Emergency Leave
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If personal circumstances affect your exams or assessments, or your attendance at teaching activities, you can make a request for mitigating circumstances. This includes extension requests on assessment deadlines. A panel will assess each request, and where necessary take action to mitigate for any impact on your performance.
Mitigating circumstances might include a significant short-term illness or injury, a long-term or recurring medical or mental health condition, the death or illness of a close family member, acute stress from personal or financial issues, absence for public service (e.g. jury service), or technical issues during an online exam or assessment.
Universty of Manchester gives further examples of what are and are not considered mitigating circumstances.
If the issue affects you for seven days or less, and does not affect an exam or assessment, you do not need to request mitigating circumstances. You should instead complete the and send this to your .
If the issue continues for more than seven days, or affects an exam or assessment, you can request mitigating circumstances. You can do this either before or shortly after an assessment deadline or exam.
Check this page to find your department/school's email:
You can also check this provided guide:
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Personal Mitigation Circumstance (PMC) should be used as a last resort. Please make sure you have engaged with , which can help you avoid using the PMC Procedure and help you to stay on track for progression and/or graduation. Please read the FAQs below before submitting a PMC request.
The Students' Union has created a short video about PMCs that you may find useful to break down the information: .
The university's is designed to help you continue your studies despite unexpected disruption which may impact on your assessments.
Check the and you can if your question isn’t covered.
You can view this process in the university's and our this includes a demonstration of how to an extension using a mobile device.
For Royal Northern College of Music, If a student feels that their performance in examinations or other assessments will be adversely affected by extenuating circumstances, they are strongly advised not to take the assessment and to submit in advance for consideration by the Extenuating Circumstance Panel.
