Ordinance I: Matriculation - Keele University
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Ordinance I: Matriculation

1 Matriculation is the formal enrolment of a student in the University to pursue a course of study leading to undergraduate Certificates or Diplomas or to any Degree or to such Diplomas or Certificates as require graduate status as the normal qualification for entry.

2 Save as provided in the following sentence candidates for matriculation shall be at least seventeen years of age on the first day of October in the years of their candidature and shall have passed an examination approved by the Senate as a qualification for matriculation or been exempted therefrom by the Senate under conditions prescribed by Regulation. The Vice-Chancellor shall have the power to relax the condition as to age in exceptional cases.

3 Students upon matriculation with the University shall pay the fee prescribed by Regulation, and provide the University with all personal data necessary to comply with the statutory requirements of the funding bodies and other government agencies, including their date of birth. Use of this data is governed by the terms of the University's registration under the Data Protection Act.

4 Matriculation shall confer the privileges of student membership of the University as appropriate to the respective classes of student and shall carry the obligation to conform to the rules of the University and to submit to the jurisdiction of the Senate.

5 Full-time students shall be:

      a) any student registered for a Degree, Diploma or Certificate course of the University lasting for one or more academic years and liable to pay tuition fees at the rates prescribed for full-time students;

      b) during the year of leave, any full-time student granted leave of absence by the Senate for the purpose of holding office in the Students Union;

      c) any student who, during the final year of a full-time course, has been elected to an office in the Students Union for which leave of absence is given by the Senate and for the duration he/she holds such office provided that:

            i) the duration, including any re-election to office, shall not extend for more than two years beyond the completion of his/her full-time course, and that

            ii) no person shall be elected to sabbatical office or hold paid elected office for more than two years in total.