On Tuesday 17 March 2026, HRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of Health Sciences University (HSU), attended the inauguration of the Health Sciences University Chancellor’s Fund.
Academic Committees 
Admissions
- Recruitment, Selection and Admission Policy Taught Awards
- Recruitment Selection and Admissions – Appeals and Complaints: Policy and Procedure
- Recruitment Selection Admissions Regulations
- Admission and Support for students under the age of 18: Policy
- Immigration Sponsorship for Students Policy and Procedure
Assessment Regulations and Assessment Boards
Course Design, Development and Management
Learning and Teaching (inc. Assessment Design)
- Access to Examination Scripts Policy (Taught Students)
- Group work policy
- Marking and Moderation Policy and Procedure
- Setting and Scrutiny of Assessments Policy
- Reasonable Adjustments Policy
- Reasonable Adjustments Procedure
- Assessment Feedback Policy
- Generic assessment criteria policy
- External Examiner Handbook
- External Examining
Placement and Practice Learning
Research
- Research Misconduct Policy and Procedure
- Research Ethics Policy
- Research Governance and Integrity Policy
- PGR Student Handbook
- Research Data Management Policy and Procedures
- External Approvals and External Ethics Review Policy and Procedures
- Research Sponsorship Policy and Procedures
- Academic Appeals Policy and Procedures (Postgraduate Research Degree Students)
Student Governance
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- Student Disciplinary Policy and Procedures
- Academic Integrity and Academic Misconduct policy
- Student Complaints policy
- Student Complaints procedure
- Student Fitness to Practise Policy and Procedures
- Sexual Misconduct Policy
- Sexual Misconduct Procedure
- Copyright policy
- Support to Study Policy
- Support to Study Procedure
- Harassment Policy and Procedures for Students
We are delighted to announce that Jordan Cummins has been appointed Chair of the Health Sciences University's Board of Governors. Jordan will join the Board following the end of Jeni Bremner's tenure as Chair in March.
A pioneering community dance programme in Dorset is enabling older adults living with chronic lower back pain to move more, fear less and reconnect socially.
On Thursday 5th 2026, March Health Sciences University was delighted to host a vibrant evening celebration of International Women’s Day 2026 for the Dorset Police Women’s Inspire Network (WIN) and the Women’s Network at University Hospitals Dorset.
For Health Sciences University, training the next generation of highly skilled and compassionate speech and language therapists has never been more pressing, as the UK Government publishes its long-awaited Schools White Paper, Every Child Achieving and Thriving, which outlines “a vision for education for the next decade”.
Health Sciences University (HSU) and the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (CICM) have confirmed that they have begun early exploratory discussions about the possibility of a future merger. HSU and CICM already have an established academic relationship, with HSU currently validating CICM’s degree provision. The discussions now underway are separate from, and additional to, this existing validation arrangement.
