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47-564: UAC calculates the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC) students, and processes applications to its participating institutions based on the selection rank of prospective students. A student's selection rank for each subject is composed of their ATAR, plus any adjustment points individual institutions may offer for reaching certain targets in specific subjects. Students rank tertiary courses in order of preference, and if

94-534: A decade of its founding, Alan Bond was sentenced to separate jail terms for investment and corporate fraud (1995 and 1996). The Bond University Council was not the only entity interested in the site which was advertised for sale in major newspapers. In 1995, the Employment, Education and Training References Committee of the Australian Senate undertook a report into the proposed sale of the campus to

141-492: A proposal to the Albert Shire Council for a university at Gaven Forest . While this project did not proceed, a subsequent proposal made in 1986 to build a university at Burleigh Forest did gain traction. Orr discussed the matter with Bond and Peter Beckwith and recruited Jo Anne Cracknell to research the feasibility of venture. On 3 July 1986, Bond decided to proceed with the project and his intention to build

188-566: A range of housing on campus. Bond University is centrally located on the Gold Coast, in the suburb of Robina. In 2017, Bond University, in conjunction with all Australian universities, participated in a national report undertaken by the Australian Human Rights Commission to tackle the issue of sexual harassment and assault. The Vice Chancellor of Bond University acknowledged the survey results saying, “Today

235-522: A student reaches the required selection rank for any of the courses in their list, the student receives an offer of admission for the course ranked highest in the list. This process occurs over multiple rounds, such that if a student misses an offer in one round, they may receive an offer in subsequent rounds. In addition, UAC: UAC is a member of the Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admission Centres (ACTAC). In order to calculate

282-737: A student's ATAR. Since UCP and HAP units are only one semester long, only 8/15 of the scaled score may be counted towards the ATAR. The other 7/15 may come from any other subject but is generally chosen from the alternative semester UCP/HAP unit. The Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC) is responsible for the calculation of students' ATARs in Western Australia. TISC does not require that students complete an English subject, though they must demonstrate literary competency through their Year 9 NAPLAN results or an Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA). TISC derives an ATAR percentile from

329-403: A student's Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA), which is calculated as a sum of the student's best four scaled subjects out of their Year 12 ATAR subjects over up to five consecutive years. Students may additionally count 10% of their score in any of the following subjects: The maximum TEA is 430. Mature age students may also receive a Mature Age Tertiary Entrance Aggregate, which only incorporates

376-431: A student's best two subjects as well as 10% of any of the above subjects. The TEA is converted to an ATAR percentile using the cubic spline model. The ATAR Specialist, Method, and LoTE bonuses are scheduled to be removed no earlier than 2027. This move had mixed reception with WASSCO (Western Australia Council of State School Organizations) agreeing with TISC's decision, citing equality of opportunity. Tony Buti ,

423-401: A student's educational disadvantage or subject performance. ATAR is not a mark, but rather a percentile ranking between 0.00 and 99.95 which shows the student’s relative position compared to all other students in the range of 16 to 20 years old who would have completed their respective year 12 exams in that state in a year. The ATAR rank provides an indication of the overall position of

470-684: A three-semester-per-year timetable. The university is ranked 20th in the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings of the Best Small Universities in the World, and has been Australia's top university for the educational experience for 17 consecutive years. Bond comprises four main university schools and academic faculties, through which it offers a range of accelerated undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and programs, diplomas, and non-award programs. Bond University

517-631: Is calculated alongside the NSW equivalent by the University Admissions Centre (UAC). Results are calculated on the basis of students' achievement in the ACT Senior Secondary Certificate (ACT SSC). UAC treats all ACT and NSW students as one cohort and thus the two regions' ATARs are exactly equivalent. The aggregate score is calculated as a sum of the student's three best scores from major courses and 60% of

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564-494: Is calculated by the university. The ATAR is calculated by each state or territory's own state-level Tertiary Admission Center (TAC) for all domestic students studying within their geographical limits. Interstate Domestic Students must apply to the TAC of their respective state. The Selection Rank is calculated by each University separately based on the ATAR or CR as well as additional points for each university's unique criteria such as

611-406: Is in the top 20 Small Universities according to the Times Higher Education rankings. The Bond University Student Association (BUSA) is a student organisation that aims to make student life at Bond more rewarding, ranging from enhancing academic pursuits, facilitating sporting involvement and satisfying social necessities. Sports teams in national and state-level competitions based at Bond include

658-533: Is required for the majority of university entry. The Tasmania ATAR is calculated from a Tertiary Entrance Score (TES), which is the sum of a student's scaled results in their five best pre-tertiary subjects. Three of these subjects must come from the student's final year of study (Year 12 or 13), and students may only count scores from two years of their study, even if they have taken a Year 13. Other subjects, such as selected University Connections Program (UCP) and High Achiever Program (HAP) units, may also contribute to

705-739: The Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales , and for the rest of the country, excluding Queensland , in 2010. The ATAR was introduced to unify the university entrance system in Australia, where previously each state or territory had its own individual system (UAI in ACT/NSW, TER in SA/NT/WA/TAS, ENTER in Victoria). In 2020, Queensland switched to the ATAR as the primary tertiary entrance pathway, replacing

752-731: The Overall Position (OP). In 2016, a computer error allowed 2075 students to receive their ATAR score five days earlier than they were supposed to be announced. The external SMS provider for VCAA, Salmat Digital, created an error that allowed students to receive their results by texting VCAA and requesting their scores to be sent to them on the expected release date. This sparked outrage from parents of students who did not receive their scores, citing that they considered it "unfair", as well as concern about some students receiving their results before they were equipped to deal with them (particularly with regards to counseling). In all states,

799-1056: The Queensland Country team that plays in the National Rugby Championship , the Bond University Breakers rugby club that plays in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition, and the Bond University Bullsharks club that plays in the Queensland Football Association Division 1 (QFA Division 1) competition. Bond University fields soccer teams within Football Queensland South Coast and Football Queensland competitions. The Bond University Student Association (BUSA) assists with

846-534: The University of Queensland which had outbid the Bond University Council in their earlier negotiations to acquire the site. In August 1999, the Bond University Council was successful in securing the 50 acre campus site which was acquired by a newly formed public company known as Bond University Limited. In 2019, the university celebrated its 30-year mark since it opened. The same year,

893-584: The University of Tasmania (UTAS), there is no state-wide admissions body. Students' results from the Office of Tasmanian Assessments, Standards and Certification (TASC) are provided directly to the university for calculation of scaling and ATARs. UTAS uses a polytomous Rasch model to scale course results. Students who qualify for the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) are automatically awarded an ATAR if they also pass four or more courses at

940-403: The ATAR for HSC students, UAC adjusts students' HSC marks in a process known as scaling. Given the lack of comparability between subjects of different difficulties, the spread of students' marks in each individual subject is adjusted so the mean , the standard deviation and the maximum mark in each course are equivalent. UAC then shifts the mean mark and spread of marks in each subject to equal

987-399: The ATAR is a percentile given between 0.00 and 99.95 which compares a student's performance in senior secondary with that of their peers. For example, an ATAR of 99.00 would indicate that the recipient performed better than 99% of their peers. "Peers" is not the body of students receiving an ATAR that year, but a notional body of persons who might have qualified to receive an ATAR – as a result,

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1034-413: The ATAR, they are all primarily based on the student's scaled subject results. Scaling is a process that is performed by all states which align student results along a common axis such that the same score in two subjects equates with the same level of achievement. In this way, students are not disadvantaged by taking difficult subjects where the average achievement is lower. Theoretically, this ensures that

1081-727: The ATAR-based Combined Rank ( CR ) for all International Baccalaureate (IB) students, are the primary criteria for determining the Selection Rank ( SR ) for admission into undergraduate courses in Australian public universities . Domestic Students are students who are Australian or New Zealand citizens, or Australian permanent residents , or the holder of long-term refugee visa. ATAR & CR are not applicable for international students as they must apply directly to each university separately and their SR

1128-687: The ATARs between students are comparable even when they took a different combination of courses. Despite this, in a 2018 survey, 35.8% of HSC students said they chose one or more subjects because they believed it would help them achieve a higher ATAR. The Victorian ATAR (formerly ENTER ) is calculated by the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) using student results provided by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). VTAC will combine

1175-494: The University of Sydney, "The ATAR creates a hierarchy of languages and replicates SES differences rather than differences in language proficiency". The aggregate is a sum of scaled marks in 10 units of eligible courses: Students achieve the highest possible aggregate given their results. The aggregates are mapped to percentiles and given to students on their ATAR Advice Notice. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) ATAR

1222-583: The West Australian minister for education at the time publicly urged TISC to rethink it's decision. Bond University Bond University is Australia's first private not-for-profit university and is located in Robina, a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland. Since its founding on 15 May 1989, Bond University has primarily been a teaching-focused higher education institution featuring

1269-472: The company that controlled the land on which the university buildings were constructed and the surrounding development lands following the collapse of Bond Corporation. By 1993, EIE was in receivership and the Bond University Council commenced negotiations to acquire the campus from the mortgagee, the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan . The university retained the name 'Bond' even though, within

1316-702: The course candidature where, for individual students, the measure of academic achievement is taken as the average scaled mark in all courses completed". Prior to 2000, language courses were not influenced by the candidature's achievement in other courses, but scaled separately against achievement in French and German. Since the unification of languages scaling into the general pool of courses, scaling has been observed to favour courses taken by candidates from higher socioeconomic backgrounds — for similar levels of proficiency, French courses have enjoyed more favourable scaling compared to Arabic. According to Dr Ken Cruickshank from

1363-507: The following combinations of results: Like in New South Wales, students will be awarded on the basis of the combination ensuring the maximum final percentile. Students must pass an English subject in order to receive their Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) and thus qualify for an ATAR, but their English result does not necessarily need to be included in the calculation of their ATAR. Since Tasmania has only one university,

1410-411: The increments can also include other results, such as interstate study or university extension studies. There are also other rules, such as only two studies from the same subject area can contribute to the "primary 4". For example, if the student completed Unit 3/4 for all General Mathematics, Mathematical Methods, and Specialist Mathematics, the one with the lowest study score must be an increment, even if

1457-630: The maximum rank in NSW/ACT would change from a UAI of 100 to an ATAR of 99.95. The New South Wales ATAR is calculated by the University Admission Centre (UAC) using student results achieved in the Higher School Certificate (HSC). The marks included in the calculation can be accumulated over five years. Subjects are scaled such that "the scaled mean in a course is equal to the average academic achievement of

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1504-461: The mean mark and spread of marks that the students of that one subject attained in all other subjects. Finally, UAC aggregates scores into a single mark out of 500 for each student, and then gives students a percentile ranking in increments of 0.05 based on this aggregate. This percentile ranking is the ATAR. In practice, this means that if two students receive the same HSC marks for each subject, but one student takes more higher-scaling subjects, and

1551-529: The median ATAR score is generally above 50, depending on the state or territory. For example, the median ATAR score in NSW and the ACT for 2014 was 68.95. Since 2020, all jurisdictions have used a one-parameter cubic spline model to convert their aggregate scores into percentiles. In most states, when a student achieves an ATAR between 0.00 and 30.00, their notification will only indicate an ATAR of "30 or less". Though there are differences in how each state calculates

1598-598: The next best course. Queensland transitioned from the Overall Position (OP) to ATAR in 2019, with the 2020 cohort being the first to graduate through the ATAR system. When the OP was still in place, the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) used a scaling method known as the "Queensland Core Skills Test". Since the introduction of the ATAR, Queensland now uses inter-scaling methods used by other states. ATAR can be calculated from any of

1645-650: The other takes more lower-scaling subjects, the student who took higher-scaling subjects would attain a better ATAR. In a 2018 survey, 35.8% of HSC students said they chose one or more subjects because they believed it would help them achieve a higher ATAR. UAC acts on behalf of 18 universities in Australia, primarily located in New South Wales and the ACT: UAC also administers applications on behalf of eight other accredited tertiary education providers: Australian Tertiary Admission Rank The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank ( ATAR ) for all domestic students , or

1692-406: The pre-tertiary level (Level 3 or 4). Unlike in other states and territories, students do not need to complete an English course to qualify for a TCE or ATAR, though they must demonstrate an adult level of reading, writing and communication through another subject or through a safety net test. Most students who qualify for an ATAR will have completed an English course anyway, since pre-tertiary English

1739-490: The score is higher than all other studies outside of mathematics. The group of students with the highest aggregates will be assigned the highest ATAR of 99.95. ATARs below 30.00 are reported as "less than 30" on printed ATAR statements, however the actual ATAR is available online. The shift to ATAR means that the ranks of most students receiving a UAI would increase by a small amount (although this would not present as any advantage as cutoffs would subsequently increase), while

1786-455: The student in relation to the student body for that year across the state. A higher ATAR gives preference to that student for the course to which they wish to enrol in a university of their choice. The ATAR is used by all Australian public universities via their respective state-level Tertiary Admissions Centers, which are the unified admission center for all the universities within that state or territory. These bodies then allocate positions for

1833-578: The student's results into an "aggregate" which is a sum of selected (scaled) results from eligible subjects: The Victorian aggregates, which can range from 0 to over 210 (in exceptional cases), are then mapped to percentiles for conversion to an ATAR. Students must pass an English subject in order to qualify for an ATAR as well as the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). The primary four results must be taken from VCE or Vocational Education and Training (VET) Units 3 and 4 sequences, while

1880-546: The tertiary institutions in their relevant states. Private universities, with the exception of Bond University , do not primarily consider the ATAR and students must apply directly. The list of state-level TACs are as follows: In June 2009, the Federal Minister for Education Julia Gillard announced the removal of all state-level university entrance scores and the introduction of a national Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) for Year 12 students of 2009 within

1927-532: The university severed ties with the United Kingdom's Prince Andrew and his former organization Pitch@Palace Global. The Bond University campus features a series of sandstone buildings centred around human-made Lake Orr. The campus was conceived and developed by master planner Daryl Jackson of Jackson Architecture with significant input from Queensland architect Robin Gibson. The signature arch building

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1974-624: The university since 2016 is Annabelle Bennett , AC SC , a retired judge of the Federal Court of Australia and an academic. The current vice-chancellor and president of the university since January 2012 is Tim Brailsford . The university has four faculties to support both research and teaching activities. The 2022 Good Universities Guide gave Bond University 5-star ratings in every student experience category. More than 90 per cent of students rated their educational experience at Bond University as positive. Bond University

2021-657: The university's participation in intervarsity sport on a regional and national level. Bond University was named the overall champions at the Northern University Games (NUG) in July 2011, and went on to be named Australian University Sport Per Capita Champions at the Australian University Games in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and most recently 2017. Bond University Student Housing caters for both domestic and international students, with

2068-819: The university, then known as the Bond University of Applied Technology , was formally announced at the National Party of Australia conference on the Gold Coast by the Premier of Queensland , Joh Bjelke-Petersen on 17 July 1986. On 9 April 1987, the Parliament of Queensland granted Bond University university status via the passage of the Bond University Act . In 1989 the university commenced teaching with an initial intake of 322 students. In 1991, EIE acquired Bond Corporation's share of

2115-775: Was designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki , inspired by the Arch of Constantine in Rome, Italy. Students at Bond University have access to a number of academic, technological and recreational facilities. Recent alterations to the campus facilities include: Other campus facilities at Bond University include: In 2001, the university established an online MBA course, the Bond-BBT Global Leadership MBA, collaborated with Kenichi Ohmae and Business Breakthrough Inc. in Japan. The current and eighth chancellor of

2162-634: Was established and funded in 1987 by the chairman of the Australian-based Bond Corporation , Alan Bond , and the president of the Japanese-based Electronics and Industrial Enterprises International (EIE), Harunori Takahashi and Dr Taro Tanioka, in a joint venture to manage the land and construction of the buildings of the university. The university's buildings and surrounding land initially covered approximately 212 hectares and encompassed what

2209-639: Was previously a pine plantation known as the Burleigh Forest. In the 1970s, Bond had obtained control of a number of pine plantations in the region, previously owned by the Savoy Corporation Limited and Gold Coast Cooperative Plantations Society Limited, and established a new company known as the Development Equity Corporation (DEC) to develop them. DEC was managed by Brian Orr who, in 1976, put forward

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