Your BRP should state 20 hours per week, during term-time. If it does not, this is likely to be an error – we can advise you how to correct this. The 20-hour limit would apply to all.

As an undergraduate student you can work full-time during the University holidays as per the Dates webpage. You can also work full-time after the course end date stated in your most recent CAS if you have finished your studies.

Please note that the University’s Temporary Staffing Service guidelines recommend only 15 hours per week, during term-time.

Volunteering is not subject to the 20-hour time limit. There is a distinction between unpaid/voluntary work and volunteering. Please visit this UKCISA webpage for clarification. Most unpaid internships would be regarded as voluntary work rather than volunteering.

Your BRP should state 20 hours per week, during term-time. If it does not, this is likely to be an error – we can advise you how to correct this. The 20-hour limit would apply to all the jobs you may be doing, including unpaid/voluntary work.

As a postgraduate taught student you can work full-time during the Easter and Christmas University holidays as per the Dates webpage. Summer holidays do not apply to postgraduate taught students as that is considered term-time when you work on your final project. You therefore must keep to the 20-hour limit during the summer months.

Working after studies, you can work full-time after both your submission date and CAS end date have passed. This means that i) if you submit later than your CAS end date e.g. because you have had an academic extension, you must wait until after your submission date to work full time and ii) if you submit before your CAS end date you will have to wait until your CAS end date has passed to be able to work full time.  

Please note that the University’s Temporary Staffing Service guidelines recommend only 15 hours per week, during term-time.

Volunteering is not subject to the 20-hour time limit. There is a distinction between unpaid/voluntary work and volunteering. Please visit this UKCISA webpage for clarification. Most unpaid internships would be regarded as voluntary work rather than volunteering.

Your BRP should state 20 hours per week, during term-time. If it does not, this is likely to be an error – we can advise you how to correct this. The 20-hour limit would apply to all the jobs you may be doing, including unpaid/voluntary work.

As postgraduate research student you would get the same holiday allowance as University staff rather than as taught degree students. You get 25 working days of annual leave a year plus closure dates as defined on the University’s Dates website under “University closure days (CD) and bank holidays (BH)”. Summer holidays, and extended Easter and Christmas breaks under ‘Key Academic Dates’ do not apply to you.

This means that you can only work full-time during any complete closure weeks (Monday to Sunday) and during annual leave arranged with your supervisor as per the PGR annual leave policy. Any leave taken will have to be full calendar weeks (5 working days) in order for the limit to not apply.

It is also possible to combine the closure days with annual leave to make a whole week’s holiday. For example, Easter Monday is a Bank Holiday, followed by a University Closure day on the Tuesday. You can arrange 3 days’ annual leave on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and work more than 20 hours a week during that whole week.

Working after studies, you can work full-time after both your submission date and CAS end date have passed. This means that i) if you submit later than your CAS end date e.g. because you have had an academic extension, you must wait until after your submission date to work full time and ii) if you submit before your CAS end date you will have to wait until your CAS end date has passed to be able to work full time.  

Please note that the University’s Temporary Staffing Service guidelines recommend only 15 hours per week, during term-time.

Volunteering is not subject to the 20-hour time limit. There is a distinction between unpaid/voluntary work and volunteering. Please visit this UKCISA webpage for clarification. Most unpaid internships would be regarded as voluntary work rather than volunteering.

Your BRP should state 10 hours per week, during term-time. If it does not, this is likely to be an error – we can advise you how to correct this to comply with your visa conditions. The 10-hour limit would apply to all the jobs you may be doing, including unpaid/voluntary work.

As an International Foundation student you can work full-time during the University holidays as per the Dates webpage. You can also work full-time after the course end date stated in your most recent CAS if you have finished your studies.

Volunteering is not subject to the 10-hour time limit. There is a distinction between unpaid/voluntary work and volunteering. Please visit this UKCISA webpage for clarification. Most unpaid internships would be regarded as voluntary work rather than volunteering.

Your BRP should state 10 hours per week, during term-time. If it does not, this is likely to be an error – we can advise you how to correct this to comply with your visa conditions. The 10-hour limit would apply to all the jobs you may be doing, including unpaid/voluntary work.

As an Pre-sessional student you can work full-time during the University holidays as per the Dates webpage. You can also work full-time after the course end date stated in your most recent CAS if you have finished your studies.

Volunteering is not subject to the 10-hour time limit. There is a distinction between unpaid/voluntary work and volunteering. Please visit this UKCISA webpage for clarification. Most unpaid internships would be regarded as voluntary work rather than volunteering.

Should a student withdraw from their course or suspend their studies for longer than 60 days, our sponsorship of that student would cease and the student's visa will eventually be cancelled by the UKVI. The UKVI will usually shorten the visa to 60 days from the date the process the University's notification. The right to work in the UK will cease after the adjusted visa expiry date. As the UKVI do not always serve the notice in a reliable way, it is not always possible to tell when exactly the visa will expire in these cases. It would therefore be safest to stop working 60 days after you receive the reporting email from the Student Visa Compliance team as the UKVI may action the cancellation at that point. 

A student who has successfully completed their course early and is reported as an early completer to the UKVI by the Student Visa Compliance team retains the right to work for the relevant length of time following their course completion (usually four months). If you are completing your studies early but the qualification is not the one your CAS was issued for, please contact us to find out how this may impact your working conditions. 

If your course end date is extended past the date that was stated in your CAS, we strongly advise that you do not exceed your term-time working limit (20 or 10 hours). You will still be considered as being in term-time, especially if your registration status is ‘Registered’. If after finishing studies you learn that you will have an extension/resubmission/major corrections or any other academic event that will extend your course end date, we advise you observe the term-time working limit as soon as you find out about this. You should not exceed the working hours limit if you have been issued a new CAS to extend your Student visa, as the University is sponsoring you for a visa, which implies you are a full-time student in term-time.

You cannot undertake any work whatsoever, whether paid, unpaid or voluntary. This includes work placements, which are not allowed even if part of your course.