Sixty seconds on . . . “fit to sit”

Shall I pull up a chair?No, the term “fit to sit” refers to a policy held by many universities which means that if a student sits an exam or submits course work they are declaring themselves well enough to do so, and they cannot later make a claim for extenuating circumstances.Are you having exam nightmares again?All the time—but that’s not what this is about. This is about whether a medical student who took an exam while he was a patient in the intensive therapy unit (ITU) at Whittington Health NHS Trust should have done so.That must have been testingI imagine so. In a since-deleted tweet Whittington Health shared a short video of the medical student sitting in a hospital bed, apparently ready to take an exam. They described him as going “that extra mile.”And someThe tweet went on to say, “A UCL [University College London] student admitted to our ITU…



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