Policies & Procedures

Shafston provides students and staff with a collection of document to allow them access to information about the college, it's policies and procedures documenting how to resolve situations that may arise while at Shafston. You are invited to download any of these by using the links below.

• Academic and general misconduct (35kb, PDF)
  This document describes the policy and procedure for dealing with academic and general misconduct
• Attendance Flow Chart (29kb, PDF)
  This doucument contains a flow chart detailing the process for attendance monitoring and reporting
• Code of Ethics (55kb, PDF)
  This document provides details on the Shafston code of ethics
• Code of Practice (30kb, PDF)
  This document provides details on the Shafston code of practice
• Complaints and Appeals Policy and Procedure (71kb, PDF)
  This document contains information regarding to the complaints and appeals policy and procedure
• Course Progress Notice (54kb, PDF)
  This document relates to how students can maintain satisfactory academic course progress
• Critical Incident Policy (55kb, PDF)
  This document describes the policy regarding critical incidents
• Deferral Policy (26kb, PDF)
  This document describes the policy regarding student deferral of a course
• Deferring, suspending or cancelling Policy and Procedure (50kb, PDF)
  This document describes the policy regarding student deferral, suspension and cancellation of a course
• DEEWR-DIAC Course Progress Policy (282kb, PDF)
  This document is the Australian Government course progress policy and relates directly to the Shafston VET Course Progress Policy and Procedure
• Grievance Appeals Policy (47kb, PDF)
  This document provides information on the grievance appeals policy
• Refund Policy 2012 (180kb, PDF)
  This document provides information pertaining to the issuing of refunds
• Student Agreement (44kb, PDF)
  This document contains the student agreement that must be completed before studing at Shafston
• Suspension and Exclusion Policy and Procedure (35kb, PDF)
  This document provides information regarding suspension and exclusion
• Transfer Policy (47kb, PDF)
  This document provides information for students looking to transfer between providers or courses
• VET Attendance Policy and Procedure (44kb, PDF)
  This document relates to students studying Vocational Education and Training Courses and the monitoring of student attendance in VET courses.
• VET Course Progress Policy Procedure (71kb, PDF)
  This document relates to students studying Vocational Education and Training Courses and their requirement to maintain satisfactory course progress and the procedure that Shafston will follow to monitor each student's academic course progress.

Government Legislation & Frameworks

Shafston also provides a selection of documents relating to government legislation and frameworks it follows while providing courses to students. These documents are useful for international students as a condensed version of documents available online from various Australian government agencies. You are invited to download any of these by using the links below.

• Anti Discrimination (53kb)
  This document provides information regarding Anti Discrimination policies
• AQF first Edition (2mb)
  This document provides policies and ojectives for the governing and monitoring arrangements for the Australia Qualifications Framework
• EEO (46kb)
  This document provides information regarding the Equal Employment Opportunities at Shafston
• Legislation - General (22kb)
  This document provides general information regarding legislation applicable to Shafston
• National Code 2007 (250kb)
  This document contains the national code of practice for registration authorities and providers of education and training to overseas students
• Privacy Legislation (28kb)
  This document contains information regarding Shafston's privacy legislation