While applicants should place the courses they most want to undertake among their highest preferences, those applicants who do not have a strong academic record should also consider including some less competitive courses.
Postgraduate Courses Method of Application
Applicants seeking entry to postgraduate courses at QIT in 1987 must apply on the prescribed application for admission form 'P' available in October 1986 direct to QIT enclosing an officially certified statement of academic record of all tertiary studies undertaken. (Degree certificates are not sufficient). Applications for these courses are not processed through QT AC.
Closing Date tor Applications
Applications close on 10 December 1986. Applications if accepted for consideration after this date may be subject to late fees.
Postbasic Nursing Courses
These courses, which are designed for experienced registered nurses, are not available to school leavers. Application should be made on the prescribed form available on request from the Registrar.
Applicants must provide full details of secondary schooling, nursing qualifications and relevant experience. Applications for entry in 1987 to the Diploma courses and the bachelors degree course will close on 30 September 1986.
Certificate Courses
No new enrolments in certificate courses at QIT will be accepted. Sub- tertiary courses are now conducted by the Division of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) of the Queensland Education Department.
Unregistered Students
Persons wishing to undertake miscellaneous subjects as distinct from a complete course may apply to enrol as unregistered students and need not compete for a quota place in the course proper.
Unregistered Students include the following categories:
(a) Professional Development Course Students
Students attending normal classes in award course subjects who normally satisfy pre-requisite study requirements, attempt Institute Examinations and are awarded Institute examination results.
(b) Miscellaneous Students
Students attending normal award course subjects under special approval arrangements, for example, to satisfy Institute entry requirements, to satisfy provisional enrolment requirements, to complete a second or subsequent strand of an Institute course or to complete a course offered by another institution.
(c) Visiting Students
Students attending normal award course subjects for interest sake. Such students need not satisfy pre-requisite study require- ments and are not awarded normal Institute Examination results or credit towards an Institute course award.
Students intending to apply for admission to a course proper are not considered unregistered students and must follow the application procedures outlined previously.
Method of Application
Applicants seeking to enrol as unregistered students should apply direct to QIT on the prescribed application for admission form 'U' available in October 1986, enclosing documentary evidence of all secondary and tertiary studies undertaken.
Closing Date for Applications
Applications for enrolment in both Autumn and Spring Semesters close on 9 January 1987. Applications, if accepted for consideration after this date, may be subject to late fees. The application procedure must be repeated prior to the commencement of each year in which it is desired to enrol as an unregistered student. Re-enrolment forms are not automatically forwarded to unregistered students.
Continuing Education
Details of special programs and short courses offered in a wide variety of subject areas are contained in the booklet 'Continuing Education' available on request from the Registrar. These courses are not offered by the Institute on an official basis, but directly by the departments concerned. In many cases a small tuition fee is charged.
CHANGING COURSES:
ADMISSION WITH ADVANCED STANDING Students New to the Institute
Applicants new to the QIT seeking admission with credit for study undertaken at another institution must apply for quota entry through the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre. Exemptions from particular subjects will be considered after the offer of a quota place is accepted.
Entry into the second and later years of a course, outside of the QT AC system is only available to QIT students who have completed all first year subjects of the proposed new course as part of another QIT course.
Current QIT students
Current QIT students wishing to change courses or attendance type from part-time to full-time where such change involves undertaking any first year subject in the proposed new course, or seeking to escalate to higher level courses (i.e. who will have completed a certificate or associate diploma course by the end of 1986 and wish to enter a bachelors degree course in 1987) must apply for quota entry to the
course in accordance with the procedures outlined above for new students.
Where the proposed course or attendance change does not involve undertaking any first year subject in the proposed new course, the student should make application direct to QIT on the prescribed application tor admission form 'R/A', before the closing date 9 January 1987.
RE-ADMISSION FOLLOWING A PERIOD OF NON-ATTENDANCE
Students at OIT are expected to proceed through their courses without interruption. Those who have not completed all first year subjects may apply for leave of absence from the course tor a period of one or two semesters. At the end of the period tor which leave is granted such students are forwarded re-enrolment forms automatically by the Enrol- ments Section of the Institute.
All other students who discontinue a course and later seek to re-register in the same course with the same attendance type (part-time/full-time) following a period of lapsed enrolment, provided they are clear of their first year program, may apply tor admission direct to QIT on the prescribed application tor admission form 'R/ A', before the closing date, 9 January 1987. Students seeking re-admission following lapsed enrol- ment of whatever duration, who are not clear of all first year subjects of the course for which they seek re-entry and who have not been granted leave of absence, must apply again through QTAC tor a place in the quota.
RE-ADMISSION FOLLOWING GROSS FAILURE
A student seeking re-admission to the same course, or to any other course from which he has been excluded from further enrolment as a result of gross failure must make written application to the Registrar not later than two months prior to the commencement of classes in the semester in which re-enrolment is sought. Applicants need not apply through the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre unless seeking entry to a course from which they are not excluded.