GENERAL REGULATIONS AND REGULATIONS

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PREAMBLE

• The regulations that appear in this Prospectus are based on the University of Namibia Act, no 18 of 1992, and the statutes and regulations approved by Council and Senate in terms of the Act and Statutes.

• These general regulations apply to all faculties unless expressly excluded by special regulations of a faculty.

• If the special regulations of a faculty prescribe special requirements for the study of a module, such regulations also apply where the said module is offered in another faculty, unless the special regulations of the latter faculty prescribe otherwise.

• Senate reserves the right to alter, amend, cancel or replace any of the academic regulations, and shall be the final authority for the interpretation of these regulations.

• Subject to 7.1.4, no student who has started a programme of study following one set of regulations shall be adversely affected by a regulation subsequently adopted.

• Senate has the power to exempt any student from any of the academic regulations.

• Plagiarism:  Plagiarism is intellectual theft in the sense that another person’s creative work, composition, and ideas are appropriated by another person without permission and without proper acknowledgement of the original source. It constitutes serious academic fraud.  Furthermore, it involves among other:

                   (a)   Copying without quotation marks or paraphrase without acknowledgement from someone else’s writing;

                   (b)   Using someone else’s facts or ideas without acknowledging them;

                   (c)    Submitting assignments for one course or module that the student had submitted for credit for another

                            course or module without the express permission of both lecturers.

The University of Namibia has strict rules to enforce the Policy. The Policy on Plagiarism is available within the respective Faculties/ Centres / Library and on the UNAM Website: http://www.unam.na

• In these regulations the following terms shall be used as indicated:

(a) Admission

approval to report for registration as a student of the University;

(b) Full-time Student

A full-time student refers to a student that studies full-time, implying that such a student is not involved in work and / or other responsibilities to such an extent that will enable the student to attend his / her studies full-time.

(c) Pat-time Student

A part-time student refers to a student that studies part-time, implying that such a student is also involved in work and / or other responsibilities and is thus not able to attend to his/her studies full-time.

(d) Study Programme/Curriculum

a complete plan of study, lasting over a specified period, which leads to a degree, diploma or certificate qualification;

(e) Academic year

that portion of a calendar year approved by the Calendar and Timetable Committee for the academic activities of the University;

(f) Semester

one half of the academic year (normally fourteen teaching weeks);

(g) Subject

a discipline or field of study offered by a department in which a student may take a major or other component of his/her programme;

(h) Module

a separately examinable component, normally extending over one semester at four periods per week or alternatively two periods per week extending over two semesters;

(i) Half Module

a separately examinable component, normally extending over one semester at two periods per week;           

(j) Double Module

a module that extends over one academic year at four periods per week and terminates in an examination at the end of the year.  (For the composition of a curriculum a double module is regarded as equal to two modules);

(k) Paper

each module, for the purposes of examination, shall be divided into one or more components called papers. A paper shall normally be a formal written, oral or practical examination of 1½  to 3 hours duration;

(l) Syllabus

the contents of a module;

(m) Continuous Assessment Mark (CAM)

the accumulated numerical value, expressed as a percentage, arrived at when a student’s academic performance is assessed by testing and/or other valid means of evaluation at intervals or on a continuous basis, during the course of a semester in the case of modules, or during the course of the year in the case of double modules;

(n) Examination

the written and/or oral evaluation, which may include practical work, conducted at the end of a semester or at the end of the academic year; it includes re-evaluation;

(o) Examination Mark

the mark obtained in an examination;

(p) Final Mark

a combination of the continuous assessment mark and examination mark.