I need help please`! I have resits on the 23rd and am medically unfit to sit them.

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The uni have extended my second year, I have resits to pass on the 23rd though or I am 'oss the course' (don't ask). I am medically unfit to sit them, my GP is more then happy to write a letter (MS relapse). I recieve a NHS bursary though, the Uni are unhelpful. I need to ensure I still recieve the bursary until I am fit enough to do the resits, how do I go about this? Is it possible?

do you have the original paperwork associated with your bursary? I would expect this to say something about what happens in the case of illness, resits etc.

It's just a sheet of the dates and amounts paid, there's no other info on it.

You need to contact the NHS dept that administer your bursary and find out their relevant policies.

You also need to contact your course administrator and find out their policies relating to resits and illness.

Institutions like these are not allowed to just makes things up as they go along. They will have policies in place and you need to find out whether they are following them correctly.

Also do you have in writing that they will throw you off the course it you are unfit to resit your exams? If not, send them an email saying that this is what you have been told, and that you want to confirm whether this is the case. IME instituions are more likely to follow procedure correctly (and treat people fairly) if there is a paper (email) record of exactly what was said.

I've spoken to the bursary unit, they allow the bursary to be paid for 60 days of sickness but the universitys have to contact them if a student goes over. I have a 'plan' that she gave me, it's unsigned and undated and states that I have to achieve 90 credits from the resits before the exam board meets on the 8th Sep, it states that I will not be allowed to continue if this is not achieved and I will be withdrawn from the programme. It also states that I have to complete all clinical placement time by 26th November.

The university extenuating circumstances policy doesn't discuss what happens when a student is too unwell to sit the resits.

Oh yeah, it also states that I have to adhere to the rota, including the placement at the hospital miles away, I asked for this to be changed as it's an hour and a half each way on top of the shift and the MS had just gone into remission, I was still recovering and very exhausted. I felt unable to do a 55 hour week.

oh dear, this doesn't sound good. Doesn't sound like their 'policies' have taken these situations into account at all.

does the uni have a 'disability unit' or similar that may be able to advise?

Hmm. I went to see them, they are changing the exam/coursework hand in dates to December and giving me a shorter week on placement. She denied she'd called me a 'nightmare student'.