Operations

Melbourne School of Theology acknowledges that good mental health is important to students' academic success as well as to their general well-being – as it also is for our faculty and staff. With this in mind, the Melbourne School of Theology has developed a Strategy to provide a sustainable approach to mental health promotion, protection and intervention for all College students and...

This policy sets out the guiding principles to ensure the highest level of health, safety and wellbeing for staff, students and visitors.

The purpose of this policy is to:

• Provide a consistent framework for gift giving and staff recognition
• Ensure gifts are appropriate, modest, and equitable
• Enable compassionate responses to significant personal circumstances
• Support transparency and responsible stewardship of College...

The College is committed to fostering a workplace characterised by integrity, respect, fairness, and accountability consistent with its mission and values.

The College seeks to address workplace concerns and grievances in ways that reflect principles of respectful engagement and sound governance practices.

This policy establishes the principles by which staff grievances are addressed, ensuring fairness, accountability, and alignment with applicable legislation and regulatory standards.

This policy supports the College’s compliance with the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021, particularly in relation to staff wellbeing, governance, and institutional...

Melbourne School of Theology is a Bible college committed to faithfulness to Scripture, integrity in conduct, and the pursuit of godliness in all aspects of its life and ministry. This Conflict-of-Interest Policy exists to protect the integrity, mission, governance, and witness of the College by ensuring that all decisions and relationships are conducted with transparency, accountability, and impartiality, consistent with biblical principles and good...

This Cyber Security Policy has the following purposes:

• Protect the operational integrity and availability of the College’s normal operations facilitated by its personnel and IT resources;
• Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and information managed and retained by the College;
• Protect against external intrusion, denial of service, ransomware, and all other malicious breaches of the College’s IT environment, whether internal or external in origin;
• Ensure all personnel are aware of potential cyber risks and are trained to detect, respond and recover from cyber events;
• Prevent unauthorised and unapproved IT activity of any type within the College’s IT environment;
• Govern IT practices to ensure cyber security is a normal and expected part of the way the College operates internally, and with its students, staff and external stakeholders;
• Manage and recover from any adverse cyber incident in the most effective and efficient manner to restore normal operations as quickly as possible;

Continually review and improve cyber security as the College’s IT environment and the real-world cyber security environment...

To provide clarity to all College staff (including volunteers) on the College’s social media policy and how to conduct themselves on social media. It is not the intent of this policy to prohibit the use of social media by members of the College community.  Rather, the policy establishes clear standards and guidelines in relation to the use of social media, where such use potentially impacts adversely upon: the operations, interests or reputation of the College; individual members of the College community; relationships with or between members of the College...

This policy outlines the conditions and principles that apply to Staff Study Discount for College staff, board members and their immediate families (spouses and children).

The purpose of the Student Support Fund (the Fund) is to provide timely, compassionate, and practical financial assistance to enrolled students who are experiencing financial hardship or unforeseen circumstances that may adversely affect their capacity to continue their studies. The Fund exists to support students so that financial distress does not become a barrier to formation for ministry, mission, and/or Christian higher education.

The Fund also supports the College’s obligations to student wellbeing, retention, and success, consistent with TEQSA’s Higher Education Standards Framework (HESF), particularly in relation to student support and...

This policy outlines the College’s commitment to managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace in accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act 2004 (Vic), and the Model Code of Practice: Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work. It aims to ensure a psychologically safe and healthy work environment for all workers.

The purpose of this policy is to proactively protect, manage, and support the psychological safety and wellbeing of all students, staff, and faculty at the College. This policy aims to create a psychologically safe environment where individuals feel empowered to address mental health challenges and are provided with the necessary resources and support.