If you are lucky, most of you will go through your university life without ever experiencing any form of internal university procedure. You will never have cause to appeal an academic grade/mark, you will never need to defend yourself when the university accuses you of academic misconduct (which can be anything from fabrication of results to plagiarism), your university will never attempt to throw you off the course because they deem you unfit, you will never have cause to complain, you will never need the university to give you some leeway because something significant has happened in your life and you will plod along at university just fine.
Sukhvir Gill writes for The National Student
