Accumulation of Study Time Sample Clauses

Accumulation of Study Time. Study time may be accumulated to a maximum of five days per year (or two and a half days per semester) subject to the approval and convenience of the Employer and a request by the Employee. It will be remembered that Employees engaged in courses requiring compulsory attendance at a residential school are not eligible for weekly study time, but are allowed a maximum of five days per subject per year (or two and a half days per subject per semester) to attend those schools. Employees, other than those covered in the second paragraph of this Section, who are entitled to less than two hours’ study leave per week may elect to accumulate that time and taken it in half-day or one-day periods if they feel that this will be more beneficial to their studies. Where students believe that their course requirements and/or personal circumstances are such that they would benefit more by accruing study time rather than taking it weekly, they may be granted a consolidated period not exceeding five days per year (or two and a half days per semester) in substitution for weekly study time, and may take this leave either prior to or during examinations. Students who receive some paid study time weekly for lecture attendance and/or travelling time during working hours, and also have some additional entitlement (e.g. from attendance at out-of-hours lectures) may convert the additional entitlement to a five-days-per-annum grant if they so desire. Approval to accrue five (or two and a half) days’ study time as provided above should be sought at the beginning of each course year. However, a student who elects to accrue at the beginning, or vice versa, may opt to reverse that decision, as from 1 July, for the remainder of the year. The Employer, in giving approval for the accrual of study time, should ensure that the Employer will not be inconvenienced, nor the maintenance of its essential operations jeopardised, by such arrangement, and that there will be no need to employ relief staff. However, where approval is initially given, the Employer is required to honour its undertaking for the agreed period even though circumstances may alter and the Employee’s absence then becomes inconvenient. If the Employer declines an Employee’s request for approval of accumulation of study time it is obliged to grant such time on a weekly basis.