Student college handbook 2025

Welcome to Oxford University and to Green Templeton College! We hope your time here will be productive and successful academically but also enjoyable and inspiring.

 This handbook is intended to be a comprehensive guide covering all you need to know about life at Green Templeton College, both before you arrive and throughout your time in Oxford. It also sets out the main regulations and responsibilities that guide the college’s provision for students and about the way the college operates to ensure a harmonious and positive community.

Together with your offer letter, college accommodation licence agreement (if applicable), college contract and associated terms and conditions, this handbook forms your contract with the college. It is therefore essential that you take time to read it before you first arrive in college, as well as using it for reference during your course.

If this is your first time as a student in Oxford, we strongly recommend you read at least the first section now (Arrival in College) as there are some things that will go much more smoothly if you complete certain actions before your arrival. You should also have received, alongside your departmental offer letter, the University Student Handbook, a course information sheet, and the University’s Terms and Conditions, which all together govern your relationship with the collegiate university. There is also a course handbook available from your department, which will provide detailed information about your course and its specific requirements (including examinations and assessments).

Specifically, everyone has a personal responsibility for complying with, and demonstrating active commitment to our college policies and Equality and Diversity ethos. All these documents together with this handbook form our main sources of information and advice, and should answer most questions about your course or your studies.

If you have any suggestions about how the handbook can be improved, please contact the Admissions Officer in the first instance.