UNSW Policy Development Process

The authority to establish Policy, Procedures and Guidelines is set out in Section 4 of the Register of Delegations. The Register sets out the majority of the functions which the Council has authorised particular officers and bodies of the University to carry out regularly.

Policy must be approved by the Delegate listed in Section 4.2.2 (the Vice-Chancellor). Only an Executive Team member can take a Policy to the Vice-Chancellor for approval. Before submitting the Policy to the Vice-Chancellor, the Executive Team member will usually take the Policy to Executive Team and/or Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee (VCAC) for consideration.

Procedures and Guidelines must be approved by one of the Delegates listed in Section 4.2.3 of the Register of Delegations (the Vice-Chancellor; a Deputy Vice-Chancellor; the Executive Director Finance and Operations; the Executive Director University Services; Pro-Vice-Chancellor) or one of their Nominees. A list of nominees is held in the Policy Management Unit.

Once all feedback has been incorporated into a final draft, the document should be forwarded to the Policy Management Unit (PMU) for a final quality control check of typographical and document management information. This is to ensure that once approved the document may be published without further corrections.