Definitions

For the purposes of this document—

'Chair of the Academic Board' includes any person nominated by the Chair to act on their behalf in relation to a specific appeal;

'dean' includes the associate dean in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics and any person nominated by the dean to act on their behalf in relation to a specific appeal;

'guild education officer'—The Guild as the student representative body on campus, employs staff to act as Education Officers whose role is to provide independent information, advice and support to students;

'head of school' includes any person acting in the capacity of the head of the school;

'mechanism for assessment' is the means by which the final result is calculated, as described in the Assessment Mechanism Statement;

'process of assessment' is the process of marking by one or more assessors;

'senior academic' is an academic at senior lecturer level or above, or an academic of lecturer status who has held full-time teaching/research positions at this University for at least ten years;

'sub-dean' includes sub-deans and the appropriate associate dean in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; the sub-dean in the Faculty of Business*; the Senior Faculty Administrative Officer in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; the Student Adviser in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Academic Student Adviser in the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences; and the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Education.

* Note: The Statutory entity, the Faculty of Business, is known as the UWA Business School.