change the late penalty back to working days rather than calendar days

Anonymous submitted on

Monday 9th December 2024

Complete

My, my, my... 

Changing the late penalty cap from 5 working days to 5 calendar days is an outrage.

It does not consider that many students, myself included, work very long hours on the weekend due to the Cost of Living crisis. I cannot 100% dedicate my weekends to my academic studies when I am trying earn money to survive, and yet the University feels it acceptable to punish me for this by taking off an extra 10% of my mark every day. Disgusting.

This should be rectified as soon as possible.


Responses

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Rebecca Would replied on

Wednesday 19th Feb 2025 2:11pm

Hi,

Thank you for submitting this concern, and apologies for my delay in responding. 

This change was introduced to increase equity among students - some academic areas were setting deadlines on Fridays so students had the weekend to work on university assessments without the late submission penalty coming in, thereby encouraging more students to have to work on weekends, compared to students with assessment deadlines set earlier in the week who would experience the penalty the following week day. The longer term plan includes encouraging lecturers to not set deadlines on Fridays, to further reduce the expectation that students should be working on assessments over the weekend. 

Any further questions about this, please reach out to me directly by emailing vpeddem@soton.ac.uk. 

Kind regards,

Rebecca 

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  • Forwarded to Vice President Education and Democracy

    Monday 6th Jan 2025 10:27am


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