Years’ long battle for students’ interests has finally paid off!

 

Having to wait several long months before being allowed to sit a retake or sick exam is now ancient history! The authorisation to schedule the autumn semester’s sick exams for May has now been abolished and taken out of the university’s rules, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Student Council and the university council’s student representatives!

 

This means that, starting next academic year, all retake and sick exams for the autumn semester will be sat in December and January.

 

This was done through changing the university’s rules at a university council meeting last February 2.

 

This change was based on a proposal drafted by Rebekka Karlsdóttir, then a Student Council member and currently the president of the Student Council, and Ingvar Þóroddsson, and proposed to the Student Council on October 20 2021. The proposal suggested that the Student Council and the university council’s student representatives unite their efforts to bring about a change in the university’s rules so that they no longer allow the autumn semester’s sick exams to be sat in May. The then student representatives of the university council, Isabel Alejandra Díaz and Jessý Jónsdóttir, followed up on this by putting forth a proposal detailing this change within the university council, alongside Student Council members from the School of Social Sciences.

 

The Student Council would like to thank all those who contributed to this victory in achieving equal rights of students, regardless of faculty.