WATCH: University responds to student visa check-in concerns

29 Feb 2024

During a recent open meeting with students, we announced a significant change to the current visa check-in process.

Effective September 2024, we will be introducing a new University-wide system provided by SEAtS Software. This will help us identify any concerns relating to attendance.

These may arise from personal, health or other challenges and allow us to provide better support for students to thrive academically, socially and emotionally. It will also make it simpler for students to demonstrate that they have met any attendance requirements related to accreditation, regulatory or legislative obligations from external bodies.  

Undergraduate and postgraduate students on taught programmes will be able to record their attendance via a mobile app, by scanning a QR code or entering a numeric code shared within a class. 

Professors Danielle George and Steve Pettifer from the project will be engaging with the Students’ Union and any thoughts or comments are from students are welcome by email to to engagementanalytics@manchester.ac.uk

Watch the visa check-in open meeting with students

• On Wednesday 28 February, Robbie Beale, Activities and Cultures Officer at the Students’ Union, hosted an open meeting with students to discuss the visa-check in process and gave them the opportunity to raise questions with senior University leaders. You can watch the open meeting below: