Student Cases
All postgraduate students case requests should be submitted via email to Pgcases@tcd.ie
Normally student case requests must be submitted by the students Course Director / Course Co-Ordinator / Supervisor .
In exceptional cases the Dean may consider requests originating elsewhere.
Please ensure that your email includes student name, student number, current registration status of student, course title, SITS course code, student’s standing on the course in addition to your request.
Copies of any supporting documentation that may be available should also be sent to Pgcases@tcd.ie
All enquiries sent via email to the Pgcases@tcd.ie email address regarding postgraduate student cases will be responded to and are treated in the strictest confidence.
Withdrawal
Should a postgraduate student wish to withdraw from College s/he must notify the Dean of Graduate Studies and the Supervisor/Course Co-ordinator in writing. Graduate students who are seeking to withdraw from their course of study are urged to remain mindful of their tuition fee liability. Students who withdraw on or before 1 September annually will receive full annual tuition fee refund (where full annual tuition fee has been paid). Students who withdraw on or before 31 January annually will receive half annual tuition fee refund (where full annual tuition fee has been paid). Students who withdraw from their course of study after 31 January annually are liable for the full annual tuition fee for the year.
Please contact pgcases@tcd.ie
Off-books
Normally, graduate students must pursue their course continuously. In exceptional circumstances the Dean of Graduate Studies, after consultation with the graduate student's Supervisor, appropriate Course Co-ordinators/Directors may permit graduate students to go "off-books" (i.e. off-register) where to do so in the judgement of the Dean of Graduate Studies is in the best interests of the graduate student.
Application to go off-books should be made to the Dean of Graduate Studies via the student's Supervisor/Course Co-ordinator or the relevant Director of Teaching and Learning (Postgraduate).
Please note: The student may not apply directly to the Dean of Graduate Studies.
During the period of interruption graduate students are not required to pay fees. Consequently they will not have a student card during this period and will not have access rights to the college library or other college facilities.
"Off-books" permission is given for a definite period, and a re-admission request from the student to the Dean of Graduate Studies is required prior to re-registration.
Please revert to the College Calendar section on Attedance and "Off books" which can be found here for further information
Academic Appeals
The Academic Appeals Committee for Graduate Students will consider appeals arising out of examinations, and other academic circumstances, from registered graduate students where the graduate student's case (i) is not adequately covered by the ordinary regulations of the College, or (ii) is based on a claim that the regulations of the College were not properly applied in the applicant's case, or (iii) represents an ad misericordiam appeal.
An appeal other than an ad misericordiam cannot be made against the normal application of College academic regulations approved by the University Council. Appellants should first have pursued the course of action most appropriate to their case. The Academic Appeals Committee will consider appeals concerning events occurring more than 4 months previously only in the most exceptional circumstances.
For more detailed information, please consult the College Calendar Part III