The University can provide travel insurance for staff and students.
Travel insurance
Important information
It is University policy that all travel must align with the University of Exeter Principles for Essential Travel and the International Travel Policy. This ensures that safety and security concerns and that the University's carbon commitments are fully considered. Relevant risk assessments and more information on University travel processes can be found here. The principles for essential travel document also provides detail on the required approval pathway for different types of travel. Note that if the risk assessment and approval process has not been completed, expense claims made for travel and subsistence may not be paid. Audits will be conducted on registered travel, so please be prepared to provide evidence of risk assessment and approval.
Important notice regarding cover for trip cancellation or curtailment:
With effect from 01/08/2022 the university has cover up to £50,000 in the aggregate during any one period of insurance for any claim arising from Quarantine or travel restrictions due to government orders, warnings, advisories, regualtions directives, prohibitions, or border closures, relating to a current or previous epidemic or pandemic (including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and any mutation, strain, or variation of COVID-19) declared by the World Health Organisation or by any offical governing body or health authority.
The definition of Quarantine being as follows:
Quarantine: A restriction on movement or travel imposed by an official governmental body or health authority, in order to slow or prevemnt the spread of an epidemic or pandemic related communicable disease.
Travel Insurance details
- The University’s travel insurer is AIG
- The emergency telephone number is: +44 (0)1273 552 922
- Policyholder: University of Exeter
- Policy number: 0010628173
Please note that the Insurance team is working from home due to Covid-19 restrictions. If you need to contact us, please email us. The insurance mailbox is monitored, and urgent queries will be picked up.
It provides very wide cover for staff and postgraduate students while travelling abroad. Cover includes unlimited medical emergency expenses (although does not provide cover for routine or non-emergency treatment), medical repatriation, loss of personal belongings, loss of University equipment, travel cancellation, alteration and delay.
Travel insurance
Important information
Please note that the Insurance team is working from home due to Covid-19 restrictions. If you need to contact us, please email us. The insurance mailbox is monitored, and urgent queries will be picked up.
The University travel insurance provides very wide cover for staff and postgraduate students while travelling abroad. Cover includes unlimited medical emergency expenses (but not routine or non-emergency treatment), medical repatriation, loss of personal belongings, loss of University equipment, travel cancellation, alteration and delay.
Undergraduate travel
A similar policy is also available for undergraduate student for fieldtrips and study abroad programmes.
For more information and to apply for undergraduate travel insurance please visit our undergraduate travel insurance web page.
Useful documents
Full detail of the Universtiy of Exeter travel insurance cover is set out in the documents listed below:
