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The DGR is published every year
Customers using the most updated regulations experience fewer delays, fines, and lost contracts. Each year, significant changes are done to procedures and regulations, that's why we publish a new version of the DGR every year.
Find out what’s new in the 64th edition and download the significant changes:
The PDF is available in English
French, German, Russian and Spanish languages to come shortly.
What?
NDC [New Distribution Capability] is a travel industry-supported program [NDC Program] launched by IATA for the development and market adoption of a new, XML-based data transmission standard [NDC Standard]. The NDC Standard enhances the capability of communications between airlines and travel agents and is open to any third party, intermediary, IT provider or non-IATA member, to implement and use.
Why?
NDC enables the travel industry to transform the way air products are retailed to corporations, leisure and business travelers, by addressing the industry’s current distribution limitations: product differentiation and time-to-market, access to full and rich air content and finally, transparent shopping experience.
Who will benefit and how?
Available on a voluntary and open basis, NDC benefits different industry players across the airline distribution value chain as follows:
- Full service and low-cost airlines > Differentiate their Products and Services
- Travel Sellers > Access Full and Rich Air Content of the Airlines
- Customers > Benefit from a Transparent Shopping Experience
The NDC Messages are governed by the Shop-Order Standards Board under the Passenger Standards Conference and managed by three specialised Industry Groups; the Offer, Order and Customer Payment Groups. These Groups, ensure the standard is maintained and improved each release.
If you are an airline or strategic partner and would like to join the conversations and help set the standard, please contact for more information.
IATA Passenger Messaging Standards
The NDC [Offer and Order] messages can be found within the standard IATA Passenger Messaging Standards.
- Download the latest Schemas
NDC Implementation Guide
- Go to the NDC Implementation Guide
What is your GPA?
The grade point average [GPA] is an internationally recognised measure of a student’s performance.
The GPA may be used:
- to select students for prizes and scholarships
- as a basis to award degrees with honours and pass with distinction
- to set minimum entry levels for students articulating from vocational eduction to higher education programs
- as an eligibility criterion for selection into research programs
- as an eligibility criterion for selection into undergraduate and postgraduate programs at other Australian universities
How to view your GPA
Your GPA is available in Enrolment Online:
- Log in to Enrolment Online
- Select My student record
- Under Enrolment details select View academic history/results
Your GPA is also recorded on your academic transcript.
How does GPA work?
RMIT has adopted a 4-point GPA scale for the ordinal result scheme, as indicated in the following table.
* Where the grade is used in the training package but the assessment is non-graded, the grade does not contribute to GPA score.
Calculating the GPA
To calculate your GPA for each course:
- multiply the number of credits points [higher education] or student contact hours [vocational education] by the grade point value of the grade received, then
- divide the total grade points by the credit points or student contact hours
The GPA is rounded to one decimal point.
Examples of GPA calculations
Grades that are not included in GPA calculations
The following table outlines other grades used at RMIT that are not included in GPA calculations.
* Where the grade is used in the training package but the assessment is non-graded, the grade does not contribute to GPA score.
** This grade is only used for Foundation Studies.
Who can access your GPA
Your GPA is recorded in the student database as part of your academic information. Only authorised RMIT staff members have access to this information.
RMIT will only release your GPA outside of RMIT if:
- you apply for admission to another tertiary institution through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre [VTAC] and you claim previous study. Your application authorises VTAC to collect and circulate your results through the Automatic Results Transfer System [ARTS]. The ARTS system automatically collects your result and GPA information from RMIT and provides it to the institution/s that you are applying to via VTAC; or
- you authorise RMIT to do so on your behalf
Definitions
Career: Level of study, e.g. vocational education, undergraduate, postgraduate.
Credit points: Courses in higher education programs all have credit points which reflect the total student workload required to satisfactorily complete the course. Each full-time year of the program totals 96 credit points: 48 in each semester. Credit points are also the basis for calculating Equivalent Full Time Student Units or EFTSU [96 credit points equal 1.0 EFTSU].
Cumulative GPA: A numerical calculation weighted by credit points or hours, of the mean of grades received by a student in courses in the program or career to date.
Grade point average [GPA]: A numerical calculation weighted by credit points or hours, of the mean of the grades received by a student over a defined study period [e.g. a semester] or over an entire program.
Mark: A precise determination, usually expressed in percentage terms, of the student’s outcome for a course, e.g. 74%.
Mean: A value calculated by dividing the sum of a set of terms by the number of terms [average].
Pass/fail only: In courses to which this scale applies, students are assessed only as either a pass [ungraded] or a fail.
Result/grade: Alphanumeric code given for a course, e.g. ‘C’ [credit].
Term GPA: Numerical calculation, weighted by credit points or hours, of the mean of grades received by a student in courses over a defined study period.
Student contact hours [SCH]: The nominal hours for the VE modules/courses undertaken.
Transcript of Results: Formal document issued by RMIT to enrolled students advising of the result and mark [if applicable] for all courses on conferral of the award.