What Belfast Met expects of you, in plain English — why it exists, what counts as breaking it, and what happens if you do. Read it, take the quiz, then sign and keep a copy for your own records.
This page is a plain-English guide to Belfast Met's Student Code of Conduct — the actual policy is a short but formal document, and this walks through what it means for you day to day. Where this page and the real policy differ, the real policy wins.
Belfast Met wants campus — and every place learning happens, from a classroom to a placement to an online session — to be safe, inclusive and welcoming for everyone in it: students, staff, visitors, neighbours, and the employers who take students on placement. The Code exists to protect that, and to protect the College's own reputation from students who don't hold up their end.
Every Belfast Met student, from the moment you enrol until you finish your course. It doesn't switch off outside the building. The Code applies:
Any Belfast Met site, any time.
Trips, competitions, socials, anything run by the College elsewhere.
You're representing the College there too.
Including student housing and remote/online classes.
This isn't really a list of rules to memorise. It's what "being a decent person other people can rely on" looks like, written down so there's no ambiguity about where the line is — and what happens if you cross it.
Belfast Met wants every student to live out four values — Collaboration, Ambition, Respect and Excellence, or "CARE". They're the spirit behind everything on this page.
Underneath the values, here's what you're actually expected to do.
The policy splits misconduct into ten categories. None of these lists are exhaustive — behaving badly in a way that isn't spelled out here can still get you in trouble. Tap each one.
If you've experienced anything covered by Abusive or Sexual misconduct above — from someone else, whether they're a student or not — that's not something you have to sort out alone. Talk to your course coordinator or personal tutor, contact Safeguarding at safeguarding@belfastmet.ac.uk, or reach Student Counselling via Inspire — confidential, 24/7, all year: 0808 800 0032 or inspiresupporthub.org/students (log-on BMETHUB). You don't need to be in crisis, and you don't need a referral.
Breaking the Code isn't dealt with by this page — it goes through the College's Student Disciplinary Policy. Here's the shape of it.
The ten categories in section 03 are examples, not the complete set. Something can still count as misconduct even if it isn't written down word for word.
Talk to your course coordinator or personal tutor first. The disciplinary process itself has its own right of appeal, and you'll be told how to use it if it comes to that.
Unhappy about how the College has handled something? Raise it through the College's own complaints procedure first — that's what it's there for, and most things get sorted through it.
Still not satisfied once you've been through that? You can take it to the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NIPSO), who act as an independent referee — but they'll normally expect you to have used the College's process first.
Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman, Progressive House, 33 Wellington Place, Belfast, BT1 6HN.
Eight questions on the parts people most often get wrong. No pass mark, nothing recorded — it's just so you know before you sign, not after.
Fill this in, sign it, and you'll get a copy to keep and a copy to send to your lecturer. Nothing here is stored anywhere else — it only exists on this page until you download or email it.
This page is a summary. The document that's actually binding is the College's own policy — read the full Student Code of Conduct (PDF) →. Have a skim of it before you sign below.
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Formal policy language, explained.