{"id":14810,"date":"2020-10-20T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2020-10-20T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:51:51","slug":"student-progress-policy-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2020\/10\/20\/student-progress-policy-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Progress Policy consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New draft Student Progress Policy and procedures have been developed as part of Flinders&#8217; Retention and Success Strategy, with staff feedback now invited.<\/p>\n<p>The draft policy and procedures are intended to ensure students are effectively supported to move through their course towards completion, but also to provide a procedurally fair and transparent process for review when it becomes apparent a student is experiencing difficulty progressing.<\/p>\n<p>They will replace the current Student Progress Policy. Improvements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>simplifying and unifying overlapping criteria<\/li>\n<li>removing punitive and ambiguous labels that may not be self-apparent to students<\/li>\n<li>applying University-wide criterion to improve accuracy and consistency in early identification of students experiencing difficulty progressing<\/li>\n<li>Clear roles, responsibilities and authorities to enable transparency, consistent process, and procedural fairness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The draft policy and procedures can be viewed via the Flinders Policy Library <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/policies\/comment-draft-policies\">here<\/a>. Comments can be emailed to <a href=\"mailto:policyandsecretariat@flinders.edu.au\">policyandsecretariat@flinders.edu.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback closes Wednesday, 28 October 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New draft Student Progress Policy and procedures have been developed as part of Flinders&#8217; Retention and Success Strategy, with staff feedback now invited. The draft policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":10551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7180],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}