University of Canberra - Statute No. 31

Citation

1.

This Statute may be cited as the Granting of Status Statute 1995.

Repeal

2.

The Granting of Status Statute (Statute No.9 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education) is repealed.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;

"award", in relation to the University or another tertiary institution, means a degree, diploma or certificate awarded by the institution;

"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;

"status", in relation to a person, means the partial qualification of the person towards an award of the University or of any other tertiary institution;

"tertiary institution" means an educational institution at which some or all of the students who attend the institution are taught at the tertiary level of education and includes a university, a college of advanced education, an institute of technology, a college of technical and further education and a teachers' training college.

Making of rules for granting of status

4. (1)  The Council may make rules, not inconsistent with the Act or a Statute, with respect to the granting to a person of status towards an award of the University (in this section called a "relevant award") because:

 

(a)  the person holds an award, or status towards an award, of a tertiary institution other than the University; or

(b)  the person has:

(i)  undertaken studies at the University or another tertiary institution, other than a course of study leading to an award of the University or other institution; or

(ii)  undertaken studies under the guidance of an appropriate training provider; or

(iii)  acquired knowledge from appropriate experience.

(2)

Rules made under subsection (1) may empower the Academic Board, or the relevant Faculty Board acting in accordance with guidelines determined by the Academic Board, to grant, or to refuse to grant, to a person status towards an award of the University subject to such conditions or limitations, if any, as are specified in the rules.

(3)

In this section:"appropriate experience" means work or another form of practical or learning experience that has been determined by resolution of the Academic Board to be appropriate experience for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(iii);

"appropriate training provider" means a training provider that has been determined by resolution of the Academic Board to be an appropriate training provider for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii);

"relevant Faculty Board" means the Faculty Board that administers the course of studies in relation to which a person has applied for the grant of status under rules made under subsection (1);

"training provider" means a person, body or institution (not being a tertiary institution), whose activities include the provision of training and includes a professional body, an enterprise, a private educational institution and any other similar provider of training.

Rules may provide for the Academic Board to review decisions of Faculty Boards

5.   Rules made under section 4 empowering a Faculty Board to grant, or refuse to grant, status towards an award of the University to a person may also provide for the review by the Academic Board of any such decision made by the Faculty Board.

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Statute: No. 31
Made by Council at Meeting No. 42 ,8 Nov 95
Signed by the Governor-General on 20 Dec 95
Gazetted on 24 January 1996, Gazette No. 3