Student Rights and Responsibilities
Letter of Offer
The letter from the Principal offering an applicant a place in a course of the College informs him or her of community responsibilities in the following terms:
‘Because of the character of our Christian faith, the community learning experience is taken very seriously by the College faculty and it is for this reason that weekday lunches and the Tuesday evening meal, together with three chapel services per week, are regarded as obligatory.’
Student Handbook
Student obligations, privileges and rights together with all academic regulations are set out in the Student Handbook. Versions of this information is also available on the College web site.
Appeals Policies
Student rights are presented through the full range of appeals policies required as part of Fairness Policies specified by the Higher Education Support Act 2003. These are published on the College web site (http://www.moore.edu.au). Students are informed of their availability in Chapter 3.6.8 of the Student Handbook. They include:
1. Academic Grievance (Appeals) Policy;
2. Academic Misconduct Policy;
3. Critical Incident Policy;
4. External Dispute Resolution (Overseas Students only);
5. Information Privacy Policy;
6. Non-academic Grievance Policy;
7. Refund Policy (Overseas Students only);
8. Relocation Notice Policy (Overseas Students only);
9. Review Procedures: Re-crediting FEE-HELP Policy;
10. Student Selection Procedures; and
11. Tuition Assurance Statement.
Plagiarism
1. Students are informed in the Guidelines for essays, theses and all written work of the requirements to acknowledge sources. This is set out in Section 3.9.5.7 of the Student Handbook as follows:
‘Footnotes and endnotes are used: (1) to give references to sources (books, articles or unpublished documents) from which you have derived facts, opinions or quotations. Failure to acknowledge such sources is a serious breach of academic standards and may be considered plagiarism.’
2. Students’ attention is drawn to the College’s Academic Misconduct policy at Section 3.6.8 of the Student Handbook.
3. The Academic Misconduct Policy is set out on the College web site.
4. All students are required to sign the following certificate when submitting essays and other written assessment items:
‘By submitting this work, I am certifying that:
1. I have read and understood the Moore College Academic Misconduct Policy;
2. I understand that Plagiarism (i.e. un-acknowledged use of published or unpublished material) can lead to the College proceeding against me in terms of the Moore College Academic Misconduct Policy; and
3. This work is substantially my own, and to the extent that any part of this work is not
my own I have indicated that it is not my own by Acknowledging the Source of that
part or those parts of the work.
Signed ………………………………. Date: …….../………/200_’
5. Given the size and community nature of the College and thus the familiarity of lecturers with the work of students and the body of knowledge the College believes that the ability of lecturers to identify possible occurrences of plagiarism is an adequate mechanism for detection. During the last five years alleged occurrences of plagiarism have occurred at the rate of less than once per year.
Enrolment Details and Timetabling
1. In the week before the start of Semester 1 students register for units within the course in which they are enrolled.
2. Students are provided with written confirmation of enrolment details relating to the units for which they are registered and courses in which they are enrolled in the first week of Semester 1. Commonwealth Assistance Notices (CANs) are issued to students in terms of the requirements of the Higher Education Support Act (HESA) 2003.
2. Students are provided with draft timetables for all classes at least four weeks prior to the start of each Term. Final class timetables are issued in hard copy to all students in the week before the start of each Term.