Attendance and Academic Progress Monitoring

Attendance and Academic Progress Monitoring

We are required by the National Code of Practice 2018 to monitor and record students’ attendance and academic progress throughout their chosen course.  All international students are required to attend 20 contact hours per week to meet their student visa requirements and to gain maximum benefit from the course delivery.  Students are required to attend all scheduled face-to-face training sessions each week.  The minimum attendance requirement by the National Code is 80% for each term.

A teacher will conduct a “sign-on” of attendance at the commencement and at the end of each session.  There will be an attendance system where the teacher marks the actual attendance on paper and in the student management system. Distance learning is marked each week by teachers, and the same data is transferred to student management system.  Students with late arrivals or early departures will be marked off on the attendance sheet.  Students’ attendance is reported over a period of each term and monitored each half term.

Students are required to inform the college in writing (if applicable) if they are unable to attend classes for reasons such as illness, serious family problems, etc.  A medical certificate from a registered general practitioner will be required if you are sick, and it will be recorded on the attendance record. 

The student attendance policy can be downloaded from our webpages or obtained from our administration.