Employment While Studying

Postgraduate students undertaking full-time study may accept paid teaching, demonstrating and other research work in the University if the time given thereto, including time required for preparation, does not exceed 6 hours per week. (For this purpose one hour of lecturing = three hours of employment, one hour of tutoring = two hours of employment, i.e. you may undertake two lectures or three tutorials per week.) On top of this students may carry out not more than 14 hours per week of other paid employment within the University.  Students will not be employed by the University for more than a total of 20 hours per week. Students employed under these conditions are not eligible for registration as staff candidates.

It is important to realise that 20 hours is not a recommended safe ‘upper limit' of hours worked per week; the capability of each student to manage paid work with their studies varies and it is the student's own individual responsibility to ensure the two are balanced.

At all times it is the student's responsibility to manage their own academic and non-academic workload.  Nevertheless, students should inform their lead supervisor or programme director of any paid or unpaid work they are undertaking in addition to their full-time study.  It is also the student's responsibility to ensure that they abide by the terms of any external provider of funding, for example, a research council.