[Unistats] Commencement date for RTS students who have upgraded or downgraded

[Roni McDowell]

Dear Andrea,

My understanding is as follows:

For students upgrading from a Masters to a PHD (same project) the commence date will be the date you determine the student commences the PHD.  These students will have a separation status code of 2 - upgrading.

A student transferring from a Phd to a Masters (same project) will have the commence date of the PhD and a separation status code of 3 - downgrading.  

Students moving from one program to another at the same level will have a new commence date only if it is a new project.  If this is a new project they will have a separation status of 1 - transfer. 

In this way the integrity of the commence date rules is maintained and DEST can track students who are moving between programs in the RTS and not count students with a separation status of 2 in the calculation of separations.  I hope this helps.

Roni



Roni McDowell
Head, Statistics and Reporting Unit
Planning Group
RMIT Collection Coordinator
RMIT University
Phone:  03 9925 4077
Mobile: 0417554033
Fax: 03 9639 1941


>>> Andrea Matulick <andrea.matulick@adelaide.edu.au> 17/06/2002 1:07:39 pm >>>
Hi all,

We are curious what commencement date other institutions have reported
for RTS students who have upgraded or downgraded their enrolment
(Masters to PhD or vice versa). DEST's documentation on commencing
students (and commencing RTS students) has been re-written. It is not
specific, but seems to suggest the date of the transfer should be
reported as the commencement date. Our student records system is
currently set to give us the original commencement date for these
students.

Does anyone else see this as a problem?


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