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Student Progress Review Committee
6.1 Composition
(a) Chair, appointed by Faculty Board.
(b) Two members of the academic staff
selected from a panel of academic staff
nominated by heads of departments.
(c) Faculty Administrative Officer.
(d) Where requested by the student, the
President or the Student Union or nominee
may be present at the Committee for
consideration of that case only.
6.2 Procedure
6.2.1 Upon receipt of a show cause application
from a student, the Chair and Secretary of
the Student Progress Rwiew Committee, on
behalf of the Committee, will rwiew the
case and decide whether it will be
necessary to interview the student.
6.2.2 Additional information from appropriate
academic staff about the student's
academic work may be sought by the
Student Progress Rwiew Committee before
a decision is made.
6.2.3 Students will be advised in writing whether
their show cause application has been
accepted without interview, or whether an
interview with the Student Progress Review
Committee is required.
6.3 Powers
The Student Progress Rwiew Committee may,
when considering a show cause application:
6.3.1 accept the student's show cause application
and allow the student to re-enrol without
condition;
6.3.2 accept the student's show cause application
but place conditions upon the student's
enrolment in the following semester;
6.3.3 require the student to take a leave of
absence for a specified period; or
6.3.4 exclude the student from the Faculty for a
period of two academic years..
6.4 Enrolment conditions
The academic record of students placed on
conditions will be reviewed by the Student
Progress Rwiew Committee at the end of the
following semester and a decision made to:
6.4.1 permit the student to continue studying
without further condition; or
6.4.2 impose a further condition on the student
for an additional semester; or
6.4.3 require the student to show cause why
they should not be excluded from the
Faculty for a period of two academic years.
Appeals against decisions of the Student Pmgress
Review Committee
To be advised pending finalisation of new University
assessment regulations.
Period of exclusion
Students who are excluded from the Faculty will not be
permitted to re-enrol for a period of two academic
years (four semesters, excluding summer semesters),
unless the student was excluded under Section 4.2.
Students excluded under Section 4.2 will be permitted
to re-enrol once a subject equivalent to the subject
failed for the third time has been successfully
completed at another higher education institution and
the student has prwided proof of passing the
equivalent subject at that institution.
9. Reenrolment after a period of exclusion
Students wishing to re-enrol after a period of exclusion
must contact the Faculty Administrative Officer three
months prior to the semester in which they wish to reenrol
to receive advice about appropriate procedures.
Students seeking re-enrolment after a period of
exclusion will normally be expected to make a written
case to the Student Progress Rwiew Committee
outlining their activities since they were excluded before
they would be permitted to reenrol. Re-enrolment will
be permitted subject to places being available.
Prizes and Scholarships
The Faculty has been fortunate in obtaining a large number
of scholarships and prizes for its students, mostly provided
by industry. These are to encourage and reward the
academic excellence that the Faculty at all times encourages.
Faculty of Business Scholarships
Sir Reginald Ansett
Memorial Scholarship
T.W. Higgins Scholarship
Awarded on interview,
financial need and academic
ability to a business student
commencing full-time studies.
Awarded on the basis of need
and academic performance to
a full-time second or third
stage ,student in the Faculty of
Business. Applications close in
April.
Bourne GriWihsl Awarded on interview to a
Swinburne Entrepreneurial student entering final stage
Accountant Scholarship accounting.
William Buck
Awarded for both academic
Business Accounting achievement and other
Scholarship
personal qualities to a business
student who has completed at
least two years of full-time
study.
Aspect Computing Awarded on interview to a
Scholarrhip
second stage computing
student.
Swinburne
Awarded on the basis of
Association of Marketing need and academic
Scholarship (SAM performance to a full-time
Scholarship)
second or third stage student
with a major study in
marketing in the Faculty of
Business.
Faculty of Business Prizes
Annual awards are made by the following donors:
Arthur Andersen and
Co. Prize
Bill Hibble, Arthur
Andersen and Co. Prize
Australian Chamber
of Manufactures Prize
Australian Chamber
of Manufactures Prize
The student with the best
aggregate performance in
Financial Management.
The best performance in a
computing programming
unit.
The best student in
Industrial Relations
The best student in
Industry & Government