Health, safety and wellbeing
The University will act in accordance with all health and safety legislation and regulations to provide a safe working environment for you during the course of your studies.
This applies to all campuses where staff and students may be working or studying, or to the virtual learning environment for blended or distance learning programmes delivered online.
The University will monitor health and safety to ensure continuous improvement, to reduce the risk of an accident and to prevent injury and ill-health. If you are studying remotely from your own home/office/non-university location, you are responsible for the health and safety of your own physical environment.
The University will provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as is reasonably necessary to ensure the health and safety of its staff and students.
You must make yourself familiar with all of the University's procedures and regulations relating to health and safety, including the University's Safety Policy and any specific rules that apply to your programme or the building in which you are located. All health and safety procedures and regulations must also be followed when you are studying off campus. If you fail to follow health and safety procedures and regulations, the University may take disciplinary action against you.
You must inform the University if you have any mobility issues or if there is any other reason which would affect your ability to follow any health and safety procedures or regulations whilst on the campus or organised field trips. The University will make any reasonable adjustments and provide you with additional support to ensure your safety and wellbeing.
The University’s liability to you
If the University fails to comply with its contract with you, the University is responsible for any loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of the University's breach of contract or failure to use reasonable skill and care. However, the University is not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it is an obvious consequence of the University's breach or if it was contemplated by you and the University at the time the contract was entered into.
The University does not exclude or limit in any way its liability for:
- death or personal injury caused by the negligence of the University or its employees, agents or sub-contractors;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
- any other act or omission, liability for which may not be limited by law.
Subject to the points immediately above, the University's total liability to you (whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise), in connection with your contract with the University shall be limited to the value of the course fees paid by you or on your behalf or the amount, if any, that the University receives from its insurers in respect of a particular loss, whichever is the greater.
The University will not be liable to you for any lost or unreturned work submitted for assessment. It is important that you follow any instructions from the University in submitting work and that you retain copies of work submitted.
You will not be liable to the University for any failure or delay in performing your obligations under this contract which is due to any cause beyond your reasonable control. Similarly, the University will not be liable to you for any failure or delay in performing its obligations under this contract which is due to any cause beyond its reasonable control (including, but not exclusive to, those circumstances described in paragraph below).