SECTION 8: APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1:
UNIVERSITY GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SELECTION
1.6.1 The selection committee shall consider applicants for selection at the year or level of the course which is determined in accordance with the relevant course regulation and any working rules3 of the faculty.
1.6.2 To the extent necessary to establish the year or level for which an applicant is to be considered for selection, credit to be granted for work done in other courses may be determined in accordance with Regulation 3.3 and any working rules, if the faculty has not provided otherwise for such a determination.
1.6.3 Unless the applicant has specified otherwise, any applicant found to be ineligible for selection at a particular level shall be considered for selection at the highest level for which the applicant is eligible.
2. Selection
2.2 Pursuant to the following principles and to any special principles ap- proved by Council, the selection committee shall identify those eligible applicants who are considered most likely to pursue successfully the course concerned. Such applicants shall be ranked by the selection com- mittee and places shall be offered in accordance with such ranking until the places available4 have been filled.
2.1.1 Selection shall be based primarily on academic merit as judged by reference to the whole academic record of the applicant.
2.1.2 In establishing the relative likelihood of success of any applicant, a selection committee may, at its discretion, take into account:
(a) the age of an applicant when completing part of or all of a course of study relied on as qualifying the applicant for admission and the peri- od of time which has passed since completion of those studies;
(b) any illness, war or military service, or serious hardship as a result of which the studies or examination performance of an applicant have, in the opinion of the committee, been adversely affected;
(c) physical handicaps or disabilities;
(d) reports from persons with relevant professional qualifications, where those reports may assist the selection committee in evaluating the effect of factors referred to in paragraph (b) or (c);
(e) the applicant's reasons for wishing to pursue the course;
(f) any work or research experience which, in the opinion of the selection committee, may be relevant to the proposed course of study;
•(g) any other matters specified in the special principles of selection of the course for which selection is sought.
' 2.1.3 A selection committee may conduct interviews to elucidate the matters referred to in section 2.1.2 above or for such purposes as may be provided for in special principles of selection.
" Makes provision for Special Principles to be proposed
1 Pursuant to Statute 2.3 (The Academic Board), the Academic Board exercises the powers and performs the duties of a faculty for all courses not pertaining to any faculty. The Master of Business Administration course and the Doctor of Philosophy course are under the direct control of the Academic Board and. in respect of these courses, the Board is deemed to be a faculty within the meaning of these General Principles of Selection.
The Board has prescribed that these General Principles of Selection shall not apply to entry to the Doctor of Philosophy course.
2 Such dates, if any, may be prescribed in special principles of selection or by notification in the relevant Handbook for the course concerned.
3 Where working rules are used, a copy may be obtained from the Assistant Registrar of the faculty concerned.
2.1.4 A selection committee shall take into account any relevant written information submitted by an applicant.
' 2.1.5 A selection committee may conduct written or other tests for such purposes as may be provided for in special principles of selection.
' 2.1.6 A selection committee may also take into account any special prin- ciples of selection or other factors approved by Council on the recom- mendation of the faculty concerned.
2.2 A selection committee shall select a candidate only if it is satisfied that the faculty can arrange for the adequate supervision of the candidate and can provide, or arrange access to, adequate facilities for the support of that candidate.
*3. Conditional Selection
Pursuant to Regulation 3.3, section 1(1), special principles of selection may provide for the imposition of conditions subject to which admission may be granted.
4. Reservation of Places in Quotas (Deferment)
'4.1 Special principles may provide that for applicants who have been select- ed for a course, places in the succeeding year's quota shall be reserved, provided that a faculty may fix the number of places to be reserved in any year.
4.2 The selection of an applicant to a course in the year for which selection is principally being made shall not be prejudiced by an application for reser- vation of a place in the succeeding year's quota having been made prior to or at the time of accepting the offer of a place.
'4.3 Where an applicant has been granted a deferred place pursuant to para- graph 4.1, the applicant shall notify the faculty concerned by the date specified by the faculty:-
(a) whether or not the place so reserved wiil be taken up in that succeed- ing year;
(b) whether a further deferment for a second year is sought.
A selection committee may, after considering such evidence and con- ducting such interviews as it thinks fit, and subject to any special princi- ples of selection, grant a deferred place for a second period of one year.
4 Places available shall be determined by Council in accordance with resolutions agreed by Council from time to time and notified in terms of target figures, quotas or sub-quotas of Weighted Student Units attributable to postgraduate students, reserved for each faculty or postgraduate course of the University, as the case may be.
'Makes provision for Special Principles to be proposed.