Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01752:reg:51
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01752
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 51
Character Range: 56438–58790

51      Classification of awards

(1)    Subject to this section, if a student is granted a coursework award, the award may be graded with a classification.

(2)    A degree of Associate or Bachelor, and a Graduate Certificate, must be granted as an ungraded Pass.

(3)    A Diploma must be classified Awarded with Merit or Awarded.

(4)    A degree of Bachelor Honours must be classified First Class Honours, Second Class Honours, Division A, Second Class Honours, Division B, or Third Class Honours.

(5)    A Graduate Diploma must be classified Awarded with Commendation or Awarded.

(6)    A degree of Medicinae ac Chirurgiae Doctoranda must be classified Awarded with Commendation or Awarded.

(7)    A degree of Master by coursework (AQF level 9) must be classified Awarded with Commendation or Awarded.

(8)    A degree of Master extended (AQF level 9) must be classified Awarded with Commendation or Awarded.

(9)    The Delegated Authority may classify the performance of a student with Commendation only if the student has achieved a weighted average mark of 80% or higher.

(10)    In working out a student's weighted average mark for subsection (9), the Delegated Authority must:

(a)    subject to paragraph (b), take into account all courses undertaken by the student at the University that are counted towards the coursework award to be granted to the student (the current award), whether the courses were undertaken:

(i)    as part of the program for the coursework award; or

(ii)    as part of the program for another coursework award and the student granted credit for them towards completion of the current award; and

(b)    if the current award is a graduate award—not take into account courses undertaken by the student at the University as part of a program for an undergraduate award, even though the student may have been granted credit for them towards completion of the program for the current award; and

(c)    not take into account courses undertaken by the student at another university or tertiary education institution, even though the student may have been granted credit for them towards completion of the program for the current award.

(11)    Subsections (9) and (10) are subject to any modifications approved, in writing, by the Academic Board for a program for a coursework award.

Part 7—Review of decisions