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
• Guidelines for Student Progress Committees - managing the academic progress policy and procedures
• Statute 5.4 Academic progress

Admission

• Selection and admission instructions
• Selection and admission policy
• Selection and admission procedure

Assessment

• Academic integrity and plagiarism procedure
• Alternative assessment following specific request – special consideration and equitable assessment - guidelines
• Assessment - course assessment committees and program assessment boards procedure
• Assessment instructions
• Assessment policy
• Assessment: academic progress (coursework programs) procedure
• Assessment: adjustments to assessment procedure
• Assessment: conduct of assessment and appeals
• Assessment: management of results procedure
• Assessment: moderation and validation procedure
• Regulation 5.4.1 Assessment and academic progress

Awards

• 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 5.5 Admission to honorary degrees
• 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

• 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
• 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
• Higher Degree by Research - Candidate progress management procedure
• Higher Degrees by Research - Supervisor registration procedure
• Higher degrees by research - Candidature policy
• Higher degrees by research - Candidature procedure
• Higher degrees by research - Supervision policy
• Higher degrees by research - Supervision procedure
• Intellectual property policy - higher degrees by research
• Lodgement of final archival copy of thesis/project policy - higher degrees by research
• Minimum resources policy
• Project policy - higher degrees by research
• Requirements of research degree policy - higher degrees by research
• Supervision and supervisor registration instruction
• 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

• Academic integrity and plagiarism procedure
• Management of plagiarism in research programs procedure

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 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 2013
• 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

• Course level student feedback procedure
• Establishment and operation of student staff consultative committees procedure
• Guidelines for program and course management in HE and TAFE
• 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 annual review manual
• 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 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
• Research funding from the tobacco industry policy
• Research integrity 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