Academic Registry

Academic Registry provides services related to the management of the student record which underpins many other systems and functions across the institution. This includes:

• student enrolment and registration
• the Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) and HEDD verification
• MyStudentRecord
• student voter registration
• reporting and responding to to local authorities such as: the council, doctors and police
• processing changes in student status.

Academic Registry collaborates with Schools and Professional Service Departments to deliver a timetable that provides an exceptional student experience. This includes:

• producing academic student and colleague timetables
• monitoring timetable data quality
• adherence to the timetabling policies and guidance documentation
• managing non-teaching related room bookings
• managing changes to timetables.

To ensure that all examinations are delivered within regulations Academic Registry provides examinations services that include the:

• Management and delivery of all formal examination periods (half-year, main, and re-sit).
• Management of externally regulated examinations such as those within NTU's Further Education programmes.
• Organisation of Postgraduate Research student visas.
• Facilitation of reasonable adjustments for examinations.
• Development and appointment of approximately 170 invigilation staff.
• Development of the examinations timetable in collaboration with timetabling services.

Academic Registry is responsible for the delivery of the series of Graduation events; both in Summer and Winter. This includes:

• Planning attendance and overall event management.
• Producing the ceremonial brochures.
• Delivering the 'relaxed graduation' experience.
• Management of the awards and titles processes that confers honorary awards.
• Certificate production for both NTU and collaborative partnerships worldwide.

Academic Registry ensures the effective implementation of the University's degree-level (Undergraduate and Postgraduate) student-facing administrative policies. These include:

• The consideration of personal circumstances to enable extensions for assessments.
• Academic appeals, including requests for reconsideration.
• Academic integrity and academic misconduct.
• Student complaints.
• Student code of behaviour.

Academic Registry has overall responsibility of ensuring that the University complies with its obligations as a sponsor of students under the Student Route visa as well as all other students subject to immigration control. This includes:

• Ensuring that the institution holds all relevant documentation on international students.
• Responding to and ensuring compliance with any Home Office policy.
• Reporting Student Route students as eligible for the Graduate Visa.
• Ensuring Student Route students have sufficient academic engagement with their studies.
• Reporting any changes of circumstances to the Home Office.

Academic Registry ensures that all of the programmes that the University provides and corresponding activity are completed within the Student Records system, Banner. This includes:

• Building and maintaining courses in the student records system following approval.
• Providing course information to the Student Loans Company (SLC).
• Ensuring module information is recorded correctly in systems.
• Undertaking regulatory checks on course and module information.
• Inputting and managing assessment information to enable the conferment of grades and degree classification.

Academic Registry provides course administration services for NTU's Further Education and Postgraduate Research provision. This includes:

• student inductions
• attendance monitoring
• course fee amendments
• liaising and reporting to external regulatory bodies.