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Summer mail for completion of academic year 2021 and start of academic year 2022

Finishing the 2021 – 2022 academic year
Starting the 2022 – 2023 academic year

In the past academic year, you went back and forth (again) between on-campus and on-line education, you did self-tests and you wore face masks. Studying in a pandemic has once again required flexibility and perseverance from all of us. Students felt stressed because of all the uncertainty and sometimes felt despondent because they were unable to build a social life.

That is why we are starting the new academic year on campus (see section 3a). From September we will no longer offer online education (livestreams). And if recordings are being made (web lectures), they will only be made available in the week before the exam.

You study on campus, in the lecture hall, in the study rooms and at your study association. You study together. So make sure to take into account travel time to get to campus, that you do not schedules work on lecture days, that you have a bicycle on time and look for a room closer to campus.

Please read the information below carefully. It concerns important information about the completion of the current academic year, enrolment for the 2022-2023 academic year, education, examinations and several other matters. The entirety of this text can also be found on the STIP website.
 
Finally, if you encounter personal problems or issues that hamper your study progress, please contact the study advisors, or seek assistance and advice at Radboudlife & Care.

We wish you a beautiful summertime and a great start to the new academic year,
Kind regards,


Anna van der Vleuten, Vice Dean of Education

Liesbeth Gulpers, Director of Education

Nijmegen School of Management

Contents

  1. Finishing the 2021-2022 academic year
    a. Binding Study Advice (BSA) for first-year Bachelor students
    b. Applying for Bachelor's diplomas, Pre-Master's certificates and Master's diplomas
  2. Enrolling for the 2022-2023 academic year
    a. Re-enrollment
    b. Enrolling in a Master’s programme
    c. Enrolling as a student during the thesis phase
  3. Education and examinations during the 2022-2023 academic year
    a. Education and examinations on campus
    b. Education and Examination Regulations and the study guide
    c. Academic calendar
    d. Education schedules
    e. Transitional arrangements
    f. Registering for courses, exams and resits
    g. Confirmation of registration
    h. Registering during the academic year
    i. Special exam regulations
  4. Other
    a. Holiday closure
    b. Ordering syllabi and textbooks

Finishing the 2021-2022 academic year

a. Binding Study Advice (BSA) for first-year Bachelor students
Due to the current corona crisis, the Executive Board has decided that this academic year the standard for the Binding Study Advice (BSA) will be adjusted: you will receive your positive advice if you get at least 36 EC in the first year. On 29 July 2022, the BSA letters will be sent to the address at which you are enrolled in Osiris (please check if the address is correct).

Due to the corona crisis, the guidelines for the 2021-2022 academic year are as follows:

  • If you have met the BSA standard of 36 EC, you will receive a positive study advice. This means you may continue your studies.
  • If you received a delayed study advice in the 2020-2021 academic year or enrolled in February of the 2020-2021 academic year, then the standard of 54 EC is in effect to receive a positive advice.
  • If you do not meet the BSA standard, you will receive a negative study advice with a binding rejection, unless there are (or have been) personal circumstances that have prevented you from making the required progress in your studies. Before you receive a definitive negative BSA, you will be given the opportunity to be heard by the First-year Study Advice Committee. How you can request a hearing is explained in the letter. The hearings will be held on 25 and 26 August. Students who do not use this option will receive a definitive negative BSA. If, at your request, you are heard by the First-year Study Advice Committee, you will be informed about the definitive decision by the Committee after the hearing. You will receive a written confirmation as quickly as possible. You can appeal against a negative BSA with the Examination Appeals Board (CBE) within six weeks.

b. Applying for Bachelor's diplomas, Pre-Master's certificates and Master's diplomas
If you have successfully completed all the courses included in a Bachelor's programme, a Pre-Master’s programme or a Master's programme, please request your diploma or certificate as soon as possible through the request form on the STIP website.

If you need an declaration for a subsequent programme or employer earlier, you can request a provisional statement of graduation via the form on the STIP website. You can choose between 'expected completion' and 'completion' (for Bachelor’s, Master’s and Pre-Master’s).

If you still wish to obtain your Bachelor's or Master's degree in this academic year, the final examination and/or thesis must be completed before 1 September 2022. If you do not manage this, you must re-register via Studielink for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Do you want to proceed to a Master’s programme at our faculty and will you be finishing your final bachelor's exam(s) or Bachelor's thesis in July or August? Please register in Studielink for both the Bachelor's and the Master's programme. Enrolment for the Master’s programme can only be activated once the Bachelor’s exam has been fully processed. This may not be until September. Studielink will consider both enrolments as separate programmes. As soon as your Bachelor's diploma has been registered in the system, you will proceed from the Bachelor's programme to the Master's programme. You will have to pay the tuition fee only once.

Do you want to proceed to a Master's programme at our faculty and your last Pre-Master's exams are in July or August? Please register in Studielink for both the Pre-Master's and the Master's programme. Registering for both programmes prevents administrative problems in the transition from Pre-Master's to Master's programme. As soon as your Pre-Master's programme is registered in the system, the registration for the Master's programme will be completed.

Please note: in some cases, you are not automatically registered for the Master's exams when enrolling in a course of the Master’s programme. You should always check this yourself in advance via Osiris.

We no longer offer a flexible cut-off scheme for transferring in the 2022-2023 academic year. If you want to start a Master's programme at our faculty in the next academic year, you must complete your prior education (Bachelor's or Pre-Master's) before 1 September. More information can be found on the STIP website.

Enrolment academic year 2022-2023

a. Re-enrollment
If you plan to continue your study programme at Radboud University, you will need to re-enroll for your study programme via Studielink for the 2022-2023 academic year. Please do this as soon as possible: your enrolment at Radboud University must be finalized by 31 August 2022 (including payment/authorization tuition fees) at the latest, otherwise you will only be enrolled on 1 October 2022. This may have consequences for your enrolment in terms of the educational curriculum, your public transport travel product and study financing. For urgent questions about this, please contact the Student Information Desk.

In Studielink, check whether your registration has been completed. If anything is unclear, please contact the Student Information Desk. If items are still missing on 1 September 2022, access to the Student Portal and Osiris will be blocked. If you can log into the Student Portal and Osiris, but you have problems with course and work group registration, you can contact the Student Information Point (STIP).

b. Enrolling in a Master’s programme
Are you starting a Master's programme at our faculty next academic year? Please register via Studielink for the Master's specialisation you want to follow. Make sure you apply for your Bachelor's diploma or Pre-Master's certificate on time.

We no longer offer a flexible cut-off scheme for transferring in the 2022-2023 academic year. If you want to start a Master's programme at our faculty in the next academic year, you must complete your prior education (Bachelor's or Pre-Master's) before 1 September. More information can be found on the STIP website.

Do you want to proceed to a Master's programme at our faculty and your last Bachelor's exams are in July or August? Then register in Studielink for both the Bachelor's and the Master's programme. Enrolment for the Master’s programme can only be activated once the Bachelor’s exam has been fully processed. This may not be until September. Studielink will consider both enrolments as separate programmes. As soon as your Bachelor's diploma has been registered in the system, you will proceed from the Bachelor's programme to the Master's programme. You will have to pay the tuition fee only once.

Do you want to proceed to a Master's programme at our faculty and your last Pre-Master's exams are in July or August? Please register in Studielink for both the Pre-Master's and the Master’s programme. Registering for both programmes prevents administrative problems in the transition from Pre-Master's to Master's programme. As soon as your Pre-Master's programme is registered in the system, the registration for the Master's programme will be completed.

Please note: in some cases, you are not automatically registered for the Master's exams when enrolling in a course of the Master’s programme. You should always check this yourself in advance via Osiris.

Information about the initial meeting of or introduction to the Master’s programme/specialisation will be published on this page.

c. Enrolment as a student during the thesis phase
If you study, you must be enrolled as a student. This also applies if you are working on your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis and are receiving some form of guidance (an assessment also counts as guidance). Therefore, make sure you are always enrolled as a student. Not being enrolled while working on your thesis can result in a fine.

Education and examinations during the 2022-2023 academic year

a. Education and examinations on campus
The university assumes that in the new academic year educational activities and examinations will take place on campus. It will not be possible to follow on-campus courses at home; it is also not possible to take online examinations at home.

In the past year we have noticed that although we can teach on campus again, only few students attended lectures in the lecture halls. Our campus is the site where interactions between students and teachers occur. This is where you interact with the course materials together, meet fellow students, get to know your teachers and experience what studying at a university entails. Therefore it is important to be on campus as much as possible. Livestreaming lectures or publishing weblectures immediately encourages studying from home. Therefore, on September 1 a new guideline on weblectures and livestreams will be introduced at the NSM faculty.

Lectures are not streamed. All lectures are recorded, seminars are not. The course coordinator will publish the recordings on Brightspace only 1 or 2 weeks before the exam and resit exam, to help you prepare for the exam. For some courses, no recordings will be made, or the recordings are published to all students as soon as possible. Information on how and when weblectures are published is shared through the course manuals. If adapted studying applies to you or you have personal circumstances that hinder your study progress, you get access to the weblectures as soon as possible after the lecture. Such access can be requested through the study advisors, not through course coordinators. Sometimes it takes several days before a recording is available due to the technology we use.

b. Education and Examination Regulations and the study guide
Each programme has its own Education and Examination Regulations (EER). The EER sets out all the rights and obligations of the students registered for the programme for the relevant academic year. The EER pertains to education and examinations and is binding. The EER 2022-2023 is available on the STIP website.

In addition to the EER, each programme has its own study guide. In the study guide, you will find information about the courses, the structure of your programme, electives, minors, your programme’s organisation and more. The digital study guides 2022-2023 from the various programmes are available on the STIP website. We assume that students are familiar with all the information included in the EER and the study guide.

c. Academic calendar
The academic calendar provides a general overview of the blocks, the exam and resit weeks and the education-free periods. You can find this overview on the schedule page of the STIP website.

d. Education schedules
The education schedules for the first semester of 2022-2023 will be available from 1 July 2022 on https://www.ru.nl/vm_syllabus_plus/rooster/. Any changes to the schedule will be reflected on this website within a few minutes. It is important to check your schedule for changes regularly. Educational activities of the new academic year will begin as of Monday 5 September 2022.

e. Transitional arrangements
Educational programmes may have been adjusted prior to the start of a new academic year. These adjustments are elaborated in a transitional arrangement. The arrangements indicate which courses are no longer on offer. Courses may also be moved to another semester or another academic year. The transitional arrangements can be found in the EER. Each programme has its own arrangement that states how you should act. If you have questions about this, please contact your programme’s study advisor.

f. Registering for courses, exams and resits
You can register for courses and associated work groups for the new academic year from Monday 8 August. Make sure that your enrolment as a student is completely finalized (including payment of the tuition fee or authorization issued) when you enroll for courses. Do not wait to register for courses.

The faculty has set deadlines for registering for courses, exams and resits. Use Osiris to register for courses, exams and resits. Click here for instructions on the use of Osiris.

You can register for a course up to ten workdays prior to the starting date of the block in which the course takes place. Registration for the course means automatic registration for the first examination of the course, provided you are registered for the concerning programme. If you have missed the deadline, you will not be able to register for the course and admission is thus no longer possible. Please note: in some cases, when you register for a course, you are not automatically registered for the first examination opportunity. You should always check this yourself in advance.
Exception: for Block 1 of the 2022-2023 academic year, you can register for courses until 5 September at the latest.

For exams and resits, you can register up to five workdays prior to the exam or resit. Please note: there is no ‘post-registration’ option. Students who do not register for an exam or resit on time will not be admitted to the exam location and cannot take part in the exam or resit.

Please note: if you register for a course, you will automatically be registered for that course's first exam opportunity. If you reregister for a course, but have passed the exam already, please deregister in Osiris student for the exam that you have already passed if you are not planning on doing it again.

The deadline of up to five workdays prior to the day of the examination also applies to students with special provisions for exams and resits. If you do not have any special provisions, but think that you are eligible for them, please apply for these well in advance of the new academic year through the student dean. Always check well in advance whether the special provision has been requested and processed in Osiris after consulting with the study advisor.

g. Confirmation of registration
If you have successfully registered for a course, exam or resit in Osiris, you will receive a confirmation message in Osiris Mededelingen and a confirmation email in your student email inbox. Hold onto this confirmation. It is proof that you are registered. If your registration was unsuccessful, you will not receive a confirmation! In that case, repeat the process and check that you have completed all the steps. If it still does not work, please contact the STIP desk before the deadline expires. Once the deadline has passed, there is nothing we can do for you.

h. Registering during the academic year
Keep the deadlines for the courses, exams and resits in mind when you register in the middle of the academic year. For example, if you want to join a course in Block 2 that starts on 7 November, you can register for this course no later than 23 October. Without a valid enrolment in Studielink (including payment of tuition fees), you will not be able to register for courses, exams and/or resits in Osiris and will not be able to take part in the education.

i. Special exam regulations
Hereyou can find information on how to take double examinations and examinations abroad.

Other

a. Holiday closure
The STIP desk can be reached by phone or email during the holiday period via stip@fm.ru.nlor 024-3615925, Monday to Friday between 8.30 am and 4.30 pm.

During the holiday period, the study advisors’ availability is limited. For urgent questions and questions regarding the availability of the study advisors, please contact STIP (stip@fm.ru.nl).

b. Ordering syllabi and textbooks

Syllabi
Syllabi can be ordered and paid for via Lecture Notes Centre. After having completed your order, you will receive a confirmation. As soon as the syllabi have arrived at Post & Print, you will be notified that the syllabus is waiting for you at the Lecture Notes Centre at Erasmusplein 1. This is usually about a week after placing your order. Order your syllabi in time. They are printed only after payment.

Textbooks
Textbooks can be ordered and paid for online (iDEAL) via this website. Students who are member of a study association, will receive a discount on foreign textbooks. You can sign up via the website of our study associations. Students of Economics order their books at Dekker – van der Vegt, this is possible from 1 August. All other programmes offer their books via Studystore, books can be ordered from 11 July.