What is Retention?
Retention is a program that supports you as a student alongside your teacher to guide you to reach your goals.
What can Retention do for me?
Referral to Student Support Services for academic support and/or personal support (counselling, wellbeing, disability support).
Facilitate one-on-one catch-up sessions with a teacher and ongoing individual mentoring.
Assistance with time management.
Discuss options such as exploring alternative training and assessment approaches or looking at different courses or study modes that might be more relevant to a student's needs.
Referral to a Koorie Liaison Officer.
Why has my teacher referred me to Retention?
Teachers are encouraged to refer students to Retention for additional support to help them achieve their study goals.
Reasons a student may be referred to Retention:
Student is absent without prior notice for 2 consecutive classes in a particular unit and the teacher has not been able to make contact with the student.
Student has missed a submission date without explanation and a request for an extension has not been made, and the teacher is unable to make contact with the student.
Student is undertaking a flexible delivery course and misses 2 scheduled workshops or other scheduled activities, and the teacher has not been able to make contact with the student.
Student has not logged into SuniConnect for more than 2 weeks.
Student has indicated the course isn’t suitable and would like to consider other courses.
Retention Tips
Maintain contact with teachers and assessors - they are there to help.
Self-referral - reach out to a Retention Officer for support.
The maximum duration of any extension is 2 weeks.
The maximum number of extensions allowed per unit is 2.