Student regulations and policies

The regulations below apply to all DMU students and serve to outline our expectations of you, as well as what you can expect from us.

Regulation PDFs are grouped by category and listed in alphabetical order.

These are general rules and regulations that apply to all DMU students, covering topics including student discipline, payment of fees, examination regulations, extenuating circumstances, academic appeals, and our health and safety policy. We recommend that you familiarise yourself with them and consider bookmarking this page in case you need to reference it later.

For a copy of our Academic Regulations, please visit the Department of Academic Quality.

General Regulations 2024/25

The following chapters apply to the current academic year. For previous version of the General Regulations, see the archive below.
These are regulations governing the university's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, covering assessment and reassessment, progression, and calculation of final award.

Our Academic Regulations are maintained and overseen by Academic Quality Services and can be found on their page.

Queries relating to the academic regulations should be directed to Academic Quality Services.

Research Degree Regulations
- Health & Life Sciences Fitness to Practice Procedure
- Intellectual Property Policy for Non-Research Students
- Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy
- Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy Appendix 1
- Policy on Dignity and Respect
- No Space for Hate Policy: No Space for Hate is our commitment to challenge inappropriate behaviours and provide practical support to students who are victims, survivors or witnesses of hate or harassment.
  Find out more on our No Space for Hate web pages.
- Student Misconduct and Disciplinary Policy
- Student Misconduct and Disciplinary Policy Appendix 1
- Sexual Misconduct Policy
- Unacceptable Behaviour Policy
- Smoking on Campus policy
- Health and Safety Policy
- Healthy DMU Policy
- Policy for Managing Students who are Under 18 on Enrolment
- Policy on Protecting and Supporting Trans, Gender Fluid and Non-binary Staff and Students
- Policy on Student Names
- Smoking at Work Policy: This policy applies to all staff, students, visitors, contractors and members of the public on campus.
- Safeguarding Policy
- Student Disability Policy
- Student Pregnancy, Maternity, Second Carer (Paternity) or Adoption Policy
- Communications with Third Parties Policy
- Data Protection Policy: This document describes how we process your personal data, and our legal basis for doing so.
- DMU Social Media Community Guidelines
- Student Social Media Policy
- Whistleblowing Policy for Students