disabilities/long-term medical conditions Applications must be supported by medical evidence. Requests for alternative arrangements for dyslexia, dyspraxia and other specific learning difficulties must be accompanied by a diagnostic report from an appropriately qualified psychologist or a specialist teacher. Applications relating to short-term illness or injury When students make applications for alternative arrangements relating to short-term illness or injury at short notice, college nurses, Senior Tutors or Deans may provide a statement to support this, if followed by a medical certificate within seven days. Please note: from Trinity term 2016 college nurses may issue medical certificates without the need for a follow-up doctor’s certificate in certain cases of acute illness, as follows. Last minute adjustments: for alternative arrangement requests made within 24 hours before the examination, for reasons of acute illness, the following evidence will be accepted: a) a medical certificate (or view, the University should consider alternative arrangements for examinations for the student, whether alternative arrangements should be considered for all examinations during their course/programme or only for certain time periods, or whether alternative arrangements should be considered for certain types of examinations only (e.g. for timed written examinations or orals or practicals). It also allows you, if you wish, to make recommendations on alternative arrangements that the University might wish to consider. Please see Annex A of this guidance for examples of common adjustments to examination arrangements. Please note: from October 2014 students do not need a medical certificate to support minor adjustments and permission to take medical aids/medication into an examination. A letter from the college Senior Tutor or college nurse is sufficient. This would include bringing snacks, and medications including asthma inhalers, eye drops, ear plugs, nasal spray or a cushion into an examination, or wearing for example a wrist splint. For students with Type 1 diabetes this would also include bringing blood-testing kits, glucose drinks and/or tablets, insulin with syringes.
for students with significant disabilities or severe health conditions, and require medical evidence in support. The Disability Advisory Service is also usually involved. Examples of adjustments include: significant extensions to the submission date for a thesis or dissertation an extension to the period of time in which a taught course is normally taken alternative methods of assessment Detailed medical evidence is generally required for these rare applications. Suspension from study Students can request medical certificates to support applications to suspend study for medical reasons. These applications are normally made to colleges or departments. In the case of postgraduate research degrees, these applications are often made retrospectively, following an illness. Please indicate how the medical condition is preventing the student from completing the usual workload required of them, and/or from meeting the usual academic, social, and/or behavioural requirements of a University student. It is important to provide evidence of the duration of the condition. It is useful if possible to provide an opinion on when a student may be fit to resume study. This may be before the student would normally be expected to return to study. Applications for support for disabled students Disabled students need formal evidence of their disability in order to access support from the University and external sources. For conditions other than specific learning difficulties, a medical certificate from a Please include information on how long the student has had the condition/when they were diagnosed, and on what treatment/support they are currently receiving (or that is recommended).