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INTERNAL MEMORANDUM 
 
 
To: 
Deans 
 
 
From: 
Professor Raewyn Dalziel 
 
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) 
 
Date: 
6 June 2006  
 
Subject: 
Postgraduate Qualifications: Honours, Merit and Distinction 
 
 
In 2005 a Working Party on Grading recommended through Education Committee to Senate 
that classes of honours should be ‘aligned consistently with particular grades across the 
University’.  Senate agreed that an expanded working party should develop a policy on the 
assignment of classes of Honours, Distinction and Merit. 
 
A working party has subsequently met with representatives of all Faculties and has reported 
to Education Committee.  This working party has proposed that classes of Honours, 
Distinction and Merit be awarded consistently across the University on the basis of the GPA 
gained by the student.  It has proposed the GPAs required to attain each class of Honours, 
Distinction and Merit. 
 
Education Committee has asked that this paper be referred to Faculties for their views.  These 
views should be sent to the University Secretariat: [email address] by 30 June 
2006. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
./. 
Meeting on Grading, 8 March 2006, Education Committee, 15 May 2006. 
 
Copy DVC(A)/Deans, 16 December 2005 (referred to by Meeting on Grading) 

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