Resolutions to address student challenges during semester 1 of 2019

The following resolutions were approved by the Unisa Management Committee to address the challenges experienced by students during semester 1 of 2019:

• Registrations will be activated for qualifying NSFAS students who were temporarily registered.
• Students are permitted to submit assignments until 14 April 2019.
• The examination period will commence on 2 May 2019 and conclude on 20 June 2019.
• The final date for the release of the May / June 2019 examination results will be 27 July 2019.
• The late release of results will impact on the second semester registration period, which will now continue until 10 August 2019.
• The special venue-based supplementary examinations for final-year students which was scheduled to take place between 5 and 30 August 2019 will now be replaced by non-venue based assessment, which will be processed during August 2019. 
• Those students in their final year who are left with 2 modules and who can complete a qualification will be identified in terms of the current criteria for the granting of FI Concessions. 
• Those students who were registered after 8 February 2019, and who write the May / June 2019 examination and fail, will be given an automatic supplementary examination in October / November 2019. This opportunity will be free of charge to the said students.