Level 5 Students

A meeting to explain the options which will be available at level 6 will be held on:

Tuesday 24^th March at 4.15pm in Lecture Room 2

All level 5 students due to embark on level 6 studies in September 2020 are encouraged to attend.

Debra Reid

The College is holding an Open Morning on

Saturday 22 February from 9.00 – 12.30 noon.  It would be great to have

some student ambassadors around on the day to interact with those who

attend.  Students are great ambassadors and potential students find it

helpful to chat with current students as well as staff.  If you are able to

support the College on this day then please email admissions@spurgeons.ac.uk

ASSIGNMENTS SUBMITTED IN ERROR

Please take every care to submit the correct version of your assignments in the correct place. The College has a Protocol for Wrongly Submitted Assignments which allows for wrongly submitted assignments to be replaced in certain cases. If you think you may have uploaded the wrong assignment, or version of an assignment, you need to inform Joanna Zaplotna (moodle@spurgeons.ac.uk) and Katie Walsh (registry@spurgeons.ac.uk) immediately; they will consult and facilitate this as appropriate. If the tutor has already begun to mark the assignment it will not be possible to remove and replace it. Please bear in mind that if you inform us after 4 p.m. your message may not be picked up until the next working day, while the tutor may have begun to mark the original submission in the meantime.

The Protocol also states that if you submit in error on the day of your deadline, and are permitted to have the submission removed and replaced, the correct essay must be submitted no more than 24 hours after the assignment deadline has passed. Otherwise it will be counted as late.

EXTENSIONS FOR MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES

Students who believe that for good cause (e.g. current or recent illness) they may not be able to submit their work by the set deadline are strongly encouraged to apply for an extension in good time before the deadline, rather than leaving it till the last minute. Although ‘retrospective’ extensions may be granted in cases where the Special Cases Committee recognize that it would have been very difficult to request an extension in time, please remember that extensions are not automatically granted, and the default position if you have not submitted work by the deadline and not been granted an extension is that marks will be deducted for lateness. The Extension Request Form is found on the home page of Moodle.

 For more details on what counts as ‘good cause’ for the granting of an extension see the College’s Extensions Policy

 According to the University of Manchester’s new regulations ( Late Work Regulations – University of Manchester late submissions will have marks automatically deducted by 10 marks per day of lateness. Any late resubmitted work (i.e. work that the Progression and Awards Board has allowed the student to resubmit after failure on the first attempt, and comes in after the deadline set for the resubmission) will automatically receive a mark of zero.

VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY

We are currently recruiting volunteers to assist in our learning support department.  More information can be found in the attached flyer. Please do circulate it to anyone who might be interested.

bmj Essay Prize 2020

The bmj invites entries for our Essay Prize from those serving in, or information for, the leadership and ministry of Baptist churches. We would like an essay of 2500 words on a topic and title of the entrant’s choice that fits into one of the following categories:

·         Baptist History and Principles

·         Biblical Studies

·         Theology or Practical Theology

We are looking for clear writing and argument, and creative engagement with our Baptist life. The prize will be £250.00 and the winning essay (and any highly commended contributions) will be published in bmj.

We particularly encourage entries from those in the early years of their (Baptist) ministries, which includes MiTs and those who are not in accredited or recognised leadership roles.

Closing date: 30 March 2020

Entries should be submitted electronically, double spaced and fully referenced, using endnotes, not footnotes, to the editor at revsal96@aol.com, including details of your name, address, church, role, and stage of ministry.

Judges will be drawn from the Editorial Board of bmj and subject-appropriate academic Baptist colleagues. We reserve the right not to award a prize if the entries are unsuitable, of an inadequate standard for bmj, or do not meet the criteria.

Please share this competition with colleagues to whom it might be of interest.

Contact the editor if you have any queries.

COVER SHEETS – University of Manchester Programmes and Spurgeon’s Award

Following some confusion about the phrase ‘recognized statement of learning need’ on the cover sheets, a revised cover sheet for Levels 4 and 5 can be found as a Word document here and  one for Levels 6 and 7 here. Please use these from now on; you will not be penalised if you have already submitted work with the previous one.

 The new cover sheet clarifies ‘recognized statement of learning need’ with the question Does the College have an assessment from an educational psychologist which was done after the age of 16 which confirms that you are dyslexic and/or dyspraxic?

The reason for this question is that such students (and only such students) are eligible for special assessment arrangements according to Disability Statement and Learning Support Guidelines . If you are not sure whether the College does have such an assessment, or would like to enquire about arranging one, please speak to Sally Marvin, our Learning Support Co-Ordinator (s.marvin@spurgeons.ac.uk)