University Glossary
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is an admission pathway that will enable an eligible Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant to study an undergraduate course at Macquarie University. is a level that will specify the minimum standards for a member of academic staff according to complexity, autonomy, leadership requirements, and level of achievement. is an admission pathway that will match the strength of an applicant to select undergraduate courses at Macquarie University based on their performance in relevant HSC subjects and is processed via the Universities Admissions Centre. is an organisational unit that will perform a teaching only function or a research only function or a teaching and research function or technical industry commercial function and will either be a faculty or a department or an discipline (AOU). is an academic standing that will prevent the enrolment of a student for two consecutive standard teaching periods due to unsatisfactory academic performance. is a consequence that will officially record a specified unit of study on the academic transcript of a student if the student has withdrawn from that unit of study after the last withdrawal without academic penalty date. is a process that will provide an identifiable career pathway for all academic staff on the basis of merit, performance and achievement, relative to opportunity and will enable a member of academic staff to apply to a higher academic classification level. is a staff member that will have an employment contract that is covered by the Academic Staff Enterprise Agreement and will typically perform the function of teaching and/or research. is the Enterprise Agreement that will apply to all relevant academic staff of Macquarie University. is a status that will indicate the Academic Progression of a coursework student within an award course and will be assigned at the end of a standard study period and will only be included on their internal record on eStudent and on their Results Notification. is an organisational unit that is established to implement the initiatives of Widening Participation at Macquarie University and may receive funding from the Australian government. is a period of leave that will be paid to an eligible staff member as per the relevant industrial instrument. is an SLE amount that can be accrued by an eligible person in addition to the initial 7 EFTSL of ordinary SLE under specific circumstances. is a numerical value that may be added to an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank to potentially generate a higher selection rank. is an entry point to a postgraduate course that will enable an eligible applicant to either commence study at the standard course duration or at a reduced duration that is predetermined by Macquarie University depending on their prior qualifications, work experience, or other recognised prior learning. is a student that will have an admission to at least one award course or non-award course at a specified time and will typically have an enrolment in a unit of study or be on leave. is the amount that will be charged to a student for a unit of study as a student contribution or a tuition fee or for the student services and amenities fee. is the amount that may be paid upfront by a student for a unit of study as a student contribution or as a tuition fee by the census date or for the student services and amenities fee for a study period. is a form of leave that will enable an eligible staff member with continuing employment or fixed-term employment to be absent from work for an allotted number of days in a calendar year without losing pay. is a monetary amount that will be paid to a staff member in addition to their annual leave and their ordinary base rate of pay and the timing of payment will vary according to the relevant enterprise agreement and/or the specified entity within the Macquarie University Group where the staff member is employed. is a person that has applied for admission to a course or one or more units of study either through a Tertiary Admission Centre or directly to Macquarie University. is an online system that is used to facilitate the management of the recruitment life cycle within the Macquarie University Group and will enable the collection, storage, tracking, and processing of job applications. is the arrangement that will appoint a person to a position. is intelligence that is exhibited by a range of machines particular computer systems. is the specific date that will stipulate the deadline for an assessment task submission. is the expected level of knowledge that should be possessed by a student prior to enrolment in select courses and select units of study. is a classification that will identify the attendance of a student for a specified unit of study and/or for their course. is a method of learning that will specify the attendance for an activity in a unit of study as scheduled or as flexible. is a government organisation that is the central statistical authority for the Australian government. is a member organisation that will represent business faculties across Australia. is a person that will meet all criteria to be a formal legally recognised member of Australia as defined under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007. is an organisation that will administer higher education assessment services including the Special Tertiary Admissions Test and the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test. is a government publication that will specify all fields of education and all levels of education in Australia and will be available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. is a government publication that will assign a language code to each language and will group all languages for statistical purposes and will be available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. is a government publication that will classify all Australian postcodes into five remoteness classes and will be available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. is a numerical rank that will measure the academic achievement of a year 12 student relative to all other year 12 students in their age group and state in the year they graduated from senior secondary school and will be allocated by the Universities Admissions Centre after the completion of an Australian Year 12 qualification and will be used by Macquarie University to calculate the selection rank of an applicant. is a qualification that will certify the successful completion of senior secondary education and will enable access to tertiary education. is an academic activity that will recognise the creation of a work or research and any research outputs by one or more people. is an intensive component of study that will fill any gaps in assumed knowledge and will prepare an undergraduate student to succeed within a specific discipline and may be recommended by Macquarie University prior to enrolment in a specified unit of study and will not typically be counted for credit. is a test that will assess the English language proficiency of an applicant and may be an entry requirement for a course. is a test that will assess the English language proficiency of an applicant and may be an entry requirement for a course. is an essential unit that will integrate the content that is presented across a course and will enable a student to demonstrate all course learning outcomes prior to course completion and may be combined with a PACE unit. is a process that will enable an eligible member of casual staff to convert to a full-time employment contract or a fractional full-time employment contract. is an employment contract that will engage a staff member to perform work on an hourly basis. is a staff member that will have a casual work contract. is a date that will be set by Macquarie University for each study period and will indicate the deadline for a student to withdraw from a unit of study without financial liability. is a government arrangement that will provide funding to an organisation as a research grant via the Linkage Program of the Australian Research Council and will generate a specialised kind of research collective to promote a high level of national and international collaboration in research. is a government arrangement that will provide funding as a research grant via the National Health and Medical Research Council and will generate a specialised kind of research collective to enable a group of researchers to pursue collaborative research and to develop capacity in basic science research, clinical research, health services research, and public health research. is conduct that will involve the attempt by a student to attain credit for any academic exercise through dishonest or unfair means without limitation and may involve copying the work of others undertaking a task, either in whole or part, and presenting it as their own; falsifying in-text citations, references, bibliographies, and/or reference lists; and/or using unauthorised materials, assistance, resources or devices in an academic exercise. is a researcher that will lead a research project. is the country code that will identify the country of citizenship of a person. is an academic activity that will involve the cooperation of at least two people in learning and/or research. is a formal agreement that will specify all the obligations and all the deliverables that are expected of both Macquarie University and all partner organisations for a collaborative research project and will be enforceable by law. is a type of research partnership project that will involve the collaborative pursuit of research with specified objectives that are identified in partnership between Macquarie University and all other participating organisations and will involve contribution of funding and any essential resources by all the partners to undertake the research. is conduct that will involve any unauthorised collaboration between two or more students to complete an academic exercise or part thereof that is designated as an individual task and may include working with a friend, or group of friends, to complete an academic exercise required to be completed individually; and/or sharing the following with other students: quiz, test or examination questions; quiz, test, or examination answers; and/or completed or partially completed academic exercises, e.g., essays, reports, problem sets, multimedia works, presentation slides, computer code, or laboratory results. is a portion of the tuition fee that will be charged to an international student by Macquarie University and must be paid when accepting an offer and will be deducted from the tuition fee of their first semester. is a portion of the commencement fee that may be paid by an international student to indicate a student's intention to accept an offer. is a classification that will categorise an enrolled student as a commencing student or a continuing student and will vary according to the course of study commencement date in the admitted course in that academic year. is a document that will provide information about the enrolment and the student contribution amount of a commonwealth supported student or a student in the higher education loan program and will be issued within 28 days of the census date. is a government arrangement that will provide funding to a higher education provider as a Commonwealth contribution for an agreed number of Commonwealth supported places. is a payment that will support an eligible domestic student during a mandatory placement in a specified course that leads to a Bachelors or Masters degree in teaching, nursing, midwifery or social work and will be available to the student via their higher education provider. is the official register that will list all Australian education providers that offer one or more courses to an international student that is studying in Australia on a student visa and will list all the offered courses. is legislation that will supplement the Higher Education Support Act and will govern the administration of all scholarships under the research training program. is a place in a course that will be subsidised by the Australian Government with a commonwealth contribution through the Commonwealth Grant Scheme and must only be occupied by an eligible domestic student and will require an enrolled student to pay a student contribution by the census date for any enrolled units of study within the course. is a domestic student that will occupy a Commonwealth Supported Place at an Australian higher education provider. is a person that must have satisfied all requirements of an award course and will qualify for the award and is only considered a graduand if the person has no outstanding obligations to Macquarie University. is an offer that will outline any conditions to be satisfied by an applicant to become eligible for a full offer in a nominated course. is an electronic document that will be issued by Macquarie University to an intending international student to confirm their eligibility for enrolment in the specified course and must accompany their application for a student visa. is a type of research partnership project that will make available the skills and/or expertise of academic staff from Macquarie University to apply their existing knowledge to activities such as expert opinion, analysis, testing services, and product and process development to solely benefit the external organisation that is funding the consultancy. is an address that is preferred by a person as their postal address and may differ from their permanent address. is an appointment that will not specify an end date in the employment contract. is a form of cheating that will involve the submission of an academic exercise or part thereof that has been completed by a third party regardless of the relationship between the student and the third party or if the third party is paid or unpaid and will not academically benefit the third party. is a type of research partnership project that will make available the skills and/or expertise of one or more researchers from Macquarie University to pursue research with specified objectives and outcomes and deliverables that are identified by the external organisation to solely benefit the external organisation that is funding the research project. is a period of time that will specify the duration of the substantive appointment or the current duties of a staff member. is the full-time equivalent that will be designated to an appointment as specified in the employment contract. is a competitive course that will enable an eligible student to undertake professional experience at a select leading organisation via several built-in placements in addition to classroom studies. is an organisation that will be funded by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and will be formed through a partnership between publically funded researchers and select research end-users and industry to promote the application of research and industry-led collaboration and must comprise at least one Australian research end-user and at least one Australian higher education provider or a research institute that is affiliated with a university. is a type of responsibility centre that will allocate cost to an organisational unit for accounting purposes and the manager of the cost centre is expected to contain any costs and/or to maximise productivity of the organisation. is a numeric code that will uniquely identify a country and will be sourced from the Standard Australian Classification of Countries. is an admission to a course that will have at least one enrolment in a unit of study or active engagement in research at a specified point in time. is a component of the Graduate Outcomes Survey that will gather data from a graduate of undergraduate coursework or of postgraduate coursework about their experience of higher education in Australia. is an aggregated measure that will sum the EFTSL of all units of study for a course. is a classification that will indicate the status of a student in their admitted course. is a student that will either undertake an undergraduate course or a postgraduate course that is comprised of at least two-thirds coursework. is a unit of study that will have a number of credit points and must not include a major component of research. is an official document that will issue a credit to Macquarie University to offset against a future purchase from the supplier. is an alphanumeric code that will be allocated to a registered higher education provider on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students. is a set of duties that will be performed by a staff member as of the reference date and will either refer to their substantive appointment or a temporary appointment. is an applicant that will finalise their Year 12 study in the current calendar year or will have completed their Year 12 studies in the year prior to the course intake year. is an arrangement that will enable an eligible staff member to defer the payment of a proportion of their pre-tax salary for three years to ultimately fund a continuous paid absence of 24 weeks. is a cost that can be directly attributed to education or research or the provision of healthcare or other commercial endeavours of the Macquarie University Group such as commercial tenancy. is a subdivision of a department that will be responsible for the teaching of a unit of study and for the conduct of research. is a person that will discontinue their course either voluntarily or involuntarily on personal, academic, disciplinary, policy, regulatory, financial, or other grounds. is the register that will specify the combination of courses that are not permitted to be undertaken as a double degree since the two courses exceed the permitted limits for unit sharing. is an arrangement that will provide an early offer to an eligible applicant prior to the completion of an Australian Year 12 qualification or the International Baccalaureate and will include the Schools Recommendation Scheme and the Macquarie Leaders and Achievers. is an offer that will be issued to an eligible current school leaver prior to, and contingent on, their completion of an Australian Year 12 qualification or the International Baccalaureate. is a process that will check a work and may suggest changes beyond proofreading. is a wireless network that will allow a staff member and/or a researcher and/or a student from any participating university to securely access the internet of other participating universities by using the login credentials from their home university. is legislation that will supplement the Education Services for Overseas Students Act and will establish consistent standards across Australia to govern all English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students. is a type of work integrated learning that will involve the engagement of a student with industry or community for a minimum of one hour in a unit of study. is a place in a course that will be reserved for a student that is sponsored by an employer or an industry body via a restricted access arrangement. is a formal agreement that will specify the terms and conditions of employment between the Macquarie University Group and an individual staff member and will complement the relevant Enterprise Agreement. is an essential skill that must be possessed by a student to communicate successfully in written and spoken English throughout their study. is an English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students that is delivered via the Macquarie University College and will enable a student to meet the select English entry requirements to a number of courses at Macquarie University and must meet the ELICOS Standards. is an agreement that will outline the terms and conditions of employment within a select organisation or group of organisations including a range of matters such as rates of pay, employment conditions, consultative mechanisms and dispute resolution procedures, among others and must be approved by, and registered with, the Fair Work Commission. is the minimum criterion that must be satisfied by an applicant to qualify for admission into a nominated course and will enable Macquarie University to prioritise an offer to an eligible applicant. is a measure that will represent the proportion of the standard annual load that is undertaken by a student in an academic year or in a study period and equals the study load of a student divided by the standard annual load of the course. is a type of job requisition that will remain open in the applicant tracking system and will not typically close after one hire to reduce time to fill and to continually source a number of job applicants for high-turnover, seasonal, or frequently filled positions. is a period of time that will represent a portion of a study period after the teaching period during which final examinations are scheduled. is a leave balance that will have exceeded the excessive leave threshold of the industrial instrument for the specified leave type. is an accumulated amount of leave that will be considered excessive and will be specified in the industrial instrument. is a student that will participate in a formal exchange program between an Australian higher education provider and an overseas higher education provider. is a financial commitment that will require a future payment from a project and will either be a salary expenditure commitment or a purchase-to-pay expenditure commitment. is an attendance mode that will require a student to undertake study through predominantly electronic, online and correspondence-based attendance and may require attendance at the institution that is of an incidental, irregular, special, or voluntary nature such as for an in-person examination. is a type of revenue commitment that will require a future payment to a project by an external entity based on a documented agreement. is a commencing student that is new to Macquarie University and must be transferring from another higher education provider and is also a subset of new students. is a formal research collective that is established and governed by a faculty of Macquarie University and is funded predominantly by the faculty to conduct research in areas of relative strength and opportunity in alignment with the strategic research framework of the University and will be collaborative and cross-disciplinary in nature appropriate to the problem and disciplines. is the faculty that will be the steward of a course on behalf of Academic Senate. is a formal agreement that will specify all the obligations and all the deliverables that are expected of Macquarie University for a consultancy project or a contract research project and will be enforceable by law. is an enabling course that will be funded by the Australian government for a commonwealth supported student and will not count towards the student learning entitlement of the student. is the Commonwealth Assistance Form that must be submitted by a domestic student to request Commonwealth assistance via a commonwealth supported place in a FEE-FREE Uni Ready course. is a fee that will be charged to a domestic student with a domestic fee-paying place in an undergraduate course if any of the amount charged for a unit of study is deferred to FEE-HELP and equals 20 percent of the tuition fee. is a place in a course that will not be subsidised by the Australian Government and will require an enrolled student to pay the full tuition fee by the census date for any enrolled units of study within the course. is a student that will occupy a fee-paying place at an Australian higher education provider and will either be a domestic student or an international student. is a financial obligation that will either require a future payment to a project or from a project based on a documented agreement. is a financial obligation that will require a student to either pay the tuition fee or the student contribution and any student services and amenities fees. is an enrolment that will have a census date from 1st January to 30th June. is a status that will indicate a student is the first person in their immediate family to undertake higher education. is a unit of study that will enable customisation of a flexible zone in a select course and will be chosen by a student from all available units of study. is a type of work integrated learning that will involve the engagement of a student with industry or community for a minimum of 35 hours for a 10-credit point unit of study. is an employment contract that will specify the ordinary hours of work for a staff member to be 70 hours per fortnight and will either indicate the duration of employment as continuing employment or as fixed-term employment. is a project that will receive full funding from one or more external organisations to cover the specified costs of the project. is a type of work that will be performed by one or more staff members in respect of their current duties and will either be a teaching only function or a research only function or a teaching and research function or a technical industry commercial function or an other function. is a formal agreement that will stipulate the details of the funding and will outline all responsibilities of Macquarie University and all other entities in regards to the terms, conditions and obligations pertaining to that funding such as funding use and payment arrangements. is an amount of leave that is booked by an eligible staff member for a future period. is a form of artificial intelligence that is capable of generating content including, but not limited to, text, imagery, audio, and synthetic data. is a domestic student that will be assessed by Macquarie University as being eligible for continued Commonwealth assistance per the Higher Education Support Act and the Higher Education Administrative Information for Providers. is an international applicant that will be assessed by Macquarie University and by the Department of Home Affairs as being eligible to study in Australia on a student visa. is an admission pathway that will enable an eligible Year 11 student to study one or more approved units of study while still in high school and may provide an early offer with credit to a select number of undergraduate courses to a successful participant. is a tax that will be levied on most goods and services that are sold or consumed in Australia as per A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999. is a non-numerical result that will indicate the performance of a student against specified learning outcomes of an assessment task and a unit of study. is a completed student that is eligible for conferral and will be pending the conferral of their award and has no outstanding obligations to Macquarie University. is an online system that will process an application and will manage any related offers to graduate-entry medical schools for all domestic applicants. is a standardised test that will assess the capacity of a graduate to undertake postgraduate study in medical and health professional courses and will be administered by the Australian Council for Educational Research and will be an entry requirement for select postgraduate courses. is an annual survey that will form one component of QILT and will gather data about the short-term outcomes of higher education in Australia and may only be completed by a recent graduate and will be distributed to the graduate approximately four to six months after course completion. is a status of an eligible student that will recognise the existing student contribution bands from their course of study commencement date for any ongoing enrolment in their admitted course. is a research project that will be conducted by one or more researchers at Macquarie University with identified objectives set primarily by the researcher and will be funded by one or more external entities via a research grant. is an online system that will centralise information about all the research grants that are provided by the Australian government in accordance with the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Principles 2024. is an academic activity that will require collaboration between two or more students which may be assessed. is an admission pathway that will guarantee an offer to an eligible undergraduate course for an eligible domestic applicant if their selection rank is the same or above the guaranteed selection rank that is published by Macquarie University for that course. is the amount that will be available for a student to borrow under the Higher Education Loan Program for future study and will represent the unused proportion of the HELP loan limit. is the amount that will be deferred to HECS-HELP or to FEE-HELP for a unit of study or will be deferred to SA-HELP for the student services and amenities fee and equals the amount charged minus the amount paid up front plus any loan fee. is a level that will specify the minimum standards for a position that is occupied by a member of professional staff. is tertiary education that will offer select higher education awards through a university. is a government guideline that will support the implementation of the Higher Education Support Act and will assist an approved higher education provider to understand its obligations under the Higher Education Support Act and any other relevant legislation. is a financial arrangement that will enable an eligible domestic student with an Australian Tax File Number to defer the payment of a fee or to cover the cost of overseas study and will be repaid through the Australian Taxation Office. is a weighted average mark that will indicate the academic performance of a student across all qualifying units of study in a bachelor honours degree and will enable the award of an honours classification including Honours Class I, Honours Class II (Division 1), Honours Class II (Division 2), or Honours Class III. is a student that will either be an international exchange student or a student that is undertaking study abroad at Macquarie University in Australia. is a fee that may be charged by a higher education provider for goods and services related to studies as per the Higher Education Provider Guidelines and the Administrative Information for Providers and will be additional to the student contribution or the tuition fee. is a legal document that will specify the terms and conditions of employment and the minimum entitlements of an employee and will typically be a modern award or an enterprise agreement. is an organisation that will represent a specific industry or occupation and will support all registered members of that industry body. is a commonwealth supported place that will be in areas of national priority with strong industry linkages. is a prospective student that intends on becoming or has taken any steps towards becoming an international student on a student visa in Australia and is protected under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act. is a position within the Macquarie University Group that is intended for an existing staff member. is a job applicant that will have an existing work contract with the Macquarie University Group. is a job posting that will advertise a vacant position to all existing staff members of the Macquarie University Group either exclusively or as the first stage of recruitment before any external advertising. is an attendance mode that will require a student to undertake study through face-to-face attendance on a regular basis or on an agreed schedule for the purpose of supervision and/or instruction. is a type of income that will be provided internally from Macquarie University to contribute to a project. is a type of revenue commitment that will require a future payment to a project by an internal entity within Macquarie University such as from the DVCR or a faculty based on a documented agreement. is a standardised test that will assess the English language proficiency of an applicant and may be an entry requirement for a course. is an exchange student that will undertake study at an Australian higher education provider through an approved exchange program and will count the study as credit towards their course at their home higher education provider outside Australia. is a fee-paying place that must only be occupied by an international student. is the supervision of an examination that will have the purpose of maintaining academic integrity. is a generic role that will describe the nature of the work to be performed by a staff member and will be placed within one or more organisational units. is a person that will apply for a specific position in an organisation. is a formal request for employment that is submitted by a job applicant for a specific position and should contain information and documentation that is necessary for the employer to evaluate the suitability of the job applicant. is the date that will mark the commencement of a person in their appointment. is a set of related job profiles that will typically share a functional area within an organisation and will involve similar types of work and/or related knowledge, skills, and competencies. is a set of related job families that will typically share a strategic function within an organisation. is a formal invitation for employment that will be provided to an eligible job applicant by an employer to fill a specific position. is the name that is designated to a job posting within the Macquarie University Group and may differ from the position title and the job profile. is a structured outline of a job that will summarise the purpose of the role within an organisation and will specify the title of the job and the supervisory organisation and will describe the main tasks and the required education, skills, and competencies necessary to perform it. is an internal request that is used to recruit a person for a specified position. is a numeric code that will uniquely identify a language and will be sourced from the Australian Standard Classification of Languages. is the language that is predominantly spoken by a person at their residence. is a date that will be set by Macquarie University for each study period and will indicate the deadline for a student to withdraw from a unit of study without academic penalty. is a process that will enable an eligible staff member to accumulate leave from their first day of employment based on the number of ordinary hours worked to take annual leave and personal leave and long service leave. is a measure that will equal the total leave hours that are accrued by an eligible staff member for a given leave type. is a liability that must be paid to an eligible staff member upon employee termination and will include accrued annual leave and long service leave and time in lieu and accrued day off as per the relevant industrial instrument. is the official communication of an offer. is a classification that will categorise a course as an undergraduate course or as a postgraduate course or as a non-award course. is a classification that will distinguish all enrolments in a unit of study by the financial liability of the student in a course. is an SLE amount that can be accrued by an eligible person in addition to the ordinary SLE and any additional SLE and will either equal 3 EFTSL or an amount of EFTSL that is equivalent to the additional study a person is required to undertake to complete their course. is a physical location where Macquarie University will deliver a unit of study. is a form of leave that will recognise the length of continuous service by an eligible staff member within a particular entity of the Macquarie University Group. is an injury that is sustained in the workplace and will either result in fatality or in permanent disability or time that is lost from work of one or more days and/or one or more shifts. is an admission pathway that will provide an early offer to an eligible applicant based on their Year 11 academic achievements and extracurricular activities. is a paid research internship that will be available to a domestic student in an undergraduate course if the student is from a low socio-economic background or is a First Nations student and may be funded by the Australian Government. is the Enterprise Agreement that will apply to all relevant teaching staff members of Macquarie University College. is a formal research collective that is established and governed by the DVCR and is funded predominantly by the DVCR of Macquarie University to conduct research in areas of significant strength and opportunity in alignment with the strategic research framework of the University and will be collaborative and cross-disciplinary in nature appropriate to the problem and disciplines. is the formal process that may lead to a major research initiative if the bid is successful. is an initiative that will involve a partnership between a number of entities of which Macquarie University is one to pursue research that is long-term, large-scale and high-value and will typically lead to a cooperative research centre or a research centre of excellence or an ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre or an ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub. is the maximum amount of funding that will be allocated to an eligible higher education provider as a commonwealth contribution via the Commonwealth Grant Scheme. is a document that will outline the minimum terms and conditions of employment within a select industry or occupation on top of the National Employment Standards and will provide specified entitlements such as pay, hours of work, rosters, breaks, allowances, penalty rates, and overtime. is an attendance mode that will require a student to undertake study that is partially on an internal mode of attendance and on an external mode of attendance. is an online system that will enable a domestic student and a provider to view the available HELP balance and the SLE amount of a person. is a field of education that may be offered additional assistance by the Australian Government to encourage a prospect to study within that field of education. is a register that is maintained by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency and will list all accredited courses and all higher education providers in Australia that satisfy all the requirements of the Higher Education Standards Framework. is a government arrangement that will provide funding under the Higher Education Support Act to support an eligible student in a Commonwealth Supported Place from an underrepresented background to complete higher education and will complement Outreach Funding. is income that equals the total teaching income minus expenses that are related to teaching income such as scholarships and tuition services and fee waivers. is a commencing student that must be new to Macquarie University in the specified period of time. is an applicant that must not be a current school leaver. is a leave balance that is less than the excessive leave threshold of the industrial instrument for the specified leave type. is an international applicant that is not a genuine student (international). is a classification of research output that will not be a traditional research output and will include original creative works, live performances of creative works; curated or produced substantial public exhibitions and events, portfolios, recorded or rendered creative works, or research reports for an external body. is a standardised test that will assess the English language proficiency of an applicant and may be an entry requirement for a course. is a form of study that will enable a student to predominantly undertake their course away from the specified campus with some on-campus attendance as required. is an arrangement that will identify the delivery of an offshore course as a shared responsibility between Macquarie University and an external organisation. is an arrangement that will identify the delivery of an offshore course as the sole responsibility of Macquarie University. is an assessment task submission that will be received on, or before, the submission deadline. is the unique identification that will be allocated to all students and to all staff members by the Macquarie University Group to enable access to a number of systems and resources. is the standard SLE amount that will be allocated to a person in a Commonwealth Supported Place and equals 7 EFTSL. is a legal entity that will have defined objectives and will have an organisational structure and will consist of one or more people. is a diagram of the organisational structure that will show the relationship of each position and may show the names of people and/or business titles in each position. is a hierarchical arrangement of the organisation that will determine the channel of authority and will identify all managerial levels and all positions within each organisational unit. is a component of the organisational structure that will perform one or more functions and will have one or more staff members. is a document that must be submitted to Macquarie University by a Commonwealth Supported Student to request OS-HELP. is the study of a language that will prepare a domestic student for study in Asia via OS-HELP. is a function that will be performed by a member of professional staff and will not involve any research or teaching. is a government arrangement that will provide funding to an eligible higher education provider under the Higher Education Support Act to support a prospective student from an underrepresented background to access higher education and will complement Needs-Based Funding. is an assessment task submission that will not be received by the stipulated assessment task due date or within the duration of the unit delivery. is the department that will own a unit of study. is the faculty that will be the steward of a course or a unit of study. is a project that will receive partial funding from one or more external organisations to cover the specified costs of the project. is a type of research partnership project that will either be a contract research project or a collaborative research project. is a type of project that will involve a formal arrangement between Macquarie University and at least one external organisation to pursue a specified outcome in partnership with clear objectives, expectations and deliverables. is a classification that will group all patents that cover the same, or similar, technical content. is a fortnightly schedule that will determine the frequency of payment to a staff member and will have a beginning date and an ending date. is a standardised test that will assess the English language proficiency of an applicant and may be an entry requirement for a course. is funding that will be allocated to an eligible higher education provider for meeting specified performance requirements around teaching and student support and will be additional to the maximum basic grant amount of the Commonwealth Grant Scheme. is the address that will be the permanent residence of a person and may differ from their contact address. is a form of leave that will enable an eligible staff member with continuing employment or fixed-term employment to be absent from work for an allotted number of days in a calendar year without losing pay in addition to their accrued annual leave and may be accessed for range of leave types as per the relevant industrial instrument. is a measure that will represent the subjective wellbeing of a person. is a form of work integrated learning that will temporarily place a student with an organisation to obtain professional experience. is conduct that will involve advertently or inadvertently passing off the structure or ideas or manner of expressing them from one or more pre-existing sources as one's own in an academic exercise. is a progression that will follow the typical transition of a position from creation through its active, vacant, and modified states, to eventual closure. is an ongoing process that will govern a position through each stage of the position life cycle. is the name that is designated to a position within the Macquarie University Group and may differ from the job profile. is a unit of study that will have a unit level of 6000 to 8000 to meet the requirements of a postgraduate course. is a unit of study that will be identified as a prospective unit for work integrated learning. is a person that will have accepted a job offer and has not yet commenced their employment in the position. is the chief investigator that will be accountable for a research project. is a specified period of time that will involve the observation of an employee who is new to a job to assess their suitability for all requirements of the position. is a process that is used by Macquarie University to select a supplier for the provision of goods and services. is a type of course that will require a student to undertake specified units of study to be able to register as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and will either lead to a bachelor degree or a bachelor honours degree. is a type of unit of study that will be compulsory in a professional pathway psychology course and will have an FOE code starting with 0907 in the study area of Behavioural Science and will receive additional funding as an increased Commonwealth contribution and will lower the student contribution for a student in that course in comparison to a commencing student that is undertaking the same unit of study outside the professional pathway psychology course. is a type of course that will require a student to undertake specified units of study to be able to register as a social worker, youth worker, counsellor or community worker and will either lead to a bachelor degree or a bachelor honours degree or a masters degree. is a type of unit of study that will be compulsory in a professional pathway social work course and will have an FOE code starting with 0905 in the study area of Human Welfare Studies and Services and will receive additional funding as an increased Commonwealth contribution and will lower the student contribution for a student in that course in comparison to a commencing student that is undertaking the same unit of study outside the professional pathway social work course. is a staff member that will have an employment contract that is covered by the Professional Staff Enterprise Agreement and will typically provide professional, administrative, technical, or other support services. is the Enterprise Agreement that will apply to all relevant professional staff of Macquarie University. is a process that will evaluate the technical correctness of a written work and may identify errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. is a person that may engage with an organisation as their potential employer and has not yet submitted a job application. is a person that will have expressed interest in studying at Macquarie University. is an academic organisation that will either be an approved higher education provider or an approved provider of vocational education and training. is a numeric code that will uniquely identify a higher education provider or a provider of vocational education and training and will be sourced from the Higher Education VET and PIR provider codes and names. is a temporary SLE amount that will be awarded to a commonwealth supported student in a postgraduate course and will be transferred to additional SLE after their enrolment in a unit of study is reported to the Australian Government as a commonwealth supported place. is a type of expenditure commitment that will require a future payment from a project such as a purchase order. is a research management system that is used at Macquarie University. is the budget that will record the expenditure of a project in Pure. is a non-excessive leave balance that will be less than one week of the excessive leave threshold. is the suggested level of knowledge that will be advantageous for a student to acquire prior to enrolment in select courses and in select units of study to better prepare the student for study within a specific discipline. is an approved study load that will reduce the minimum study load for an eligible international student in a study period. is a process that will acknowledge the sources from which specific ideas, facts, theories, evidence, or any other information have been obtained using a standardised referencing style and will identify the original authors or creators of the material. is a set of rules that will specify the information that is required to acknowledge the intellectual work of authors and creators. is a University Study Hub that will improve access to higher education for an eligible student in regional and remote areas of Australia. is a provider that will deliver vocational education and training. is a process that will refund a student contribution or a tuition fee to an eligible domestic student and will typically result from a special consideration and will either directly repay the fee to the student or credit the HELP balance of the student if the fee is deferred to HECS-HELP or to FEE-HELP. is a geographical classification that is published in the Australian Statistical Geography Standard to distinguish a location in Australia and to assign a remoteness class according to its relative geographic access to services and road distance to urban centres as derived from the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA). is a classification that will be assigned to a geographical area based on its relative remoteness per the Australian Statistical Geography Standard. is a formal agreement that will enable the provision of research and will be between Macquarie University and one or more external organisations and will have identified obligations for each organisation and must be signed by a delegated official of Macquarie University and will be enforceable by law. is a recognised entity that will comprise a group of researchers with a shared vision and will conduct, support and/or encourage research in areas of significant strength and opportunity in alignment with the strategic research framework of the University and with a joint approach to solving complex disciplinary/cross-disciplinary problems that will result in emergent outcomes that could not be accomplished in the absence of the collective. is data that will be collected or observed or generated or created through the conduct of research and may include, but is not limited to, primary materials or information held in any digital format or media, or anything that can be digitised, on which an argument, theory, test or hypothesis, or another research output is based. is the amount that is devoted to research and experimental development. is a funding agreement that will provide a legal framework for the funding of research at Macquarie University. is an appointed staff member that will promote the responsible conduct of research and will provide advice to those with concerns or complaints about potential breaches of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and the Macquarie University Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. is an online system that will facilitate the administration of research and will manage the life cycle of a research grant and a research project. is a form of misconduct that will breach the Macquarie University Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and/or the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and will involve the failure of a researcher to meet the principles and responsibilities set out by the codes and is serious and also intentional or reckless or negligent. is a function that will be performed by a member of academic staff and will primarily involve research and/or the management and leadership of research staff, and of staff who support research staff. is a hierarchical classification that will categorise a research output by its form and either as a traditional research output or a non-traditional research output and is derived from the Higher Education Research Data Collection and the guidelines of Excellence in Research for Australia. is a partnership project that will either actively pursue research or indirectly foster a research opportunity for Macquarie University. is a project that will involve research and is expected to produce a research output or to create new knowledge. is an organisational unit that will be headed by a manager who is responsible for its activities and results and will formalise accountability within an organisation for any revenue that is generated and any cost that is incurred. is an arrangement that will be between a higher education provider and an employer or industry body for the provision of one or more places in a course and will restrict admission in that place to an employee of the employer or industry body. is a financial commitment that will require a future payment to a project. is a scholarship that will be administered by a higher education provider as part of the research training program to support an eligible graduate research student with the costs associated with research training and will include the RTP Allowance, RTP Fees Offset, and RTP Stipend. is a type of expenditure commitment that will require a future payment from a project to a staff member that is appointed to the project with continuing employment and/or with fixed-term employment. is an amount that may be paid in addition to the standard salary for a position. is a financial arrangement that will support an eligible student to defray all or some of the costs of study. is an admission pathway that will provide an early offer to an eligible applicant based on their Year 11 academic achievements and the rating of an applicant's aptitude by their school and is processed via the Universities Admissions Centre. is an enrolment that will have a census date from 1 July to 31st December. is a numerical rank that will enable Macquarie University to assess the eligibility of an applicant for an undergraduate course and for specified enabling courses and may be derived from the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank or the UAC Rank or the results of the Special Tertiary Admissions Test or the results of an eligible overseas qualification plus any adjustment factors. is a form of plagiarism that will involve the resubmission of a work or major part thereof that has already been assessed to be assessed again without authorisation. is the amount of Student Learning Entitlement that will be available to a Commonwealth supported student at any particular time and will sum the amount of ordinary SLE plus any additional SLE and any lifelong SLE and will be reduced by any study that is undertaken by the student in a Commonwealth Supported Place. is a request that may be submitted by an eligible student to request a waiver of one or more requisites for a specific unit of study or to request permission to enrol in a special unit of study such as research projects, PACE units or special interest topics. is a standardised test that will assess the aptitude of an applicant for tertiary study and is an alternative to the ATAR for admission into a select number of courses at Macquarie University and will be administered by the Australian Council for Educational Research. is the OneID that will uniquely identify an individual staff member. is a government publication that will assign a country code to each country and will group neighbouring countries for statistical purposes and will be available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. is a standard measure that will specify the number of academic years for a full-time student to complete a specified course and must not exceed the course of study load and equals the total credit points for the course divided by the total annual credit points for the course. is a type of course that will foster entrepreneurialism and will enable a student to develop skills, capabilities and connections for the purposes of a startup business and may either be an award course or a non-award course. is a Higher Education Loan Program that will enable an eligible student to defer the payment of their fees for a Startup Year course. is a document that will confirm the status of enrolment of a coursework student at the time the letter is written. is an arrangement that will enable an eligible person with a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care (or equivalent) to attain a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) with a shorter standard course duration and with less credit points and will include a placement and is funded by the NSW Government's Early Learning Diploma to Degree (ELDD) initiative. is a person that must either accept an offer or be admitted to a course or be enrolled in at least one unit of study. is the group of students that will commence a course of study in a particular year with a higher education provider. is the fee that will be charged to a Commonwealth supported student for a unit of study and must be paid before the census date and may be deferred to HECS-HELP by an eligible domestic student. is a framework that is published by the Department of Education to enable the consistent evaluation of equity initiatives across higher education. is an annual sample survey that will form one component of QILT and will gather data from an enrolled student about the experience of higher education in Australia. is an entitlement that is granted under the Higher Education Support Act and will limit the subsidised study that can be consumed by a Commonwealth supported student in a Commonwealth Supported Place. is a progression that will track the typical transition of a person as they engage with Macquarie University from a prospective student through an applicant and a student and a completed student and a graduate. is the OneID that will uniquely identify an individual student and will be allocated by Macquarie University. is an additional fee that will be charged to an enrolled student per study period at a full-time or part-time rate at census date to fund student services and amenities of a non-academic nature and may only be deferred through SA-HELP by an eligible student. is an authorisation that will permit an eligible international student to study in Australia and to reside temporarily in Australia as defined by the Migration Act 1958. is an arrangement that may enable a student to count any overseas study as credit towards their course at their home higher education provider outside of a formal exchange program and will require the student to pay the fee that is imposed by the overseas higher education provider for the study. is a measure that will represent the amount of study that is undertaken by a student in an academic year or in a specified study period and equals the total number of credit points for a coursework student or the total number of days for a graduate research student. is a period of time that will mark a portion of the academic year during which a unit of study is offered and will have a start date and an end date and will consist of a teaching period and an assessment period. is a University Study Hub that will improve access to higher education for an eligible student that is living in outer metropolitan and peri-urban areas of Australia. is a type of organisational unit that is responsible for a position and is used to group workers under a manager and to define reporting lines as part of the management hierarchy within the organisational structure of the Macquarie University Group. is a biennial survey that is administered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to collect data about higher education expenditure on R&D in a calendar year in Australia. is an approved break from study that will permit an international student on a student visa to temporarily suspend all their studies on the grounds of compassionate or compelling circumstances that are supported by documentary evidence and will be bound by the Education Services for Overseas Students Framework. is a numerical form of identification that will be issued by the Australian Taxation Office and will be used for the purposes of tax and superannuation and to take out a Higher Education Loan Program. is a function that will be performed by a member of academic staff and will involve both teaching and research and/or the management and leadership of teaching staff and research staff, and persons who support such staff. is the department that will teach all or part of a unit of study. is the faculty that will teach all or part of a unit of study. is a function that will be performed by a member of academic staff and will primarily involve teaching and/or the management and leadership of teaching staff, and of staff who support teaching staff. is a period of time that will represent a portion of a study period during which teaching and learning activities are scheduled. is a function that will be performed by a member of academic staff and will primarily involve non-traditional academic activities and at least 40 percent of either teaching or research. is a one-off amount that will be paid from Services Australia to assist an eligible domestic student from an outer regional, remote or very remote area with the additional costs of relocating more than 90 minutes from their home to undertake full-time study at or above Certificate IV. is an agency that will process an application and will manage any related offers in select undergraduate courses and select postgraduate courses on behalf of all participating universities in the relevant state across Australia. is a system that will collect data about all students and all applicants and all staff members from all Australian higher education providers and all Australian VET providers. is a standardised test that will measure the English language proficiency of an applicant and may be an entry requirement for a course. is an arrangement that will enable an eligible staff member to take paid time off work in lieu of overtime payment for any additional hours that are worked in excess of their specified contract hours. is a classification of research output that will include published research books, book chapters, journal articles, patents, and conference papers. is the fee that will be charged to a fee-paying student for a unit of study and must be paid by the census date and may be deferred to FEE-HELP by an eligible domestic student and will be set by the Australian higher education provider and will be regulated by the Education Services for Overseas Students Framework. is a government entity that will support all international students on a student visa and any eligible domestic students if their higher education provider is unable to fully deliver their course of study. is conduct that will involve the sharing, selling, or passing of a file to another person or entity without authorisation. is conduct that will involve the use of material that is produced by a generative artificial intelligence without authorisation or acknowledgement and is submitted in whole or in part as one's own work in an academic exercise. is a leave balance that will be greater than one week below the excessive leave balance. is a unit of study that will have a unit level of 1000 to 5000 to meet the requirements of an undergraduate course. is a project that will not receive any funding from an external organisation to cover the specified costs of the project. is a survey that will collect data about the organisation and capacity of professional staff to deliver services at Macquarie University to enable benchmarking against other participating higher education providers. is a document that will provide information about a unit of study to a student including the unit learning outcomes and specified assessment tasks. is the date that will mark the commencement of a student in a unit of study. is a unit of study that will meet the requirements of both courses in a double degree or the requirements of two course components in the one course or the requirements of a course and an external major within the flexible zone of the course. is a facility that will improve access to higher education and will enable an eligible student to study with any participating higher education provider by distance while remaining in their local community and will either be a Regional University Study Hub or a Suburban University Study Hub. is tertiary education that will offer select awards through a registered training organisation between Certificate I to an Advanced Diploma to provide practical knowledge and technical skills for work. is a repayment towards a Higher Education Loan Program that may be made by a person to the Australian Taxation Office in excess of the minimum compulsory repayment amount. is a strategy that will enhance equitable access to higher education and to improve academic progression via multiple initiatives at Macquarie University for an eligible prospective student or an eligible student from a low socio-economic background or for a First Nations student and may receive funding from the Australian Government. is a unit of study that will meet all the criteria for work integrated learning and must incorporate a placement or a project or fieldwork or a simulation/virtual or other learning activity. is the full-time equivalent that will be expended by a staff member and equals the total hours of work that are performed by the staff member as a proportion of the contracted FTE for that position at a specified 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