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Academic Organisational Unit (AOU)
A unit which the University has formed in order to undertake teaching and/or research functions, or which is used for the purposes of statistical reporting. Faculties and Schools (formerly Department) are AOU's. |
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Academic Subject Code
The alphabetic prefix of a Course i.e. the AART in AART1010.
Also commonly referred to as Subject
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Academic Support Services
Services which provide direct support to the teaching and research functions carried out by the University including libraries, computing centres, educational research and development centres. |
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Academic Staff
A category which is used to identify members of staff whose current duties classification is part of an academic industrial award, i.e. those staff appointed principally to undertake a teaching only function or a research only function or a teaching-and-research function. |
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Attendance Type:
A classification of the amount of load undertaken by a student in a program in the reference year:
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Full-time:
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A student is classified as being full-time when the aggregated student load across all units of study (including work experience in industry units) in a particular program undertaken by the student in the reference year is 0.75 or more. |
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Part-time:
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A student is classified as being part-time when the aggregated student load across all units of study (including work experience in industry units) in a particular program undertaken in the reference year is less than 0.75. |
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Attendance Mode:
A classification of the manner in which a student is undertaking a program.
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Internal Student:
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a student who is undertaking coursework or research through regular attendance at the University. |
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External Student:
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a student who is undertaking coursework or research at a location where physical distance from the University precludes regular attendance. Students studying in this mode will often have their instructional materials delivered to them. |
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Basis for Admission
The most important criteria used in determining whether or not an applicant for admission should be admitted to a program, expressed in terms of the codes used in DEST's Higher Education Student Collection. |
Campus
The University of Newcastle has two campuses: "Callaghan" located in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan and the "Central Coast Campus" situated at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast. |
Casual Staff
A member of staff who is engaged and paid on an hourly or sessional basis. |
Classification of Staff
The classification type of a member of staff is in terms of academic staff and non-academic (general) staff. Classification level refers to the designation; academic staff levels A to E and general staff Higher Education Worker (HEW) levels 1 through 10. |
Commencing Student
A commencing student is one who enrols in a program at the University for the first time. Students who transfer from one program to another, which is significantly different from the first program, are included in this category. The definition of a commencing student is consistent with the documentation provided in DEST's Higher Education Student Data Collection. |
Course
The introduction of the Student Administration System (NUSTAR), in 2001, resulted in a change in definitions.
A course is now used to describe a Unit of Study (e.g. AART1010), and a program is used to define what was previously known as a course (e.g. 10026 - B Information Science). |
Cross-institution Enrolment
A program of study comprising one or more courses provided at this University to a student who is undertaking the program as part of an award or enabling program for which they are enrolled at another institution. |
Department
old term for School see Academic Organisational Unit (AOU). |
DEST
An abbreviation for the Department of Education, Science and Training (formerly DETYA). |
DEST Funded Load
Student Load generated by those categories of students for which DEST provides the University with funds. Students who generate DEST funded load include Australian students, postgraduate fee paying students and cross-institutional students. |
EFTSU (Equivalent Full-time Student Unit)
A measure of the student load attributable to a part of a unit of study, a unit of study or to a set of units of study. The measure indicates the notional proportion of the workload which would be applicable to a standard annual program for a student undertaking a full year of study in a particular year, of a particular program. (See Program EFTSU and Teaching EFTSU). |
Enrolment
An enrolment includes any student admitted to an award program, non-award program, enabling program or cross-institutional program at the University, and who is undertaking approved courses at the reference date. A student may be enrolled in more than one program. |
Fee Paying Overseas Students (FPOS)
An international student in respect of whom a fee is paid to the University to cover the full cost of providing tuition and related services and facilities. |
Fee Paying Postgraduate Students (FPPG)
Students enrolled in a program which meets Commonwealth guidelines in respect of a postgraduate award program for which fees are charged. |
Field of Education Classification (FOE)
The main purpose of the Field of Education classification is to ensure that both programs and courses with the same vocational emphasis are reliably classified to the same 'field of education'. There are 12 broad fields of education. Each broad field of education contains narrow fields of education, which in turn contain detailed fields of education. |
Full-time Equivalence
See 'Staff Full-time Equivalence (FTE)'. |
Full-time and Fractional Full-time Staff
Those staff who hold a substantive appointment at 31 March of the reference year and who work a normal full-time working week or a fraction thereof.
Staff on paid leave are included in the figures.
The substantive appointment of a member of staff refers to the job or position for which they have an entitlement or would normally occupy in the absence of any acting appointment.
A member of staff may have more than one substantive appointment with an institution, e.g. where a member of staff has two appointments, each involving a fractional full-time work contract. |
Full-time Student
See 'Attendance Type/Mode'. |
Function of Staff
Staff can be categorised according to the function of their work. Function is divided into 4 categories: |
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Teaching Only:
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staff who are involved only with teaching and associated activities (including lecturing, group or individual tutoring, preparation of teaching material, supervision of students, marking and preparation for the foregoing activities). There is no formal requirement that research be undertaken. |
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Research Only:
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staff who are employed primarily to undertake research work or to provide technical or professional research assistance; or to manage and lead research staff and staff who support research staff. |
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Teaching and Research:
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staff who are required to undertake both a teaching function and a research function, or whose work requires the management and leadership of teaching staff and persons who support such staff. |
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Other:
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functions other than those above. Staff with such functions may be located within academic organisational units or other types of organisational units. |
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General Institution Services
Services established to facilitate the overall functioning of the University; including staff responsible for buildings, plant and grounds maintenance, security and caretaking. |
General Staff
Includes all staff not identified as academic staff, and is equivalent to the DEST defined "Non-academic" staff. |
Higher Degrees
Postgraduate degrees at the level of coursework master's, research master's, and doctoral degrees. |
Home Residence
The Australian postcode or overseas country code, which the student regards as being their permanent home residence. This may or may not be the same as the student's semester/term residence. |
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International Student
A student who is not one of the following:
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an Australian citizen; or
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a New Zealand citizen, or a diplomatic or consular representative of New Zealand, a member of the staff of such a representative or the spouse or dependent relative of such a representative; or
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a person entitled to stay in Australia, or to enter and stay in Australia, without limitation as to time and resides in Australia during the semester.
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Level of Program
Refers to the following categories of programs:
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Higher Degree by Research:
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doctoral research programs, and masters by research. |
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Higher Degree by Coursework:
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a postgraduate program comprised principally of coursework, leading to a master's or doctoral degree. |
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Other Postgraduate:
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postgraduate programs below the level of higher degrees - includes postgraduate qualifying, graduate diplomas and graduate certificates. |
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Bachelor:
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a program of formal studies leading to a bachelor degree. For the purpose of statistical reporting, this classification includes any honours programs and graduate entry bachelor programs (such as the Bachelor of Laws) and various programs leading to combined degrees (e.g. Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws) or a combination of degree and diploma (e.g. Bachelor of Science/Diploma in Education). |
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Other Undergraduate:
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undergraduate programs below the level of bachelor - includes diplomas, and associate diplomas. |
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Cross-institution:
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cross-institution enrolment (See 'Cross-institution'). |
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Enabling:
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a program of study which provides bridging or supplementary education to enable a person to qualify for admission into an award program. |
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Non-award:
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enrolments in isolated courses which may or may not be counted towards a degree or diploma. |
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Load
See 'Equivalent Full-time Student Unit (EFTSU)'. |
Mode of Attendance
See 'Attendance Type/Mode.' |
Part-time Student
See 'Attendance Type/Mode'. |
Program
A program is used to define what was previously known as a course (e.g. 10026 - B Information Science).
May either be an "award", "non-award" or "enabling". |
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Award program:
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A program of study formally approved by the University which leads to an academic award granted by the institution. |
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Non-award program:
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A program of study which does not lead to an award but is comprised of a unit or units of study from an award program. Completion of such units may or may not be counted as credit towards the requirements of an award program. |
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Enabling program:
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A program of study which provides bridging or supplementary education to enable a person to qualify for admission into an award program. |
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Program EFTSU
The load that is generated from enrolments in programs offered by a Faculty/Unit. (See EFTSU) |
| Public Services Units Units employing staff engaged in areas of work primarily of benefit to people outside of the University; including continuing education and adult education. |
Staff Full-time Equivalence (FTE)
Staff statistics are expressed as full-time equivalence (FTE). A staff member has a full-time equivalence of 1.00 if, at the reference date, he or she has a full-time work contract. Where a staff member has a fractional full-time work contract (part-time), their full-time equivalence is less than 1.00. |
Student
A person for whom there is an enrolment (or multiple enrolments) in a higher education program or programs at the reference date. |
Student Services Units
Units whose primary role involves the provision of support services directed at the welfare of students; including accommodation, careers and employment, counselling, health and loans. |
Student/Staff Ratio
A ratio of student load to teaching staff where student load is expressed as EFTSU taught and staff are expressed as full-time equivalence (FTE). |
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Subject
Used to describe the Academic Subject Code i.e. the alphabetic prefix of a Course e.g. the AART in AART1010.
Previously used to describe a Unit of Study.
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Teaching EFTSU
The load that is actually taught by a school across all programs of the University. (See EFTSU) |
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Type of Attendance
See 'Attendance Type/Mode'. |
Unit of Study
The basic unit of a program, which a student may undertake and on successful completion of the unit's requirements, gain credit towards completion of the program. Units of study were previously known as "subjects". |
Zero Load
Higher Degree Research students who have exceeded the maximum time allowed for completion of a program under DEST funding are classified as 'zero load' students. |
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