Student Handbook 2024/25

12.4. Self-certification

Each student is entitled to submit up to three self-certified claims per academic year, which involves providing details of the extenuating circumstances without the provision of documentary evidence.

Each self-certification can cover a period of up to seven calendar days - this is the maximum amount of time that each instance of self-certification can cover.

It is not permitted to use consecutive self-certification applications, that is, you cannot claim for two back-to-back seven-day periods using self-certification. Also, you cannot normally use a self-certified application more than once for the same assessment.

Please note that self-certification does not mean automatic approval of a claim – the School will consider it in the normal way and will check that it meets the criteria of the university's extenuating circumstances policy. Any claims beyond those three self-certifications must be accompanied by evidence as part of a standard EC claim, as described in the previous section.