1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Alternative Category Entry
The Swinburne Alternative Category Entry program
enables applicants with no VCE or equivalent qualification
to be considered for acceptance into undergraduate courses.
The categories are:
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Aae and Education
There are no age restrictions. This category is for applicants
with no VCE or equivalent. Selection is based on the
personal history provided with the application for all
courses except Business, which requires applicants to sit the
Special Admissions Test administered by VTAC for the
Australian Council for Educational Research.
Continuing Difficulties During Schooling,
Applicants . . with Disabilities &
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Applicants in these categories may provide additional
information with their application form and contact the
Swinburne Equity Unit for further assistance. Applicants
who have passed VCE may also provide additional
information with their applications.
In all cases, applicants for courses offered by Engineering
and Science must have passed the course prerequisites.
Enrolment and other regulations
Definitions of Enrolment terms
In this section:
Enrolment includes 're-enrolment'.
Enrolment form includes 're-enrolment form'.
Subject means any area of study which is part of a course
leading to an award and which has a title and code number
in the subject register maintained by the University; the
singular includes the plural.
Awarding School means the School or, where courses are
organised on a divisional basis (the Division of Business,
Humanities and Social Science; the Division of Science,
Engineering and Design), the division responsible for the
particular course; 'head of awarding division' has a similar
meaning and includes the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the
division where appropriate and the nominee of the head of
the awarding department or Pro Vice-Chancellor.
Defmd entry means an intending first-year student defers
enrolment for up to one year on receipt of an offer of a place.
Leave of absence means the suspension of enrolment during a
course for a specified period at the discretion of the
appropriate divisional board on the basis that the enrolment
will be resumed at the end of the period.
Amendment to enrolment means the addition, deletion or
changing of subject enrolments in a student's course of
study.
Abandonment means discontinuation of enrolment without
formal notification. Abandon has a similar meaning, unless
the contrary intention is expressed.
Conditions of enrolment
Enrolment at Swinburne University of Technology is
conditional upon:
the information which is supplied by the applicant to
the University, upon which an offer of a place in a
course is based, being accurate and complete;
the approval of the head of the awarding school (or his/
her nominee) of the subjects concerned;
the completion of the requisite enrolment and statistical
information forms required by the University;
the undertaking of the student to abide by the
regulations, procedures and standards of conduct of
Swinburne University of Technology;
the payment of any prescribed general service fee;
the lodging of a Payment Options form in regard to the
Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) and, if
appropriate, making an 'up front'
Deferred entrv
Students who are offered a place in a first year
undergraduate program for-1997 may appiy for a deferment
until 1998. A~~lications . must be addressed to the Divisional
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Manager, and must be made at the time an offer is received.
Deferment is not automatic.
Students who have been granted deferment will be informed
in writing by the division concerned.
The Deferment Procedures policy can be found in the
separate publication Policies and Procedures.
Single subject enrolments
Under the conditions set out below, it is possible to study
single subjects offered by the University without enrolling
in a full degree or diploma course.
The minimum fee per semester for single subject (noncredit)
enrolments in 1997 will be at the rate per weekly
contact hour as set by the division, plus the appropriate
general service fee.
The offering of places in single subjects is at the discretion of
the division concerned and can be done only after full credit
students have been accommodated. Therefore offers may be
as late as the first week of teaching.
An application form is available from the division concerned
or the Admissions Officer.
Exemptions
For details on exemptions please see the entry in the
appropriate Divisional chapter.
Pathways: Articulation and Credit Transfer
The Pathways Program in place at Swinburne is designed to
provide easy articulation between TAFE and Higher
Education Division courses through defined credit transfer
arrangements.
Credit transfer agreements have been completed with the
Higher Education Sector. Articulation is possible both from
TAFE to Higher Education courses and from Higher
Education to TAFE.
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