How To Use This Guide

The information provided in this part of the website constitutes Selwyn College's Student Guide. This document and the Accommodation Handbook, pull together the information you need to know about how the University and College work. Particularly useful for new students, the documents are important throughout any student's time at Selwyn. Please familiarise yourself with the contents at the start of your course and bookmark it so that you can easily find information again when you need it.

We try to keep rules and regulations to a necessary minimum. Fellows and staff are accommodating and helpful, especially if approached in the right way. However, any institution needs to have some rules if it is to function smoothly. In a community where many people living at close quarters, often working under pressure, rules help everyone to co-exist. If rules are contravened, ignorance of the Guide's contents will not be taken as a legitimate excuse. 

The Guide is organised to help you find as easily as possible the information you will need. These include how to find out about central University structures; information about student life; the way we teach and learn; welfare and support networks; financial matters; and guidance on facilities, discipline, or health and wellbeing. Students new to Selwyn should especially read carefully through the sections on ‘Your Work’ and ‘Support and Advice’. 

The Guide is updated as new information becomes available or as policy changes. As a live, working document it is not static. This means that it is possible to respond if there are any errors or omissions in this guide. If so, or if you have suggestions, please contact me.

Dr Mike Sewell,  Senior Tutor