ACADEMIC REGULATIONS
General Academic Regulations - He whakaritenga mātauranga - are regulations that cover all aspects of being a student in any programme at BTI. The regulations cover issues relating to:Admission to programmes (Credit Recognition and Transfer (CRT))
The complete General Academic Regulations (GAR) can be found on BTIonline.
- Awarding qualifications (includes assessment, appeals, applying for impaired performance, remedying course failure)
- Studentship status (includes withdrawal and deferral)
- Fees
- Programme evaluation
- Delivery of programmes
The complete General Academic Regulations (GAR) can be found on BTIonline.
ACADEMIC SUPPORT
If you have any questions regarding this, contact your Educator Year Group Coordinator/Cohort Mentor. You can also contact the Learning Centre.
ASSIGNMENTS
Where assignments are not posted to a DropBox on BTIonline, they need to be posted in the assignment box in Reception or, if oversized, handed to the Receptionist who will record that the assignment has been received. Distance students must send assignments postmarked on the due date or before. Please do not email assignments to the reception email address.
Please make sure you attach a coversheet to your assignment so that your work is easily identifiable as being yours. Cover sheets are available at Reception or on BTIonline.
You must hand your assignments in before 4.30pm the day they are due as
Reception closes at 4.30pm. Where possible, please save a copy of your assignments before you hand them in.
Please make sure you attach a coversheet to your assignment so that your work is easily identifiable as being yours. Cover sheets are available at Reception or on BTIonline.
You must hand your assignments in before 4.30pm the day they are due as
Reception closes at 4.30pm. Where possible, please save a copy of your assignments before you hand them in.
GETTING ENOUGH CREDITS FOR YOUR QUALIFICATION
Please ensure that you check this - it’s your responsibility to check. You will need to check that you will have the right number of credits needed for a degree, diploma or graduate diploma. Some quick sums may save angst later!
INTENSIVES
Counselling, Social Work, Secondary, B.Ed and Masters
All students need to come to the BTI campus for at least two intensive visits each year. This means that if you don’t live locally you will need to allow for travel, accommodation and meal costs.
Don’t forget! As we say in our Programme Information - timetables change semester by semester, so wait until you have the timetable and THEN book your travel!
Please remember that you need to check that the papers you are enrolled in work on the timetable. Attendance at intensives is compulsory. You cannot go on with any paper that presents a clash because you will miss the intensive. It’s your responsibility to check this!
Food & Beverage during intensives
All students will need to bring their own lunch and snacks when they come onsite for intensives.
All students need to come to the BTI campus for at least two intensive visits each year. This means that if you don’t live locally you will need to allow for travel, accommodation and meal costs.
Don’t forget! As we say in our Programme Information - timetables change semester by semester, so wait until you have the timetable and THEN book your travel!
Please remember that you need to check that the papers you are enrolled in work on the timetable. Attendance at intensives is compulsory. You cannot go on with any paper that presents a clash because you will miss the intensive. It’s your responsibility to check this!
Food & Beverage during intensives
All students will need to bring their own lunch and snacks when they come onsite for intensives.
PLAGIARISM
All assignment work at BTI needs to be your own work and you sign each assignment to say that it is. You can use quotes and refer to ideas you’ve read about by using APA Referencing to give credit where credit is due - to the original author. Each semester we randomly check assignments from each year group and programme for copying and pasting (plagiarism). It is serious business to use other people’s work without giving them credit by referencing and there are unpleasant consequences if you do this. Please be diligent in this area! Please refer to policy ‘SA.19 - Plagiarism’ for details on the seriousness of plagiarism and the consequences for breaching it.
POLICIES
There is a BTI policy for many aspects of staff and student life. All student policies can be found on in the Policy section of this site: BTI Student Policies. They can also be accessed from BTIonline.
PROGRAMME REGULATIONS
PERSONAL COUNSELLING (FOR COUNSELLING STUDENTS ONLY)
During each year the programme expectation is that each student will receive approximately 5 hours of personal counselling. By the end of their programme, Bachelor of Counselling students will accumulate a minimum of 15 hours counselling and Diploma of Family Studies and Graduate Diploma of Family Studies students will have had a minimum of 5 hours counselling.
Counselling sessions cost approximately $50- $100 per visit so you will need to consider this in your budgeting.
The form to record your personal counselling hours is on BTIonline and this needs to be sent to the Counselling & Social Work Administrator, for logging.
Supervision
During practicum, all students need to receive regular external supervision - at least once each month. Bachelor of Counselling students 200 hours and Graduate Diploma of Family Support 50 hours. Supervision costs anywhere from $60-$100 per session.
Investing in a digital video recorder
We strongly recommend that students invest in a digital recording device to record as many counselling sessions as possible for use in personal reflection, supervision and the various assessments. Every assessment needs a new session recorded.
Counselling sessions cost approximately $50- $100 per visit so you will need to consider this in your budgeting.
The form to record your personal counselling hours is on BTIonline and this needs to be sent to the Counselling & Social Work Administrator, for logging.
Supervision
During practicum, all students need to receive regular external supervision - at least once each month. Bachelor of Counselling students 200 hours and Graduate Diploma of Family Support 50 hours. Supervision costs anywhere from $60-$100 per session.
Investing in a digital video recorder
We strongly recommend that students invest in a digital recording device to record as many counselling sessions as possible for use in personal reflection, supervision and the various assessments. Every assessment needs a new session recorded.
RE-SELECTION PROCESS
At the end of the first full year of study, all students enrolled in a three or four year programme are required to undergo a re-selection process related to the original multiple entry criteria. Students enrolled in a four year programme repeat this process at the end of their second year of study. On re-selection, students proceed to the next stage of their programme.
TEXTBOOKS
These required texts need to be purchased BEFORE the start of the semester in which they will be needed. Check which courses are being taken in the coming semester and purchase the texts for these. You would have either received a letter with your enrolment information regarding the set texts required for your courses, or your course Educator will give you adequate notice of texts that are required prior to the start of your course.
