Group / team work

You learn not only by listening to your teacher and reading around on your own, but also by working together, discussing, brainstorming, problem-solving and producing material you could not produce on your own. 

This is what business and the working world does: it is called 'synergy' – the act of harnessing and multiplying the respective strengths of all team members to achieve something that a number of individuals alone could not. 

We may therefore engage in group or teamwork tasks and projects to enable you to gain such valuable experience.

Some indiciduals have seen this as an opportunity to contribute little or nothing to the joint endeavour and to allow themselves to be 'carried' by the group yet still receive the group/team mark.  This is not acceptable on any basis.

Individuals failing to participate and contribute broadly equally with other members of the group will risk their individual mark being moderated downwards…. even to zero. 

Seeking to be 'carried' by others means you are not earning your own degree and are effectively cheating on your teachers, plagiarising the work of your own colleagues, showing a total disrespect for learning and your university studies and devaluing the qualification for which others are studying to the very best of their ability..