uni kicking me out for attendance?

my university emailed me today to say they are withdrawing me for poor attendance. i've emailed back saying i've completed every module and never failed a single one, in fact i've usually gotten good grades, but i'm now really upset and anxious. i'm in my final year and we have two more modules, are they really going to cancel out all that work?

Hi Dreemie,

I'm sorry to hear! I used to work in Student Services and unfortunately attendance is something that the university will monitor.

Are you able to talk to your head of year or someone from student services? Depending on the course you may have obtained some credits which would could be recorded and possibly used?

i've emailed student services, i'm not sure of what you mean by obtaining credits though

In short, yes they can.

But this will not have come out of the blue, and I suspect that we are not getting the full story.

For instance, one of my students were withdrawn for non-engagement: they passed everything but did not attend and rarely used Blackboard. The process to withdraw took months, and began with us first trying to contact the student via several avenues, in order to ascertain if there was a problem with which we could help. Have you been ignoring contact?

I have never seen an institution jump straight in with a withdrawal. There is a process during which there are ample opportunities to iron out issues.

I know it sounds ridiculous for me to say that I've received nothing before this about my attendance, but I honestly haven't. I don't gain anything from lying anonymously on the internet about this issue I'm having. They have me until next week to appeal or they're withdrawing me. I checked my email thoroughly, in case I've missed anything.

As others have said, despite it being a weird few years, you aren't really allowed to just opt out of attendance. Is there a specific reason why you did?

If it was me I would urgently beg, plead misunderstanding and pledge to attend every little thing, do everything I could to convince them I was serious about the course.

I imagine they probably have full right to withdraw you based on attendance, regardless of performance the same as any other education institution. Have you checked to see if they have an attendance policy?

i've not been able to find an actual attendance policy, but i have found on the site where they tell you how to record attendance, they have said that they intend to "support" people with low attendance. so i feel like they have made an error in jumping to the withdrawal email, since there has been nothing passed onto me about upping my attendance at any point before now.

at times i've not attended things because of work, anxiety around travel and not having the right equipment to do anything in class. though that said, I just checked my attendance and it says i have 0%, which definitely isnt right because i have been attending things i've needed to and i've also been checking in online when that has been an option

Ask them if they do have an attendance policy buried anywhere in their terms that you might have missed - Also explain that you haven't had any prior warnings or notes about attendance if you haven't and inquire as to why they're jumping straight to a possible withdrawal letter.

Did you communicate to the University the reasons why you were missing lectures etc frequently before now?

i've not been able to find an actual attendance policy, but i have found on the site where they tell you how to record attendance, they have said that they intend to "support" people with low attendance. so i feel like they have made an error in jumping to the withdrawal email, since there has been nothing passed onto me about upping my attendance at any point before now.

Ask them if they do have an attendance policy buried anywhere in their terms that you might have missed - Also explain that you haven't had any prior warnings or notes about attendance if you haven't and inquire as to why they're jumping straight to a possible withdrawal letter.

Did you communicate to the University the reasons why you were missing lectures etc frequently before now?

And this how I came to the realization that University/studying/working is nothing to do with grades and qualifications and rather something much more sinister. I was in the exact same position and just left cause its stupid. You wont get any sympathy from people on here, because a lot are lecturers/ teachers and therefore are so into the system. Since it looks like you want to continue with it , I hope you find a resolution and can only suggest really chasing them up about it.

my university emailed me today to say they are withdrawing me for poor attendance. i've emailed back saying i've completed every module and never failed a single one, in fact i've usually gotten good grades, but i'm now really upset and anxious. i'm in my final year and we have two more modules, are they really going to cancel out all that work?