To acquire an extension, you must first download the form:
Politics Assignment Extension Request form (DOCX)
The completed form must be emailed to the Programme in advance of the assignment due date.
Email politics@otago.ac.nz
No retrospective application will be accepted except in the case of serious medical condition, for which a medical certificate is required.
Valid reasons for extension
Extensions could be granted for the following cases:
- Ill-health
- Bereavement
- Personal difficulties of a serious nature
- Provincial or national representative activities
- Job interviews outside Dunedin
Other considerations (such as pressure of other university work) are unlikely to be accepted as legitimate reasons for extensions. Computer problems do not constitute an exceptional circumstance unless it is an officially notified failure of University equipment.
Evidence
Application for an extension must be accompanied by the relevant evidence, such as:
- Medical certificate for ill-health
- Documentary evidence for bereavement
- Written statement in support of your application from another university officer for personal difficulties of a serious nature
- Documentary evidence for provincial or national representative activities
No other evidence will be accepted. The evidence must be submitted to the Programme via email at the same time as, or within three working days after, the application for an extension – either in hard copy or as an email attachment of scanned image.
Approval and length of extension
Applications with evidence does not guarantee the extension will be granted.
The application will be reviewed by the paper co-ordinator who needs to approve the application before the application can be granted.
Normally, the maximum length of an extension is one week, i.e. five working days (except in the case of serious medical conditions).
Work that is more than one week late without an extension may be commented on but will not be graded.