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Establishing, Disestablishing and Amending HDR Courses and Units Policy

Purpose

To provide clarification to staff on the establishment, disestablishment and amendment of HDR courses and units.

Scope

all campuses
all staff who establish, disestablish and amend HDR courses and units

Policy Statement

New HDR degrees/courses/units and amendments to existing degrees/courses and units must be first be considered and approved by the relevant faculty.

To ensure university-wide consistency in its HDR offerings, the RGSC reviews and endorses such proposals coming before it before seeking the final approval of academic board.

In the case of new doctoral programs and units the RGSC will also seek the views of two independent external assessors as a means of guaranteeing/confirming  the reputation of its research training programs.

Supporting procedures

Establishing, Disestablishing and Amending HDR Courses and Units Procedures

Responsibility for implementation

Director, Monash Research Graduate School
Deputy Director, Monash Research Graduate School
Faculty Associate Deans responsible for research degrees
Manager, Monash Research Graduate School
Deans
Heads of department/school/centre

Status

Revised

Key Stakeholders

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training)
Deans/Associate deans responsible for research degrees
Faculty graduate studies officers
HDR Candidates
Monash Research Graduate School

Approval body

Name: Academic Board
Meeting: 3/2007
Date: 23-May-2007
Agenda item: 8.1

Endorsement body

Name: Research Graduate School Committee
Meeting: 3/2007
Date: 30-March-2007
Agenda item: 15

Definitions

RGSC: Research Graduate School Committee

MRGS: Monash Research Graduate School

Major Amendment - courses and degree programs: Major amendments include: Change to campus; Mode of enrolment (on-campus/external); Admission requirements; More than 25% change to existing course; Change involving legislative change; Changes that have legislative consequences; Changes that impact on course progressions or teaching/research supervision loads of other faculties; Any change to research component of course/degree; disestablishment.

Major amendment - units: Major amendments include: Change to year level of offering; Extension of an existing unit to a new location; Offering an existing unit via a new mode; Change in credit points; Any change in the research content/structure/assessment of the unit

Minor amendment - courses and degree programs: Minor amendments include: Changes to sequences of coursework/practica units without an alteration to course requirements or regulations; New ‘non-core’ units/components; Changes not altering course title; Amendments to prerequisites

Minor amendment - units: Minor amendments to units include: Change to unit title; Change in unit code where level not altered; Unit prerequisites, unit title or code following sequence change; Change of content, objectives or assessment in conformity with existing faculty guidelines on minor amendments

Related legislation

Research Graduate School Committee Regulations

Related policies

Related documents

Handbook for Doctoral and MPhil Degrees Approval of research courses and subjects for research degrees - this page includes pro forma templates for requests for:


  • course approvals,  amendments and disestablishment

  • unit approvals, amendments and disestablishment


Library impact statement

Monash Directions 2025

Date Effective

23-May-2007

Review Date

24-November-2007

Owner

Director, Monash Research Graduate School

Author

Manager, Monash Research Graduate School

Contact Person

Policy Mrgs

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