General Regulations 2008-09

Regulation 3: Admission and enrolment

3.1 Students shall be admitted to Goldsmiths' College to read for such programmes of study leading to such qualifications as may be prescribed in the Ordinances of the University or Regulations of the College. In accordance with the relevant Programme Regulations students may be enrolled for full-time or part-time study lasting not less than one academic year.

3.2.1 Before admission to the College a student must comply with the entrance requirements laid down by the College and shall produce such documentary evidence of educational attainments and other relevant experience as may be required. Any student who secures admission to the College on the basis of qualifications, documents or statements which are subsequently found to be false, or who withholds information requested on the relevant application form, shall have his or her offer rescinded or registration terminated as appropriate.

3.2.2 Provisional enrolment: where, for reasons judged by the College to be valid, a student is unable, unavoidably, either to comply with entrance requirements and/or to produce required documentary evidence at the time of enrolment, such a student may be enrolled provisionally. Unless the student meets the enrolment requirements within a four week period, such provisional enrolment shall normally be terminated; the only exceptions will be where an individual case is reviewed by the Academic Registrar and permission given to extend the provisional enrolment by a further specified period.

3.3 A student who has not received the official written offer of a place from the College Registry may not be admitted to, or enrolled on, a programme of study.

3.4 Such an offer will not be made until a completed application form has been lodged with the College Registry.

3.5 No offer of a place shall be made later than four weeks after the beginning of the programme concerned except with the agreement of the relevant Head(s) of Department.

3.6 No student shall be offered a place as a part-time student for a programme normally involving fifteen hours or more per week of prescribed attendance or activities during term.

3.7 A student who is ineligible to pay full-time fees at the lower rate paid by European Union students, and who cannot supply written evidence of authority from the Home Office to reside in the United Kingdom for the period of the programme concerned (or where such permission to reside in the UK has been given by the Home Office on the understanding that the student is undertaking a full-time programme of study), may not be admitted or subsequently enrolled as a part-time student.

3.8 Applicants to programmes of professional training, including Community and Youth Work, Social Work, Teaching, Dance Movement Therapy and Art Psychotherapy are required to satisfy the College of their fitness to train, including the production of an enhanced disclosure certificate from the Criminal Records Bureau, and registration with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) created under the Vulnerable Groups Act (where appropriate) before they will be permitted to enrol fully as a student of the College.

3.9 It will be the responsibility of the applicant/student to pay the fee for an enhanced disclosure certificate, and registration/charges with the ISA at the current stated rate.

3.10 Under statutory instrument 1023 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, no conviction or police caution is ever considered spent in relation to the process of determining fitness to train on programmes of professional training including Community and Youth Work, Social Work, Teaching, Dance Movement Therapy and Art Psychotherapy.

3.11 The College reserves the right to ask any student about unspent criminal convictions and other offences when determining whether to extend an offer to join the College community, and reserves the right to ask any student to obtain a CRB disclosure certificate.

3.12 In determining fitness to train or join the College community, the College may ask for further information concerning any convictions, cautions or other relevant information, as well as a reference(s) from the Probation Service or other organisation.

3.13 An appeals mechanism exists, governing the assessment of fitness to train/declaration of criminal convictions process, details of which are available from the office of the Academic Registrar.

3.14 On admission all students shall undertake in writing to observe and to comply with the Charter, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of Goldsmiths' College, and with the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University of London, and with any relevant legislation at that time in force.

3.15 Heads of Department shall appoint an Admissions Tutor for each undergraduate programme.

3.16 Students shall normally enrol and either pay or where appropriate make acceptable arrangements for the payment of tuition fees, at the time specified in the enrolment timetable provided annually by the College Registry.

3.17 A student whose programme of study starts at the beginning of an academic year shall not be permitted to enrol after 1 November of that year unless there are extenuating circumstances agreed before that date by the Head of Department and the Academic Registrar to be exceptional.

3.18 Students shall not be permitted to enter any examination leading to an award unless they have enrolled with the College and paid, or made acceptable arrangements for the payment of, the appropriate tuition fee.

3.19 No student will be permitted to enrol concurrently for more than one undergraduate award (ie degree, diploma or certificate), save by permission of the Academic Registrar on the recommendation of the appropriate Head(s) of Department. No student will be permitted to enrol concurrently for a postgraduate award except as specified in the Regulations for Postgraduate Taught Students or the Regulations for Postgraduate Research Students. At its discretion, the College may offer provisional enrolment to such a student.