All tertiary/higher education institutions establish certain requirements which must be met before a degree is granted. These requirements concern programmes, courses, grade point average, and other requirements. Deans of Faculties, Heads of Departments, Dean of Students and counsellors will help a student meet these requirements, but the student is responsible for fulfilling them. Upon the completion of the required course work, personnel of the Institute will determine if the student is eligible to receive a degree. If the requirements have not been met, the degree will be withheld until such time as they have been met. It is important for each student to become acquainted with the degree requirements and to remain informed.

Salt University students, during the course of their training, shall develop certain general skills in order that they become competent professionals. The components of the curriculum which shall be integrated to produce competent professionals are:

Personal Development Studies

They cover general education an individual requires as a citizen to be able to function purposefully and effectively within the society. Personal Development Studies include African Studies, Study and Communication Skills, Computer Literacy, Critical Thinking and Practical Reasoning and Academic Writing.

General Studies

The General Studies are to broaden the background and outlook of our students. They include Introduction to Psychology Catholic Social Teachings Research Methods and Statistics.

Subject Studies

These are the subject [programme] areas of a student’s interest or choice. They form the basis of specialist professional training of the prospective professional.

Academic Rules & Regulations

Attendance at Lectures

Attendance at lectures is regarded as an obligation as well as a privilege and all students are expected to attend all lectures regularly and punctually. Failure to do so will jeopardise a student’s scholastic standing.
  • A student shall submit excuses for absences to the Lecturer, copied to the Head of Department, within three days after he/she returns to lectures.The only excuses that will be accepted by the Institute are those signed by doctors and appropriate officials of the Institute.
  • Every student shall be required to sign an attendance book at every lecture.
  • A student shall be expected to attend lectures, tutorials, practicals and other activities prescribed for the course for which he/she has registered, and to execute all assignments given, as approved by the Institute.
  • In order to be eligible for examination in a particular taught course, the student shall have presented himself/herself for not less than 75% of the total number of hours for the course.
  • A student who absents himself/herself for a cumulative period of 21 days from lectures, tutorials, and other activities prescribed for any course in any semester shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the course. Such a student shall not be permitted to write the end of semester examinations in the course.
  • A student who absents himself/herself for a cumulative period of between 10 and 20 days shall be cautioned by the Head of Department.

Assessment

Assessment of a student’s performance shall be by a combination of continuous assessment and end-of-semester examinations. The weightings for the two modes of assessment are as follows:
  • Continuous Assessment: class assignments, quizzes and tests [at least two entries per semester are required] = 40%
  • End-of-Semester Examination = 60%
  • Students who do not earn a continuous assessment mark do not qualify to take part in the end-of-semester examinations. Students who trail in [retake] failed course(s) shall earn new or fresh continuous assessment marks for the re-registered course(s). Plagiarism: Plagiarism is presenting someone’s work as if it were the result of one’s own study and investigation. An assignment will be considered to be plagiarised when:
  • A written assignment/essay, project report or another work is copied in whole or in part from a source and presented as one’s own, without due acknowledgement.
  • Parts of a work, including words, ideas, graphical images, or data are taken from another source without acknowledging the source or the original writer. Submitting someone’s work/essay by an individual as his/her own. Any student found guilty of plagiarism will have the work cancelled and awarded a failing grade. In addition, the student may be suspended for a specified period of time, depending on the gravity of the plagiarism.

    • End of Semester Exams

  • A student who does not earn a continuous assessment mark does not qualify to take part in the end-of-semester examinations.
  • External moderation shall be required for the third and final years of every programme. Each head of department shall be responsible for the moderation of examination questions and marking for all other semesters.
  • Registration for any examination shall require the endorsement of the registration list by the Head of Department to effect that the candidate has pursued satisfactorily the approved course(s) of study in each subject being offered over the prescribed period.
  • A candidate’s registration shall not be valid unless it is so endorsed.
  • In the event of the withholding of an endorsement, the Head of Department shall request the appropriate Departmental Board to confirm the action taken.
  • External moderation shall be required for the third and final years of every programme.
  • Each Head of Department shall be responsible for the moderation of examination questions for all other semesters.