Face-to-face teaching will be moved online for five days between 10 and 16 December 2020. All College students will be expected to access all their lessons as timetabled online from 10 December.

The campus will then be closed to College students until the New Year.

We prepared for many eventualities before welcoming students back this year, including taking all teaching online whilst ensuring our students receive a high-quality education.

In the meantime, up to and including 9 December, please continue to attend your face-to-face lectures on campus.  This government plan is being put in place to ensure students can safely travel home for Christmas and not because of any concerns for your safety on campus.

Residential students currently at home due to parents deciding to take them home for the current lockdown period are expected to return on 3 December to take part in the remainder of their face-to-face lessons.

Please remember that Sport students will be undertaking part A of their formal January exam (research task) that contributes towards the final grade up until 9 December and as such need to remain on campus (unless ill or isolating). 

Why has the College taken this decision?  

Our decision is based on our large residential population; many of you will be aware we are the largest residential college in the country, operating alongside a university on the same campus.

This move therefore allows residential students to have a window of opportunity to travel to an alternative household (their family home) after this current lockdown period, rather than be in isolation on campus over the Christmas period.

We have applied this decision to all students, including non-residential to ensure parity of experience for all.

The last date students are required on campus (9 December) ensures enough time for students to complete self-isolation before Christmas, should that be required.

Our planning is based upon current national government advice; should this advice change and prevent us from following elements of this plan, we will communicate any alternatives as soon as possible.

All residential College students will be expected to vacate their rooms at the end of Wednesday 9 December from 3.30pm (earlier if Wednesday is their study day) or on Thursday 10 December.

Students will not be able to remain in their rooms after this date. The only exception is for residential students who have been instructed to self-isolate in their accommodation. If for any reason you are not able to travel home on 9 or 10 December, please email accommodation@hartpury.ac.uk as soon as possible.

Please be reminded that everyone must follow the national restrictions in place from 5 November until 2 December 2020, meaning that students must stay in their current accommodation and not leave their term time address, except for specific purposes, including leaving home for education, during this period.

Residential students currently at home due to parents deciding to take them home for the current lockdown period are expected to return on 3 December.

We expect to have a testing centre operating on campus, ready to start testing from Tuesday 1 December up until Wednesday 9 December.

The test centre would enable us to offer free COVID-19 tests to residential students. ‘Residential’ refers to any students who live away from home, either on the Hartpury campus or in Hartpury managed or private rented accommodation, and will be returning home for Christmas.

The voluntary tests are designed only for students with NO symptoms, so that those students can confidently return to their families for the holidays, or self-isolate in their accommodation before travelling if necessary.

We applied to become one of the smaller institutions offering a test centre because we felt it important to offer you the ability to make informed choices.  However, as I am sure you can appreciate, developing and managing a test centre at short notice is a complex and large-scale operation, involving many of our staff departments.

We will communicate again with all relevant (residential) students by email to provide more information about the test and details of how you can book a test.  

We strongly suggest UK residential students do not make plans to travel home until the testing booking system is released, so that if you decide to take a test you can ensure your travel is in-line with your test date. 

College students from overseas should contact the International Manager, via international@hartpury.ac.uk at the earliest opportunity to discuss their arrangements.

Students considering returning to their home country for the winter break must not travel until after this national lockdown (2 December) AND until they have completed any remaining timetabled face-to-face teaching. You must also be able to access your online teaching from 10 December. You should adhere to Public Health England advice whilst in England to ensure you are travelling safely. You must not travel if you have symptoms of COVID-19 or are part of a household group that is self-isolating.

You must consider whether you have any face-to-face sessions in January and ensure you allow enough time for any required self-isolation upon your return to the UK, prior to these.

You should also make sure you understand the testing and self-isolation requirements of your destination country well in advance of your planned travel.  You are likely to need to arrange a private test before you are permitted to travel, dependant on your destination. Please note, any tests required for overseas travel must be organised by the individual student and are separate to any mass NHS testing which may take place on campus.

This move is essential to allow residential students to take advantage of the ‘travel window’ opportunity to spend Christmas with their families, rather than in isolation on campus.

As such, we will not be offering refunds on accommodation for the week that you return home before Christmas, in-line with your accommodation license.

However, it is also worth mentioning at this stage, that given the evolving government guidance and possible changes to national exam dates, we may need to make amendments to the term dates / extend the end of the academic year. If that were the case, no additional charges for accommodation would be requested.

Please note, you will be able to leave your belongings in your room throughout the Christmas break, for your convenience.

At this point, we are preparing for you to return to Hartpury for the start of the new term as planned, continuing with the mixed-delivery model.

We will of course be monitoring government advice and students will need to follow government guidance regarding changing households at that time.  Further guidance is expected from government soon, and we will keep you informed via email.

Our priority is to maintain the safety of our students and staff while supporting academic progression and ensuring academic integrity.

We launched the College academic year in September with lessons delivered via a mixed model of face-to-face teaching on campus, combined with timetabled online lessons and activities.

Hartpury College students, have been provided with a full and robust weekly timetable of lessons, activities and independent learning. We are absolutely committed to delivering the highest-quality learning and student experience, enabling you to engage with your course effectively, in all eventualities.

To reduce the number of students on campus at any one time and allow for social distancing, you will receive face-to-face teaching on campus on approximately two to three days each week, alternating. Over the course of any two-week period, you will receive at least one face-to-face session for every module You will be expected to engage online on the remaining days, and our aim is for this to include live sessions, which will also be recorded for you to view.

We will also be making adjustments to class sizes in line with Government guidance for educational establishments.

The situation will be reviewed at October half-term, with the objective being to transition fully to face-to-face delivery as soon as Government guidelines allow.  However, we are mindful that this mixed model of online and face-to-face delivery may need to be in place for the full 2020/21 academic year.

We are confident that students will still be able to engage with their programme of study effectively, no matter what the circumstances, and students and parents should note that there will be no reduction or discount on transport, accommodation or, where applicable, tuition fees.

The fees for Hartpury managed accommodation and transport and, where applicable, for tuition, will remain as published for the 2020/21 academic year.  Students and parents should note that there will be no refunds or reductions available due to any potential changes in the mode of academic delivery.

As a Hartpury College student, you will receive a full and robust weekly timetable of lessons, activities and independent learning. We are confident that you will still be able to engage with your programme of study effectively, no matter what the circumstances.

To reduce the number of students on campus at any one time, you are initially likely to receive face-to-face teaching on campus on approximately two to three days each week. Over the course of any 2-week period, you will receive at least one face to face session for every module. You will be expected to engage online on the remaining days. Further details on how this will work will follow.

The situation will be reviewed at October half-term, with the objective being to transition fully to face-to-face delivery as soon as Government guidelines allow.  However, we are mindful that this mixed model of online and face-to-face delivery may need to be in place for the full 2020/21 academic year.

Hartpury College revised term dates

Information from the Department for Education on how Access to HE students will be assessed or continue their learning can be found here.

All Hartpury Access to HE students will have also received communications from the College with regards to the plans for their continued studies.

Yes – activities are running across the numerous sports disciplines within the sports academy and within the student union, to keep everyone active.

Sporting activities are held in-line with government advice and public health guidance; the well-being of our students and staff is of paramount importance.

We continue to provide a positive student experience given the changing restrictions in a creative and engaging way. Adaptations are made when they are safe to do so and in-line with government advice and national governing bodies’ guidance.

Sports academies are continuing to provide the best level of support to the student-athletes and training continues to operate at Hartpury following up-to-date guidance. This support has taken the form of a blended approach of face-to-face and online sessions to ensure continual development of our student-athletes.

The government has introduced a national ‘student travel window’ between 3 and 9 December. A link to the full guidance and other useful information from the Office for Students can be found via the link here.   

The travel window is being introduced so that students living away from home can return home safely for Christmas, after this current lockdown period, if they choose to do so.

The government has selected these dates to ensure that the last date students are required on campus allows enough time for students to complete self-isolation before Christmas, should that be necessary.

To support all students being able to travel home in the window, the government has also stipulated that face-to-face delivery for the winter term should finish at every university and all teaching moved online by 9 December at the very latest.

After 4 December, all Hartpury University student timetabled sessions will be online (except for a small amount of postgraduate delivery prior to the 9 December). 

We prepared for many eventualities before welcoming students back this year, including taking all teaching online whilst ensuring our students receive a high-quality education.    

Essential face-to-face sessions will be rescheduled to take place by 4 December (weeks 8, 9 and 10). Students should check MYHARTPURY for updates. 

Assessments which were due to be held in weeks 11 and 12 are likely to be moved into the January assessment period, but please check individual Moodle pages and with your module teams for confirmation. 

In the meantime, please continue to attend your face-to-face lectures on campus.  This government plan is being put in place to ensure students can safely travel home for Christmas and not because of any concerns for your safety on campus.   

We expect to have a testing centre operating on campus, ready to start testing from Tuesday 1 December up until Wednesday 9 December.

The test centre would enable us to offer free COVID-19 tests to residential students. ‘Residential’ refers to any students who live away from home, either on the Hartpury campus or in Hartpury managed or private rented accommodation, and will be returning home for Christmas.

The voluntary tests are designed only for students with NO symptoms, so that those students can confidently return to their families for the holidays, or self-isolate in their accommodation before travelling if necessary.

We applied to become one of the smaller institutions offering a test centre because we felt it important to offer you the ability to make informed choices.  However, as I am sure you can appreciate, developing and managing a test centre at short notice is a complex and large-scale operation, involving many of our staff departments.

We will communicate again with all relevant (residential) students by email to provide more information about the test and details of how you can book a test.  

We strongly suggest UK residential students do not make plans to travel home until the testing booking system is released, so that if you decide to take a test you can ensure your travel is in-line with your test date. 

Students from overseas can make plans now to return home for the winter break, should they choose to do so.  You must not travel until after this national lockdown (2 December) AND until you have completed any remaining scheduled face-to-face teaching.

You should adhere to Public Health England advice whilst in England to ensure you are travelling safely. You must not travel if you have symptoms of COVID-19 or are part of a household group that is self-isolating.

You must consider whether you have any face-to-face university assessments in January and ensure you allow enough time for any required self-isolation upon your return to the UK, prior to these assessments.

You should also make sure you understand the testing and self-isolation requirements of your destination country well in advance of your planned travel.  You are likely to need to arrange a private test before you are permitted to travel, dependant on your destination. Please note, any tests required for overseas travel must be organised by the individual student and are separate to any mass NHS testing which may take place on campus.   Please inform our International Manager of your plans for the Christmas break via international@hartpury.ac.uk, whether you are intending on travelling home or staying on campus, so that we are aware and can support you.

Yes. The campus (including accommodation) will remain open to Hartpury University students who are not returning home during the Christmas period, returning later in December, or those who wish to travel in daily to use the facilities.

Any students who remain at Hartpury after 9 December will run the risk of having to undertake a period of isolation of up to 14 days at Hartpury, if they contracted COVID-19 and would therefore be at risk of not being able to travel home for the end of term break.  It is important you understand this, in order to make an informed choice based on your individual circumstances.

Yes. We appreciate that some of you may not be able to return home for various reasons or may simply choose to stay onsite.  If you are intending on staying in Hartpury accommodation, please do email accommodation@hartpury.ac.uk so that we are aware of your plans. 

We will not be offering refunds on accommodation for the two-week period that you may choose to return home before Christmas, in line with your university accommodation agreement.

As in previous years, the campus (including accommodation) will remain open to university students who prefer to stay for all or part of the Christmas period, those who will be returning later in December, and those who wish to travel in daily to utilise the facilities.

At this point, we are preparing for you to return to Hartpury for the start of the new term. As planned, your assessment will be largely being online, with key assessments face-to-face where appropriate.

We will of course be monitoring government advice and students will need to follow government guidance regarding changing households at that time.  Further guidance is expected from government soon, and we will keep you informed.

We are currently teaching Hartpury University students via a mixed-delivery model.

Our aim is to teach physically face-to-face, whilst adhering to government distancing guidelines, as much as is possible, balanced with online lectures where necessary.

You will have a weekly timetable which includes some face-to-face delivery for your smaller seminars, tutorials and practical sessions. Alongside these, your larger lectures will initially be delivered online.

Many of your online sessions will be delivered live by your lecturer via MS Teams, enabling you to ask questions and interact with the session and with your fellow students. These sessions will also be recorded for you to revisit afterwards.

Our priority is to maintain the safety of our students and staff while supporting academic progression and ensuring academic integrity. We will continue to review the situation with the objective being to transition fully to face-to-face delivery as soon as government guidelines allow.  However, we are mindful that this mixed model of online and face-to-face delivery may need to be in place for much of the academic year.

We are absolutely committed to delivering the highest-quality learning and student experience, enabling you to engage with your course effectively, in all eventualities.

We will continue to update our future students via email and this website.  Please make sure the email address we hold for you is up to date.

Students will be charged the full published tuition fees for 2020 entry.

We are absolutely committed to delivering the highest-quality learning and student experience and will ensure that your degree is delivered in line with national expectations, quality and standards.

It is likely that large scale lectures will not be delivered face-to-face until government guidance allows, and a significant element of many programmes will be delivered online during the 2020/21 academic year.

Students’ contact days may also be reduced to ease the numbers on campus at any one time.

Students’ weekly timetables will therefore be a mixed model of online lectures and physical delivery.  More information can be found in the FAQ: ‘Will I be taught online or face to face from September 2020’ (current students)?

We are confident that students will still be able to engage with their programme of study effectively, no matter what the circumstances, and there will be no reduction or discount on tuition fees or accommodation fees.

Hartpury University revised term dates

Yes – activities are running across the numerous sports disciplines within the sports academy and within the student union, to keep everyone active.

Sporting activities are held in-line with government advice and public health guidance; the well-being of our students and staff is of paramount importance.

We continue to provide a positive student experience given the changing restrictions in a creative and engaging way. Adaptations are made when they are safe to do so and in-line with government advice and national governing bodies’ guidance.

Sports academies are continuing to provide the best level of support to the student-athletes and training continues to operate at Hartpury following up-to-date guidance. This support has taken the form of a blended approach of face-to-face and online sessions to ensure continual development of our student-athletes.

Our hope is very much that Hartpury can return as close to normal as soon as possible. As a result, we are developing the timetable to contain as much face to face delivery as is safe to do so. From the specified date in October, we would therefore hope as many returners as possible are in attendance at Hartpury for those face to face sessions. Additionally as the restrictions in England reduce, the amount of online delivery will reduce further. Our recommendation would be that while we do appreciate that for some students this will not be possible (e.g. those with underlying medical conditions who are required to remain in isolation) and will be supporting them via live and recorded sessions, students are able to attend from the 26^th of October. Should an individual student feel unable to do this, they should have a chat with their programme manager to discuss options.