Circumstances outside the University’s control

The University shall not be liable to you in circumstances outside the University’s control which could not have been foreseen or prevented.

even if the University had taken reasonable care, as long as the University has taken reasonable and proportionate steps to mitigate the impacts of these events.

It may be necessary for the University to:

• revise the terms, content or delivery (such as replacing physically attended activities with synchronous and/or asynchronous online teaching) of courses from those set out on the website and/or relevant course literature; or
• discontinue, suspend, merge or combine options within courses; or introduce new options within courses

These circumstances may include (yet are not exclusive to) the lack of availability of key personnel without whom the University cannot provide its services; under-demand from students; lack of funding; the acts or omissions of placement providers and other third parties; cancellation of third party licences; changes in the requirements of a commissioning or accrediting body; and other events such as government restrictions, global and/or national pandemics and/or epidemics, civil unrest, severe weather or failure of public or private communications networks.

If the University’s services to you are affected by such an event the University will give you as much notice as possible and, where necessary, take reasonably practicable steps to mitigate the effects on the services it provides to you, which will involve every effort being made to preserve the continuation of your study.