RECORDING GRADES ON ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPTS FOR NON-AWARD (INCLUDING DEST ENABLING) COURSES

DEST DEFINITIONS

Enabling Course	Provides bridging or supplementary education for the purpose of enabling a non overseas student to undertake an award course in a student place which is funded either partially or fully by the Commonwealth at the institution or at another institution; and which meets Commonwealth guidelines concerning the inclusion in the annual data collection of student load for bridging and supplementary programmes.
Bridging Programme	Is provided for particular types of disadvantaged students who need preparation prior to commencing a formal award course - it is offered to students to enable them subsequently, if they so choose, to commence an award course in a student place that is funded either partially or fully by the Commonwealth. Programmes which form part of a formal award course or for which credit will or may be given towards an award course are not considered to be bridging programmes.
Supplementary Programme	Is provided for students subsequent to their commencement of a formal award course in a student place that is funded either partially or fully by the Commonwealth, and which is undertaken concurrently with that course. Such programmes provide supplementary teaching in the form of a separate, discrete programme which is systematic and structured and aimed at addressing difficulties experienced by particular types of disadvantaged students undertaking the award course. Programmes which form part of a formal award course or for which credit will or may be given towards an award course are not considered to be supplementary programmes.

POLICY

1. Domestic students formally enrolling in tertiary units with an assessable outcome will be registered on the student records system in a non-award course and be subject to the University’s regulations and the Higher Education Support Act with respect to student contribution (HECS) and Fees.
   
   
2. Domestic students enrolling in Enabling Bridging Courses, other than the Kulbardi Alternative Tertiary Entrance Course (KATEC), will be registered on the student records system in a non-award course and be subject to the University’s regulations and the Higher Education Support Act with respect to student contribution (HECS) and Fees. These non-award bridging courses have one or more "units", which attract load but do not incur liability for student contribution or tuition fee, nor do they consume student learning entitlement. The grade of pass/fail is suppressed so as to stop it printing on any subsequent transcript. Students may receive a certificate of participation, but no award is conferred. These certificates must comply with the  Senate approved Issuing of Certificates policy.
   
   
3. Students enrolling in the Enabling Bridging Course, Kulbardi Alternative Tertiary Entrance Course, will be registered on the student records system in a non-award course and be subject to the University’s regulations and the Higher Education Support Act with respect to student contribution (HECS) and Fees. This course has an approved structure equivalent to 24 points of pre-tertiary study, which attracts load but does not incur liability for student contribution or tuition fee, nor does it consume student learning entitlement. Students who successfully complete the requirements of the course are transferred to an alternative exit course awarding the pre-tertiary Diploma of University Studies. Academic transcripts should display the student’s course of enrolment, subjects and pass/fail results, but no points, and a statement of completion and award conferral. The diploma completion is not reported to DEST.
   
   
4. Students enrolling in an Enabling Supplementary Course such as the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Veterinary Studies Programme (Waardong) must be enrolled in a degree course. For the purposes of capturing the student’s supplementary unit enrolment they will be registered on the student records system in a non-award enabling course. The DEST guidelines disallow separate grades to be given to supplementary units, so neither the non-award course nor the unit enrolments will appear on the academic transcript.