Our new rules, policies and procedures have been published for the 2025/26 academic year. It's important that all BU students – new and returning – understand the changes that will come into effect from the start of the new academic year.
We know that these may not the most exciting documents to read, however they are important. They tell you about:
- How we make changes to a published course
- Payment of tuition fees
- Our complaints procedure
- Updates to your course or apprenticeship
- What to do if you feel your circumstances could affect your assessment results
- Impact on tuition fees if you were to interrupt your studies
- And more.
We have put information about our rules and regulations in an agreement to help you find them. The Student Agreement sets out the contractual relationship between you and us. You will be asked to confirm that you have read, understood and agree to it when you start your course for the first time, and every year when you re-register for each year of study.
As we usually do, we have also made changes to the policies and procedures covered by the agreement. We have provided a summary of key policy changes between 2024/25 and 2025/26 to help you understand what has been updated for this year.
You can access, download and save copies of the new style Student Agreement, summary of changes and all BU policies and procedures on our important information webpage. You can also access previous versions of the Student Agreement and summary of changes on our Student Agreement archive webpage.
If you have any questions, please contact your Programme Leader, Programme Support team, AskBU or SUBU Advice.
If you need to access the previous versions of policies and procedures, please email [email protected].
