Welcome to Professor Schelluch from Monash South Africa campus and Professor Walter Wong, Malaysia campus.

Ms Natalie Mitchell, Mr David Eckstein, Ms Jodie Burgess, Deputy Principal Student Experience, Monash College (for Sue Bell), Mr Gerard Toohey (for Peter Yates)

 Professor Jayne Godfrey, Ms Sue Bell, Mr Peter Yates

Certain items appearing in the agenda have been marked with an asterisk. These are items that appear to need discussion by the committee. Items that do not appear to need discussion are unstarred.

Items may be starred prior to the meeting by contacting the Secretary, or at this point in the meeting.  Items of other business will be called for at this point.

That the unstarred items on the agenda be adopted without discussion and that the actions recommended be taken or the information therein note

That the Minutes of Education Committee Meeting 1/2008, held on 5 March 20087, be confirmed.

http://www.monash.edu.au/teaching/passport/

Discussion will include:

• Berwick selective entry secondary school
• Implications of volunteer network and internship policy
• Not for profit agreements
• Honours enrolment targets

The following items were considered by Academic Board meetings 1/2008 and 2/2008, held on held 17 February and 16 April.

Course Structure Policy and Procedures

• Academic Board adopted the Course Structure Policy as being largely a codification of existing practice and to enable the enrolment of students.
• Academic Board referred the issue of “what is a Masters degree?” to Education Committee for preliminary discussion and return to the Board for debate at an appropriate stage.  A partial response to this was considered at Academic Board meeting 2-08 with consideration of the Briefing Paper: Coursework Masters at Monash in Australian and International Contexts (attached to this agenda).
• Noted the Course Structure Procedures

The Board agreed to amend the draft ESOS Student under Age 18 Policy and ESOS Student Transfer between Registered Providers Policy to extend the policies’ coverage to the offshore campuses, by including in the definition of “international student” to include “a person within/outside Australia who holds a student visa as defined by the ESOS Act” and include a reference to the Migration Regulations.

Academic Board approved with amendment the:

• ESOS Student under Age 18 Policy,
• ESOS Student Transfer between Registered Providers Policy;
  and noted the accompanying Procedures.

• Academic Board noted the Intervention Strategy Procedures.
• Academic Board noted the Student Load report summary which indicated that as at 31 March, overall Monash is ‘forecast to be 0.6% above its planned target across all fund sources.
• Academic Board noted the briefing paper on Coursework Masters at Monash in Australian and International Contexts(attached and noted in 6.1 above)

That Education Committee receive and note the report of meeting 2/2008 of the Education Policy and Programs Committee.

That Education Committee:

• endorse the proposed amendment to Statute 6.1.2 – Courses and Degrees for transmission to Academic Board
•  endorse the repeal of Statute 6B.1 Multi-faculty Degrees as part of the Miscellaneous Statutes review process.

That Education Committee

• endorse the Course and Unit Handbook Policy  for transmission to Academic Board;
• approve the Course and Unit Handbook Procedures

Attached are the reports of Education Technology Committee meetings 1-08 and 2-08 held on 14 February and 11 March. 

A document on the conversion table will be circulated prior to the meeting.

Members and recipients of this agenda are asked to note this item is CONFIDENTIAL.

Documents attached:

• Briefing Paper
• Policy and Procedures document

That Education Committee:

• endorse the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy for transmission to Academic Board
• approve the  Admission to Undergraduate Programs Procedures.

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS WITHIN THE EDUCATION PORTFOLIO

That Education Committee:

• note the introduction of an annual Academic Plan Implementation Report which will assist Education Committee monitor the implementation of education strategies for which it is responsible;
• note the reduction of education policies and procedures compliance audits from two to one per year;
• note that arrangements for the biannual course and units reports remain unchanged;
• approve the timing of Academic Plan Implementation reporting in late November;
• determine whether the annual education policies and procedures compliance audit shall take place in April or in May.  

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OTHER BUSINESS

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BIANNUAL FACULTY REPORTS ON APPROVED COURSE AND UNIT DEVELOPMENTS

A summary of all received reports has been sent separately to the agenda as an addendum.

At the time of printing, reports from nine faculties have been received, with the exception of Art and Design.

Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Business and Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Information Technology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Faculty of Science
Victorian College of Pharmacy