FASS PreDeparture SEP Briefing

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FASS Pre-Departure SEP Briefing
Venue LT9 Day 12 May 2008 Time 10 to 11.30 am
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FASS Helpline

• Email Fashelp_at_nus.edu.sg
• Contact persons Admin Matters
• Ms Shirley Koh
• DID 65 6516 5871
• Ms Ruby
• DID 65 6516 5077
• Academic Advice
• A/P John Richardson
• Email fasrj_at_nus.edu.sg

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Module Mapping/ Study Plan

• Submission to Deans Office
• Keep copies for your own record
• Forms required
• Module mapping form
• Study plan form
• List of SEP Coordinators
• Change of modules to read once abroad
• Equivalency of credits btw Partner Universities
  and NUS
• Double counting of credits

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Restrictions by Partner Universities

• Restrictions on the number of modules read
• Governed by the SEP agreement
• Appeal process
• Write to Faculty
• Accept decision

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Transcripts

• Request for it before you leave
• Contact details of the person in charge of
  transcripts
• Timeline
• Follow up

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Credit Transfer

• Maximum Number of credits transferable
• Rules
• lt60 of the major- graded and factored into
  CAP.(2004 cohort onwards)
• Up to a max of 8 MCs for minor requirements.
• A residency requirement of gt 80 MCs read at NUS
  OR 50 of the required MCs for degree programme
  (higher of the two, based on graded modules
  factored into the CAP). (2004 cohort onwards)
• If the maximum MCs to be excluded from CAP has
  been exceeded, the student will have to make up
  by reading graded modules required for
  graduation.

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Credit Transfer

• NOT AUTOMATIC!!!!!
• Credit Transfer form
• Copy of transcript
• Registration problem due to late arrival of
  transcripts
• Promotion issue (GAPS)
• B vs H track

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Extension of SEP

• Through fashelp_at_nus.edu.sg
• Only if there is space available, no guarantee
• Extension only possible for semester 1 into
  semester 2
• No extension allowed for across academic year

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Leave of Absence/ Withdrawal of SEP

• LOA- automatic update by RO
• Formal process for withdrawal
• Write to A/P John Richardson, Vice-Dean
• - Write to Partner University

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Returning Late to NUS

• What to do?
• Ask to sit for examination early
• Assignments in lieu of examination
• If cannot come back early, how?
• Inform Faculty for official leave of absence
• Inform Department
• Get written approval from module coordinators

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Health and Safety Abroad

• http//www.nus.edu.sg/iro/nus/students/res/safety.
  html
• False sense of security
• Alertness to danger
• Sensible behaviour

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Pre-Departure Checklist

• Access your NUS account from time to time
• Singapore consulates in the various countries
• Ambassador of NUS

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Health and Safety Abroad

• http//www.nus.edu.sg/iro/nus/students/res/safety.
  html
• False sense of security
• Alertness to danger
• Sensible behaviour
• Law-abiding
• MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT (CHAPTER 185) Section 8 A
• Consumption of drug outside Singapore by citizen
  or permanent resident8A. (1) Section 8 (b)
  shall have effect in relation to a person who is
  a citizen or a permanent resident of Singapore
  outside as well as within Singapore where he is
  found as a result of urine tests conducted under
  section 31 (4) (b) to have smoked, administered
  to himself or otherwise consumed a controlled
  drug or a specified drug.

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FAQ

• Faculty SEP
• Questions?

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