Document Retention Schedule

The records of the University are described according to the classification set out in the JISC/NFF Study of the Records Life Cycle (2002) as follows:

1. Teaching and Learning
2. Research
3. Corporate Management
4. External Relations
5. Student Administration and Support
6. Resource Management

The schedule describes only the corporate requirements of the University to demonstrate diligence and performance. The records described will be held by a named individual at one location within each organisational unit named. Individual departments and faculties may have additional records requirements which may be devolved.

Destruction periods are described in years following either:

• - the creation or receipt of the document
• - its ceasing to be current
• - it being superseded by a revision
• - completion of a student's programme of study

Document Retention Schedule [DOCX]