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Jeff Admon
External students rights1 message
Central Drafting Unit Sheffield Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:05
Reply-To: Central Drafting Unit Sheffield
To: [email protected]
Dear Mr Admon
Thank you for your email of 29 January, addressed to Michael
Gove at the Department for Education, about University of London -
International Programmes. Your email waspassed to the Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills as higher Education issues fall
within the remit of this Department.
I hope you will appreciate that Ministers receive a large amount
of correspondence and are unable to respond to it all personally.
Therefore, on this occasion, I have beenasked to reply.
Firstly I should explain that Higher Education Institutes are
independent and autonomous bodies, and are entirely responsible for
the management of their own internal affairs, includin
addressing student complaints. Therefore, the Government cannot
intervene in matters between universities and students Also it is
for individual universities to decide how best to
explain and prepare for students for exams and to set their own
standards for academic achievement.
You also mentioned that you felt International students have no
elected representative. I would like to explain to you about the UK
Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA),
which is the UKs national advisory body serving the interests of
international students and those who work with them.
UKCISA may be able to advise on your concerns if there is no
other UK appeal process. Their website is at
http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/ which will have full contact details.
I hope this information is useful to you and may I take this
opportunity to wish you every success in the future.
Yours sincerely
Heather Carnell
Ministerial and Parliamentary Support Team (MPST), Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number
324449. If you need to contact us about this reply please email
[email protected] this
reference number.
For any other queries for the Department for Business,
Innovation and Skills, please email
[email protected]
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