Faculty Academic Policies and Procedures Manual
'This manual aims to provide both staff and students with information on the policies and procedures of the Faculty. It should be noted that the University Handbook, regulations, policies or procedures take precedence over this manual should there be any conflict of information. Likewise, the information contained in this manual takes precedence over any information provided by School handbooks that appear to conflict with it. Policies and procedures will be updated as required. '
Source: 1.1 Introduction
Acronyms
A
AVCC - Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee
APC - Academic Progress Committee
au - academic units
au - assessment units
B
BCG - Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
C
CRICOS - Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas students
CEM - Chief Examiners Meeting
CSP - Commonwealth Supported Places
CP - credit point
CED - Clinical Education Database
CEO - Centre Executive Officer
D
DETYA - Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs
DSW - Doctor of Social Work
DEST - Department of Education, Science and Training
DHS - Department of Human Services
E
EFTSU - Effective Full Time Student Units
ESRU - Employment Screening and Review Unit
F
FCC - Faculty Curriculum Committee
FDC - Faculty Development Committee
FCC - Faculty Curriculum Committee
FXO - Faculty Executive Officer
FPP - Fee Paying Places
FHEC - Faculty Human Ethics Committee
FB - Faculty Board
FLaT - Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee
G
GST - Goods and Services Tax
H
HECS - Higher Education Contribution Scheme
HD - Higher Degree
HBV - Hepatitis B virus
HVC - Hepatitis C virus
HEC - Human Ethics Committee
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
L
LHS - La Trobe Health Sciences
LTU - La Trobe University
M
MMR - Measles, Mumps and Rubella
N
NSW - New South Wales
Q
QAU - Quality Assurance of Units
QLD - Queensland
R
RGSO - Research and Graduate Studies Office
RTS - Research Training Scheme
S
SOL - StudentOnLine
SAP - Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing
SIS - Student Information System
SAM - School Administration Manager
SRC - Students' Representative Council
T
TB - Tuberculosis
U
Udb - Unit Database
UDU - University Development Unit
V
VTAC - Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre
VCAC - Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee
VPD - vaccine-preventable disease