Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L01601:reg:12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L01601
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 12
Character Range: 16298–19091

12      Failure to maintain satisfactory academic progress: postgraduate coursework

(1)    If a student fails a total of 3 (or more) courses in which the student is, or has at any time been, enrolled in any postgraduate coursework award program (or programs), the student is considered to have failed to maintain a satisfactory standard of academic progress in postgraduate coursework, and is regarded as being on probation.

(2)    If subsection (1) applies to a student, the Registrar must, as soon as practicable, tell the student, in writing, that:

(a)    the student is considered to have failed to maintain a satisfactory standard of academic progress in postgraduate coursework, and is regarded as being on probation; and

(b)    the student may be excluded from postgraduate coursework award programs if the student fails a total of 5 (or more) courses in which the student is, or has at any time been, enrolled in any postgraduate coursework award program (or programs).

(3)    If a student fails a total of 5 (or more) courses in which the student is, or has at any time been, enrolled in any postgraduate coursework award program (or programs), the Delegated Authority for the postgraduate coursework award program in which the student is, or was last, enrolled may exclude the student from postgraduate coursework award programs for a specified period of no longer than 5 years.

(4)    If:

(a)    under Part 4 (Academic progress appeals and reviews), the Academic Progress Committee permits a student to continue to undertake postgraduate coursework award programs; and

(b)    the student subsequently fails a total of 2 (or more) courses in which the student is, or has at any time been, enrolled in any postgraduate coursework award program (or programs);

the Delegated Authority for the postgraduate coursework award program in which the student is, or was last, enrolled may exclude the student from postgraduate coursework award programs for a specified period of no longer than 5 years.

(5)    If the Delegated Authority excludes the student from postgraduate coursework award programs under this section, the Registrar must, as soon as practicable, tell the student, in writing:

(a)    that the student has been excluded from postgraduate coursework award programs; and

(b)    the period that the student has been excluded; and

(c)    that the student may appeal to the Academic Progress Committee against the exclusion.
            [Note: Division 4.1 (Exclusion decisions) applies to an appeal.]

(6)    To remove any doubt, if a student fails the same course 2 or more times, each failure counts, for this section, as a failure of a course by the student.

(7)    This section is subject to section 13 (Restoration of good standing: postgraduate coursework).