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Academic Standing
Academic Statement
Academic Transcript
Accreditation
Admission
Advanced Disciplinary Courses
Advanced Standing
Allocation Rule - course
AQF (Australian Qualifications Framework)
AQF Qualification
Articulated Programs
Articulation Arrangement
Assessment
Assumed Knowledge
ATAR cut-off
Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (AHEGS)
Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR):
Award Qualification
Bachelor
Block Credit
Breadth/Breadth and Maturity Learning Outcomes
Campus
Capstone Course
Career
Census Date
Class
Cognate Course
Cognate Discipline
Co-Major
Combined Degree Program
Commonwealth Supported Place
Concurrent
Convenor (Course)
Core Course
Co-Requisite
Course
Course Authority
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
Course Level
Course Sharing
Coursework
Credit
Credit Outcomes
Credit Transfer
CRICOS Register
Cross-Career Program
Cross-Faculty
Cross-Institutional Study

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Deferment / Deferral
Degree
Depth
Disciplinary Core/Discipline-Specific Core
Discipline
Doctorate / Doctoral Program
Domestic Student (Local Student)
Double Counting
Double Major
Dual Award Program
EFTSL (Equivalent Full-time Study Load)
Elective
Embedded Honours Program
Enrolment Appointment
Examiner
Exchange Student
Exclusion (Academic Standing)
Exclusion (Course Requirements)
Exemption
External Articulation
Faculty
Formal Learning
Foundation Course
Free Elective
Full-Time

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Gateway Course
General Education (Course Requirements)
Grades
Graduand
Graduate
Graduate Capabilities (Attributes)
Home Faculty
Honours
Informal/Workplace Learning
Institution
Inter-Faculty
Internal Program Transfer
International Student (Overseas Student)

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Learning Outcomes
Level (Courses)
Local Student
Location

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Major
Mark
Masters
Masters (Extended) Programs
Minor
Non-Award Enrolment
Non-Formal Learning
Offering
Overseas Student

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Part-Time
PhD
Plan
Postgraduate Coursework
Postgraduate Programs
Postgraduate Research
Potential Graduand
Pre-Requisite
Prescribed
Prescribed Course
Prescribed Elective
Prior Stage
Prizes
Program
Program Authority
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Program Rules
Program Structure
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Referee
Research
Restricted Elective

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Satisfactory Academic Performance
Semester
Separate Year Honours Programs
Sequence of Study
School (Department)
Skills
Specialisation
Specified Credit
Stage
Stream
Student Contribution Band
Student Contribution Charge
Student Contributions
Study Abroad Student
Study Load
Subject
Substitution
Substitution Rule
Supplementary Transcript
Teaching Period
Testamur
Undeclared Major
Undergraduate
Unipass
Unit of Credit (UOC)
Unspecified Credit
Upper Level Course

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Volume of Learning
Weighted Average Mark (WAM)
Workload Expectation
ZPass

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Postgraduate Research Study

Non-Award Study

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