School of Social Sciences

On a monthly basis main supervisors are required to complete “attendance and engagement” milestones in eProg for each student. You can complete all your upcoming forms altogether in one place in eprog - select “my research students” and you will see a menu item on the left saying attendance and engagement. Click on attendance and engagement and all your students’ attendance and engagement milestones will appear so you can complete them in one go.

This is especially important as we use those milestones to carry out our obligations as a sponsor of students here on a tier 4 visa.

Students may, with your agreement, take up to eight weeks’ holiday in each year (pro rata for parts of year), inclusive of weekends and public holidays. Students receiving sponsorship are expected to bear in mind their obligations to the sponsor and consult the policy of their sponsor when planning leave.

Please let your PGR administrator know when you authorise a student to take annual leave.

When a Research Council funded student takes approved time out of their programme due to illness and they continue to receive their stipend payment this means that they do not formally interrupt their programme and their deadline to submit their thesis does not change.

The University requires students to reside within a commutable distance from Manchester during their time as a registered student, unless they are on approved fieldwork/a formal placement or are on a period of 'submission pending'. This is to ensure that they are able to meet attendance expectations and participate in wider research activities within the discipline area and/or school.

Should they be unable to do this at any point, they will need to make a formal case to the Faculty office, together with the full support of their supervisor(s). The University reserves the right to reject such a request where it is considered that the student's residency could have a detrimental impact on the progression and engagement of their studies.