Intermitting students are required to accept the terms and conditions below:
- You will normally be required to return to your
studies at the equivalent point to which you left. Applications to intermit can
be backdated by one calendar month or to the start of the current unit of
teaching, whichever is longer.
- If you have received permission to intermit, you
will be expected to restart your studies at the next presentation of the course
which is normally one academic year later but may be less frequent. Please
contact your Course Director or Course Administration team for details on when
courses will run.
You would not normally be permitted to intermit from a
programme more than twice, and this would be in exceptional circumstances only.
If you are granted an intermission, your course fee payments will be suspended
and resumed when you return to your studies. If you have paid your course fees
in full, ICE will retain the fees until you return to study, or you can request
a refund for the units you have not studied and payment will be resumed on your
return. For this purpose any requested refund of fees for units not studied
will be deemed to be those for which no teaching has been received. Teaching
includes access to the Unit VLE or attendance at teaching sessions. Payments
will be due one month prior to your re-enrolment on the VLE course space.
When you return from a period of intermission you may be required to pay any
difference in the course fees at the time of your return.
ICE is committed to making every effort to enable you to complete your studies
and we will discuss study options with you before you are due to return.
However we cannot guarantee that courses will be identical in content, repeated
in the same format, or necessarily run again.
You will need to contact your Course Administration team to confirm your return
to the course at least two months prior to your scheduled return and to request
information regarding the payment of any difference in fees.
Before you return to study you will be offered a
meeting with your Course Director who will be able to offer you pastoral
support.
You will be subject to the ICE policies and
procedures active at the time of your return.
During intermission your access to the VLE for the unit(s)
you have completed will be reduced to a read-only status and access to the
unit(s) from which you are intermitting will be suspended until your return.
If you are not in a position to return to study at the
scheduled return date you may apply for a second intermission, however, a
second intermission is rare and would only be granted in exceptional circumstances
and on provision of relevant evidence. Should you be unable to return to your
studies within a 36 month period you will be withdrawn from the course.
Applications to intermit following the end of the academic
year will not be considered unless truly exceptional circumstances apply that
will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Apprentices seeking a pause in their learning will need to
follow the Break in Learning policy outlined in their apprenticeship
documentation.