Our Advice Team offers free, independent and confidential advice to help you understand your rights as a student. 

 

What does that mean?

 

We are independent from the University. This means we can support students with a number of issues, encompassing everything from academic issues to disciplinary procedures. If you need help looking over your landlord’s tenancy agreement, or you need to make an anonymous complaint about one of your coursemates, the Advice Team is the place to go. 

 

Our expert and friendly advisors are non-judgemental and have your best interests at the heart of their service. All of our advice is entirely free from bias and is not influenced by the University.

 

We can help you with: 

• Academic issues
  • Academic appeals
  • Exceptional mitigating circumstances (EMC)
  • Academic malpractice (Plagiarism/collusion etc)
  • Fitness to practise
  • Fitness to study
  • Withdrawing
  • Repeating the year
  • Interrupting studies 
  • Transferring course
  • Criminal conviction/DBS advice
• Housing
  • Disrepair
  • Tenancy deposits
  • Contracts
  • Landlord issues
  • Tenant fees
  • Evictions
  • Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO) licence laws
  • Finding a replacement tenant
  • Tenants’ rights
• Complaints
  • Course complaints
  • Campus complaints
  • Halls complaints
• Disciplinary
  • Bullying
  • Harassment
  • Discrimination
  • Assault
  • Drug offences
  • Threatening behaviour

 

PLEASE NOTE: The Advice Team cannot offer advice on legal issues, court summons, employment law, utility bills. Our finance advice services are also minimal. For advice with finances, we recommend contacting the University’s Money Advice team.

 

The Advice Team is also an anonymous reporting service. If you are the victim of a hate crime, act of sexual misconduct or assault, we encourage you to report the incident to our advisors. 

 

The Advice Team office is located on the first floor of The Hub, over the bridge.

 

If you have any questions about our Advice Team, get in touch via email: suadvice@edgehill.ac.uk.

 

Scroll down to book an appointment with our Advice Team.

 

We provide in-person, telephone, and video call appointments.