Pastoral care

Pastoral Care

We are concerned for your general welfare as well as your academic achievement and pride ourselves on the approachability of our staff. We aim to make your stay at BPP an enjoyable one.

Personal tutor support

At registration you will be assigned a personal tutor who will be your first point of contact throughout your time at BPP. Your personal tutor is there to offer advice and assistance and will help you to deal with academic and personal difficulties and ensure, where appropriate, that any problems are known to the programme management.

If it is not appropriate to discuss a problem, either academic or personal, with your assigned personal tutor you are free to approach, the Director of Programmes, Programme Leader or any member of the programme team.

Students are expected to take responsibility for their own performance and personal lives during the programme. However, in case of difficulty it is advisable to ask for help from your personal tutor or another appropriate source as soon as possible since most problems will be easier to deal with at any early stage.

Learning support officer

BPP Business School is committed to providing equal educational opportunities for all students. If you have a seen or unseen disability, your learning support officer provides information, advice and support about resources available to you, both within BPP and from other external agencies.

Definition of disability

The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Disclosing a disability

From experience, we know that some students or prospective students are reluctant to disclose a disability because they fear that it might prejudice their application or result in them being treated differently by staff. This is particularly the case for students with mental health difficulties and those with sensitive personal care issues.

You will receive many benefits from disclosure, including entering into a learning contract with BPP , but if you decide that you would prefer not to formally disclose and request that the information concerning your disability remains confidential, it would not be passed on to other staff at BPP.

If you want to discuss the implications of disclosing a disability before making a decision about whether to formally disclose, you can speak to a learning support officer who will be able to advise you in complete confidence to help you to make your decision.

However, if you choose not to disclose a disability, we would be unable to make adjustments to support you.

Disability and your rights

Part IV of the DDA places four duties on educational institutions:

  • to anticipate the needs of disabled students
  • not to treat disabled students less favourably for a reason relating to their disability
  • to make reasonable adjustments for disabled students
  • to provide, where reasonable, any necessary auxiliary aids and services

Please feel free to contact our Learning Support Officer who will be happy to advise you on any learning support issues you may have.

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