University
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Section 1 - Definitions

1. In these Statutes:-

“University" means the University of Keele.

"Charter" means the Charter of the University.

"Council" means the Council of the University.

"Senate" means the Senate of the University.

"Boards of Studies" means Boards of Studies of the University.

"Faculties" means Faculties of the University.

"Graduates" means Graduates of the University.

"Undergraduates" means Undergraduates of the University.

"Student" means any Student of the University following an undergraduate or postgraduate course.

"Statutes" means all the Statutes of the University.

"Ordinances" means Ordinances made pursuant to the Charter or Statutes.

"Regulations" means Regulations made pursuant to the Charter, Statutes or Ordinances.

"Electoral roll" means all Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers (other than such Professors, Readers and Senior Lecturers as shall be ex officio members of the Senate), Lecturers; and University Senior Research Fellows and University Research Fellows either having been in the employment of the University for three years or more or having a duration of appointment of three years or more.

”Academic year” means a period of 12 months between dates to be determined by Ordinance. The academic year shall be divided into terms or semesters or such other periods as shall be determined by Ordinance.

"Academic staff" means the Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers and such other staff as may be prescribed by Ordinance.

"Suspension" means that a Student who has been suspended by the Vice-Chancellor under Section 6.4 of the Statutes may not, for the period of suspension, attend any examination, lecture, tutorial, seminar, class or other course, nor receive any formal academic instruction except as specified by the Vice-Chancellor. In all other respects the student shall remain subject to the Charter, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University.

"Expulsion" means the termination of a Student's membership of the University by the Council after the student shall have been deemed by the Council after a report from the Vice-Chancellor to have been guilty of grave misconduct.

"Termination" means the termination by the Senate of the membership of the University of any student failing to fulfil the requirements prescribed in the Regulations in respect of the student's course of study.

2. Words defined in the Charter or the Statutes shall have the same meaning in the Ordinances and the Regulations unless the context be repugnant thereto.