Assessment in postgraduate courses

• Assessment requirements
• Assessment dates for 2023
• Assessment Policy and Guidelines
• Results release and academic records
• Student prizes

Assessment requirements

All assessment items for each subject are required to be undertaken by students enrolled in the:

• Graduate Certificate of Applied Corporate Governance and Risk Management; and
• Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Corporate Governance and Risk Management courses; and 
• Non-award study via the assessable mode.

Every postgraduate subject (except for the Risk Management Project) offered by Governance Institute comprises three assessment items, where all subjects have the same weightings for each assessment item, except for two subjects: Public Sector Accountability and Transparency and Risk Management Project, as summarised below:

Students must achieve a minimum of 40% (30/75 marks) in the final exam; and to pass the whole subject, the combined marks from the three assessment items must total to a minimum of 50%. 

Assessment requirements for Public Sector Accountability and Transparency are:

Assessment requirements for Risk Management Project are:

Assessment dates for 2023

The assessment dates and results release timelines are for each subject:

 *Applies all postgraduate subjects, except Applied Corporate Law, Finance for Decision Making, Public Sector Accountability and Transparency and Risk Management Project.

Assessment policy and guidelines

Assessments for each postgraduate subject at Governance Institute are conducted in accordance with its Assessment Policy.

Examinations are conducted online and accessed via the online learning centre. Governance Institute staff will advise enrolled students in advance of inline examination rules and guidelines.

The examinations for all states will be held during the publicised examination week. Examinations held on this day are primarily held during the day.

Students sitting more than one examination will have arrangements made to sit additional papers on another day during the designated examination week.

Results release and academic records

Subject results will be released per the 'Semester Results Release' timeframe listed in the Assessment dates 2023 table above, after ratification by the Education Committee. Thereafter results will be accessible to students on their academic record. Students will be notified by email when results are available.