Policy Development and Review Manual

This Manual is designed to help University of Tasmania policy makers create policies that are necessary, current, relevant, useful and that are developed and presented in a uniform way.

It outlines a standard policy development and review process for the design, approval, implementation, monitoring and review of University Operational Policies and Procedures.

The new Policy Development and Review Process is not designed to replace existing University mechanisms for the development and review of policy. Policy development will continue to use the established system of University Committees and other decision-making bodies or structures.

What will change will be the way all policies will now be recorded and presented.

The Policy Development and Review Process has been approved by the Vice-Chancellor and is administered by Governance and Legal. Comments and questions about the manual or the policy process are welcomed and should be addressed to: uni.policy@utas.edu.au .

Contents of the Manual

• Using the Manual
• Standards for Policy Development and Review
• Policy for Operational Policy Development and Review
• Procedures for Operational Policy Development and Review
• Introduction to Templates
  • Operational Policy template
  • Operational Procedure template
  • Tracking Sheet
  • Implementation Plan
• Outline of University of Tasmania Governance

Print ready copies of the Manual can be downloaded in either Microsoft Word or PDF -

• Policy Manual- WORD
• Policy Manual- PDF