Citation

1. This Statute may be cited as the Academic Progress Statute 1995.

Repeal

2. The Academic Progress Statute 1990 is repealed.

Definitions

3. In this Statute, unless the contrary intention appears:

“Academic Board” means the Academic Board of the University established by section 19 of the Act;

“academic probation” means, when applied to a student, that the student’s continuation of their course of study is subject to specified conditions;

“appropriate review authority” means an authority referred to in section 4;

“faculty” means a faculty determined by the Council under section 8 of the Act;

“Faculty Board” means the Board of Studies of a faculty of the University.

Appropriate review authority

4. For the purposes of this Statute, the appropriate review authorities are:

(a) the Academic Board; and

(b) the Faculty Boards; and

(c) a committee or committees appointed by resolution of the Academic Board.

Academic progress rules

5. (1) The Council may make rules, not inconsistent with the Act or a Statute, dealing with the academic progress of students.

(2) Rules made under subsection (1) may provide for an appropriate review authority:

(a) to review the academic progress of a student; and

(b) to place on academic probation a student whose academic progress has been found by an appropriate review authority not to meet certain criteria; and

(c) to take action in respect of a student who has been placed on academic probation and who has been found by the appropriate review authority not to have met the conditions of that probation, including action:

(i) prohibiting the student from continuing with, or taking, any course of study or any unit of a course of study, or taking any examination in such a course or unit; or

(ii) prohibiting the student from continuing with, or taking, any course of study, or any unit of a course of study, or taking any examination in such a course or unit, otherwise than in accordance with such conditions as are specified in the direction.

(3) Rules made under subsection (1) that empower an appropriate review authority (other than the Academic Board) to take action in respect of a student may also provide for the review, by the Academic Board, of any decision by the appropriate review authority to take action in respect of the student.

Notes

Statute No. 27:

Made by Council at Meeting No. 42, 8 November 1995

Signed by the Governor-General on 20 December 1995

Gazetted on 24 January 1996, Commonwealth Gazette No. 3

Table of Amendments

No.	Statute	Instrument number	Date of assent	Date of commence-ment
1	University of Canberra (Academic Progress) Amendment Statute 2005	DI 2005-192	17 Aug 2005	26 Aug 2005