Changing Attendance Status (full time/half time)

Research students are permitted to enrol as either full time (1.0) or half time (0.5) candidates.

With the approval of your supervisors and School, you may change your attendance status from full time to half time or vice versa at any time during candidature. Such changes will generally be supported; however your School may caution you against converting from a full time to a half time enrolment if you are conducting research in a fast paced experimental field because of the risk of your research becoming obsolete before your thesis has been submitted for examination.

Applications should be made on the form "Attendance status: application to change", available on the Graduate Centre forms page.

Scholarship Holders

If you are a scholarship holder, you are normally required to maintain a full time attendance status. Applications to convert to a half time enrolment can only be approved where there are exceptional circumstances that relate to significant caring commitments or a medical condition which limits your capacity to undertake full time study. If you are in receipt of a half time award, the University may require you to convert to a full time attendance status when the compelling reasons that were the basis of the approval no longer apply.

Half time awards are paid at a reduced stipend and are not exempt from taxation.

International Students

International students are required to maintain a full-time attendance status whilst studying within Australia.