For course completion it is deemed necessary for students to fulfil these requirements:
The successful completion of the assessment component of each paper, and:
Attendance at lectures or, in the case of distance education, the completion of journal entries.
The following are TCI’s procedures regarding the cut off dates for extensions for the assessment component, see (a) above.
1. Students may be given an extension over and above the deadline for assignments at the discretion of the lecturer.
2. This extension must not exceed such a length of time that the assessment becomes invalid or unreliable, or disadvantages the student and/or the rest of the class.
3. This extension must be within the calendar year that the student has attended the course. An exemption is made for the last course of the year, in which case the extension can go beyond the actual year of course attendance but must finish before the next year’s courses commence.
4. This extension must not be more than one extra month beyond the deadline given for the assignment.
5. In the event that a student cannot meet the assessment deadlines due to reasons beyond the student’s control, and where an extension is deemed inappropriate, the student may apply formally for an aegrotat result if at least 50% of the course’s assessment tasks have been completed.
6. Reasons beyond the student’s control include illness, death of a close relative, funeral of a close relative, illness of a close relative requiring the student’s time over a period of time.
7. The student must formally apply for an aegrotat pass and must include a medical certificate or an equivalent record that demonstrates the student’s inability to progress with the requirements of the course.
The following are TCI’s procedures regarding (b) above:
1. All students are encouraged to attend all lectures in every course of study.
2. Where a student is absent from more than one session in every course but not more than two:
a. If the absence is beyond the student’s control, such as in the case of illness, death, funeral, etc., there is provision for the student, in consultation with, and at the discretion of, the lecturer, to make up the time missed by:
I. attending any tutorials and/or sessions if the lecturer deems this fit, and/or undertaking to complete any required reading and:
II. Ensuring that work and any assignment given on the day the lecture was missed is done.
3. If a student misses more than two lectures out of a six-lecture course, and more than three in an eight-lecture course, the student will be deemed as not completing the course. The student must enrol for the whole course the following year.
4. Students are encouraged to keep to starting and finishing times of a lecture. A student who is regularly late for a lecture, that is by 10 minutes or more, or regularly leaves class earlier, that is by 10 minutes or more, will incur the penalty of non-completion of the course. The student must enrol for the whole course the following year.