
Handbooks
Handbooks have proved to be invaluable to reducing student stress load in that they know exactly what they are required to do. Some examples of the kinds of handbooks can be found here:
-
School of Biology Honours Handbook (Flinders University)
- Project Booklet (for prospective students)
- Honours Manual (for new students)
- School of Nursing Honours Handbook (Flinders University)
- Psychology
Honours web site
Monash University's information site for its Psychology honours students.
Good Practice Guidelines
Fourth Year Honours Programs: Guideline
for Good Practice ![]()
Guidelines issued by the AVCC for applying to honours programs.
Supervising
Honours Students
This guide has been prepared by Southern Cross University to assist
honours supervisors to be highly effective in the performance of
their supervisory responsibilities.
Assessing
Theses and Dissertations
Online newsletter produced by UWA's Centre for Staff Development.
This issue focuses on an area in which there has been much less
research and discussion in higher education: the assessment of theses
and dissertations, including honours dissertations as well as master's
and PhD theses.
Resources for Students
Advice to students from Flinders Honours
students of 1999
This list of advice to students from students was gathered by Cathy
Hawes in the School of Nursing during her research into the Honours
experience. It contains a link to a version suitable for download
and distribution to your own Honours students

