Attendance and Absence Warnings

• Mandatory attendance:

• The College requires students to attend all theoretical and practical lectures, research sessions, and the examinations of the courses they are studying.

• Role of the course instructor:

• The course instructor is responsible for maintaining the attendance and absence record of the students enrolled in the course, verifying their absence excuses where applicable, and preparing and issuing absence warnings after obtaining the approval of the academic department head and the Dean.

• If a student's absence in a course reaches 10% of the total actual hours allocated to it:

• The course instructor issues the student a warning, unless the instructor verifies that a compelling excuse, approved by the academic department head, prevented the student's attendance.

• If a student's absence without an accepted excuse reaches 17% of the total actual hours allocated to the course:

• The course instructor issues the student a final warning, approved by the department head and the Dean.

• If a student's absence in a course reaches 25% and there was no accepted excuse:

• The student is barred from sitting the course examinations in the semester, and his failure in the course is recorded in his academic record. If the student's absence in the course reaches 25% and there was an accepted excuse, approved by the Department Council and the Dean, the student is barred from sitting the course examinations in the semester, and the designation "(Withdrawn)" is recorded in his academic record against this course.

• If a student's failure or withdrawal from the course concerned by the absence is confirmed:

• The College Council notifies the Student Affairs Department of these confirmations so that the appropriate decisions are recorded in the student's academic record.

• Absences with an excuse and absences without an excuse are both counted when calculating the maximum permissible absence, as stated in the preceding clause.