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Hi there,

I come back with an update! As promised, I forwarded your query to the Doctoral College and recieved the following response:

'I would like to start by saying that whilst we fully appreciate the timesheet can be quite clunky it does make us compliant with employment and UK VI legislation.  We have just had a Home Office audit where we were required to supply copies of timesheets to show our Tier 4 students (many of whom are Demonstrators) were not working over their visa limitations.  We also recognise there are better ways of processing timesheets and are currently investigating ways to improve the process and deliver efficiencies.  There can be significant cost implications to purchasing a timesheet system and unfortunately as I’m sure you can appreciate the University is quite complicated when it comes to the various way in which people are paid, even for casual work.  We are currently working with a supplier to develop an automated timesheet and we will involve key stakeholders including yourselves in the conversations to ensure we develop something that is fit for purpose.'

I hope this helps to clarify your query. If you have any further questions or want to chat through this more, please do not hesitate to drop me an email to vpcommunities@susu.org

Best wishes,

Emily Harrison,

Vice President Student Communities, 2018-19

Monday 29th Apr 2019 5:39pm

Hi there,

Thank you for your You Make Change submission.

This does sound unnecessarily complicated! I must admit, I do not know what the exact reason for this current set up is and what the barriers to a website or interface such as you describe are. I will contact the Doctoral College and raise this issue and come back to you as soon as I have an update!

Kind regards,

Emily Harrison,

Vice President Student Communtiies, 2018-19.

Friday 12th Apr 2019 4:00pm

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