Academic and research

Academic progress

• Academic progress at RMIT University: providing academic advice to students identified as at risk of unsatisfactory academic performance - guidelines for staff
  
• Academic progress policy
  
• Guidelines for Student Progress Committees - managing the academic progress policy and procedures
  
• Management of at risk higher degree by research candidates policy
  
• Management of at risk higher degree by research candidates procedure
  
• Procedures for the management of unsatisfactory academic progress
  
• Statute 5.4 Academic progress
  
• Student progress committees terms of reference
  

Admission

• Selection and admission policy
  
• Selection and admission procedure
  
• Statute 5.3 Admission to advanced standing
  
• Statute 5.5 Admission to honorary degrees
  

Assessment

• Alternative assessment following specific request – special consideration and equitable assessment - guidelines
  
• Appeals against assessment policy
  
• Appeals against assessment procedure
  
• Assessment General 7.32.1.1 policy
  
• Assessment policies and procedures manual
  
• Deferred and re-sit assessment policy
  
• Equitable assessment arrangements policy
  
• Equitable assessment arrangements procedure
  
• Examinations operating procedure – students
  
• Extension of time for submission of assessable work procedure
  
• Graded assessment in competency based TAFE programs procedure
  
• Guidelines on preparing final exams for courses delivered at RMIT Vietnam
  
• Honours year programs - examination of research component procedure
  
• Management of results policy
  
• Management of results procedure
  
• Moderation and validation of assessment - RMIT Vietnam procedure
  
• Moderation and validation of assessment - TAFE procedure
  
• Moderation and validation of assessment - higher education procedure
  
• Moderation and validation of assessment policy
  
• Overarching Assessment Principles policy
  
• Pass by compensation 7.32.1.4 policy
  
• Regulation 5.4.1 Assessment
  
• Special consideration policy
  
• Special consideration procedure
  
• Supplementary assessment policy 7.32.10.3
  

• Exam procedures

Awards

• Award titles - 7.34.1.3 procedure
  
• Awarding degrees with honours or pass with distinction policy
  
• Awards offered at an RMIT offshore campus policy
  
• Awards offered at an RMIT offshore campus procedure
  
• Honours year programs policy
  
• Partnered delivery of coursework awards guideline
  
• Partnered delivery of coursework awards policy
  
• Partnered delivery of coursework awards procedure
  
• RMIT award abbreviations guidelines
  
• Regulation 5.1.10 Associate degrees
  
• Regulation 5.1.4 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
  
• Regulation 5.1.5 - Degrees of Master by Research
  
• Regulation 5.1.6 Degree of Professional Doctorate
  
• Regulation 5.1.7 Degrees of Master by Coursework
  
• Regulation 5.1.8 Bachelor degrees
  
• Regulation 5.1.9 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (by publication)
  
• Regulation 5.6.1 Awards in conjunction with other institutions
  
• Statute 5.1 Awards
  
• Statute 5.6 Awards in conjunction with other institutions
  
• Withdrawal of awards procedure
  

Copyright and intellectual property

• Checklist for research involving students and industry partners
  
• Copyright licence information
  
• Distribution of the net benefits from commercialisation of R&I intellectual property procedure
  
• Identification, management and commercialisation of University owned E&T intellectual property - procedure
  
• Identification, management and commercialisation of University owned R&I intellectual property - procedure
  
• Intellectual property policy
  
• Moral rights
  
• RMIT Intellectual Property (IP) evaluation panel
  
• RMIT register of research and innovation intellectual property procedure
  
• Regulation 7.1.1 The Intellectual Property Committee
  
• Statute 7.1 Intellectual Property
  

• Intellectual property and contracts
• Intellectual property guide to researchers for research and development projects with outside parties (PDF 27.9 kb 4p)

Course approval, amendment and discontinuation

• Administration of non-accredited programs - 7.28.3.1 procedure
  
• Stand-alone course approval or discontinuation - higher education procedure
  
• Stand-alone course approval or discontinuation policy
  

Higher degrees by research

• Appeals policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Authority policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Award of the Vice-Chancellors research prize/University research prize - guidelines
  
• Award of the degree/graduation policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Candidature policy – higher degrees by research
  
• Casual employment of HDR candidates guideline
  
• Classification of HDR theses/projects procedure
  
• Code of practice for research degree supervision
  
• Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies Council Of Australian Societies of Editors Australian Standards for Editing Practice Policy (ASEP)
  
• Double badged PhDs policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Editing policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Ethical issues and responsible practice policy – higher degrees by research
  
• Examination policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Intellectual property policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Lodgement of final archival copy of thesis/project policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Minimum resources policy
  
• Progress of study policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Project policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Requirements of research degree policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Supervision policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Termination of candidature policy - higher degrees by research
  
• Thesis policy - higher degrees by research
  

• Higher degrees by research policy and procedures booklet (PDF 1.27mb)

Offshore teaching

• Long term offshore assignments procedure
  
• Working offshore policy
  
• Working offshore procedure
  

Plagiarism

• Management of plagiarism in coursework programs procedure
  
• Management of plagiarism in research programs procedure
  
• Plagiarism - guidelines for teaching staff
  
• Plagiarism policy
  

Program accreditation, amendment and renewal

• Accreditation by RMIT of a program developed by another university - 7.28.2.4 procedure
  
• Administration of non-accredited programs - 7.28.3.1 procedure
  
• Approval of new awards comprising courses previously approved in other awards - 7.25.2.5 procedure
  
• Awarding degrees with honours or pass with distinction policy
  
• Awards offered at an RMIT offshore campus procedure
  
• Honours year programs - examination of research component procedure
  
• Honours year programs policy
  
• Intermediate program awards 7.28.2.1- policy and procedure
  
• Joint awards - 7.28.2.2 policy and procedure
  
• Language of instruction policy
  
• Maintenance of the RMIT scope of registration procedure
  
• New program approval of double degree or dual award - 7.28.2.3 - procedure
  
• Program approval guidelines sections
  
• Program approval of HE coursework programs - guidelines
  
• Program approvals calendar for RMIT accredited programs at AQF levels 5 and above – deadlines for 2012
  
• Program approvals for TAFE and HE coursework programs procedure
  
• Program design guidelines and principles for development of associate degrees
  
• Programs for which pass with distinction or honours may be offered 7.34.1.1 procedure
  
• Steps for changes to the duration of a program
  
• Steps for changes to the title of a program
  
• Steps for program amendments
  
• Steps for the development of new programs
  
• Steps for the implementation of a program through a partnership onshore or offshore
  
• Student electives policy
  

Program discontinuation

• Program stream, and course discontinuance or interruption - transitional arrangements - Higher Education procedure
  
• Program stream, and course discontinuance or interruption - transitional arrangements - TAFE procedure
  
• Program stream, and course discontinuance or interruption transitional arrangements policy
  

Program quality

• Business rules for the recording of competencies – academic 7.28.4.3
  
• Course level student feedback procedure
  
• Establishment and operation of student staff consultative committees procedure
  
• Guidelines for the operation of student staff consultative committees
  
• Management of program advisory committees – procedure
  
• Organisational reviews - developing a self-assessment
  
• Program annual review for TAFE and Higher Education coursework programs procedure
  
• Program quality assurance policy for TAFE and Higher Education coursework programs
  
• Quality assurance and improvement policy – Higher degrees by research
  
• Quality assurance of third party/partner delivery of TAFE awards - procedure and checklists
  
• Standards for the support of RMIT students: offshore programs
  
• Student feedback in programs delivered in conjunction with partners procedure
  
• Student feedback policy
  
• TAFE curriculum maintenance procedure
  
• University and program surveys procedure
  

Research ethics approval

• Clinical trials guidelines
  
• Ethical issues associated with web-based surveys
  
• Guidelines on use of human tissue in research
  
• Obtaining human research ethics approval
  

Research practice

• Authorship of research outputs procedure
  
• Grant application procedures
  
• Handling allegations of research misconduct procedure
  
• Management of research data and records
  
• Publication and dissemination of research results procedure
  
• RMIT code of conduct for research
  
• Research funding from the tobacco industry policy
  
• Responsible conduct of research policy
  

Research structures

• Establishment of research centres procedure
  
• Establishment of research groups procedure
  
• Establishment of research institutes procedure
  
• Establishment of research structures guidelines
  
• Five year review of research institutes procedure
  
• Research structures policy
  
• Three year review of research centres procedure
  

Service teaching

• Service teaching guidelines - Appendix B
  
• Service teaching policy
  

Timetabling

• Timetabling policy
  
• Timetabling procedure
  

Work integrated learning

• Information to be provided to enrolled students about Work Integrated Learning activities - guideline
  
• Management of practical placement and work experience procedure
  
• WIL activity information to be provided to host organisation guideline
  
• Work integrated learning (WIL) at RMIT policy