Any student whose progress in the year of study just completed is unsatisfactory, as defined below, shall be referred to one of the faculty's academic progress committees for a determination. This may include any student who discontinued studies after first semester.
If a student's progress is to be considered by an academic progress committee, he or she will be notified by mail. The student will be invited initially to submit written evidence to explain the case. A decision may be made by the committee on the basis of this evidence to permit the student to continue his or her studies. If further information is required, the student will be given the opportunity to appear before the committee.
The academic progress committees will meet in December/January and the committees may determine on the evidence before them either that the student may re-enrol for further studies, subject to such limitations as it may impose, or that the student shall be excluded from his or her course. A student who has been given notice of exclusion from the course by the committee has the right to appeal to the Academic Board against this determination. Students who have been advised that they are required to appear before one of the faculty academic progress committees may enrol in summer semester subjects.
A student, excluded from the course in any year, may apply for re-admission in any subsequent year (undergraduate students apply through VTAC), but an application is likely to be approved only if the student can satisfy the faculty at that time that the factors which were considered to have contributed to unsatisfactory academic performance in the past would no longer affect the student's studies.
The criteria on liability for exclusion are as follows.
Only students who fail a subject or subjects will be liable for exclusion. P2 passes will be allowed (ie counted as a pass) to the limits defined above under `Examination grades'.
First year
1 No student enrolled in both semesters will be considered for exclusion solely on the basis of results achieved in first semester.
2 If students are in their first year of tertiary study they will be liable for exclusion if they do not pass at least one quarter of the subjects taken in the year. Other students who do not pass at least half of the subjects taken in the year will be liable for exclusion.
Second year
Students who do not pass at least half of the points value of the subjects taken in the year will be liable for exclusion
Third year
Students who do not pass at least half of the subjects taken in the year will be liable for exclusion, unless (i) only one subject is taken, failed and it is the only failure to date; (ii) only one subject is taken and it is the last subject required for completion of the degree (except that if this is the second time such a last subject is failed then students will be liable for exclusion).
In all designated degrees students must obtain a mark of 50P or more in all compulsory subjects or at least thirty points (which includes all compulsory subjects), whichever is the greater.
Unsatisfactory academic performance occurs where a student fails the same subject twice, fails more than half the subjects attempted in the last two years of study, or fails all the subjects attempted in one semester of study.
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