Rules and processes
These pages are your guide for understanding the rules, requirements, and processes that keep your time at Cambridge running smoothly.
In this section of the website you'll find:
Rules and legal compliance
Find out what's expected of you and what your rights are, including: IT use, freedom of speech, harassment and sexual misconduct, plagiarism and academic misconduct, guidance on public gatherings and protests, residency requirements, and use of the University's brand.
Student Registration
Find out about the annual Student Registration exercise: what it is and how to complete it, answers to common questions, and how to get help.
Managing your student information
These pages explain how to make changes to your personal or study information during your time at Cambridge. Find information on:
- Managing your CamSIS student record
- Changing your personal details such as name or College; or, for international students, applying for person(s) to join you in Cambridge
- Supervision reports; what they are and how to access them
- Obtaining Academic Verification letters (e.g., for Council Tax exemption)
- For postgraduate students:
- information on breaks in study, including intermission, flexible study or short breaks, and options for leave
- working or living away from Cambridge
- withdrawing from study or being reinstated
- making changes to your course of study, mode of study, Department, or supervisor
- extending your thesis submission date, including applying to allow or exempt terms of prior study
- applying for exemption to the University Composition Fee
Term dates and calendars
Stay on track with term dates, attendance and residence policies, and key timelines.