Unsatisfactory progress and exclusion

The academic performance of the student is deemed to be unsatisfactory if:

• the student fails a subject for the second time;
• the student fails subjects amounting to one-half or more of the student's workload, in the two most recent semesters of enrolment.

While all information supplied to the committee is considered confidential, students may also request that particularly private information be restricted to the chairperson of the committee. Students also have the option not to respond incurring exclusion. Normally a lack of response would preclude a student from appealing to the Exclusion Appeals Committee of Academic Board against a decision to exclude made by the Exclusions Committee.

Students have two avenues of appeal against a decision to exclude by the college Exclusions Committee. In the event of substantial new evidence previously unavailable to the committee, the student may appeal to the director of the college, who may either affirm or reverse the decision of the committee in the light of such new evidence. Under the provisions of the Monash University Statute 6.2 Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Progress, students may also appeal to the Exclusion Appeals Committee of the Academic Board. Alternatively, students may appeal to the university committee rather than appealing to the director of the college (ie where there is no new evidence or where it is preferred to take such new evidence directly to the university committee) or where an appeal to the director of the college is unsuccessful or no new evidence exists.

Students can seek information and advice about the exclusion process from the student advisers in the college but it is not the role of student advisers to draft submissions for students or to act as an advocate at exclusions committee hearings. Such assistance should be sought from the Student Union or Monash University Counselling Services.

In special circumstances, the director of the college may exempt from the exclusion process - and permit re-enrolment - students who otherwise would be liable for exclusion but whose unsatisfactory performance is clearly attributable to a serious, well-documented medical problem.