Management Essay Border Environment and the Role of Agencies

Management Essay Border Environment and the Role of Agencies.

border agencies and princples of border mangment

Length: 1250
Submission method options: EASTS (online)
Task
“Agencies are charged by their governments and by extension their citizens, with security responsibilities….as well as raising revenues – all whilst not inhibiting the movement of tradable goods or passengers and their means of conveyance ”

Border management has evolved from its historical “gatekeeper” role at the border to the important role it has to both regulate and facilitate trade in the current complex global trade environment.
1. What are some of the factors that have caused this role to change: particularly those factors that have developed in recent times (625 words)
2. Describe two of the major regulatory roles that border agencies undertake today and explain how trade facilitation impacts on these roles. (625 words)
Rationale
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
• be able to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the internationally recognised government structures for border management.
• be able to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the policy responses of government to border issues.
• be able to analyse and interpret international and national developments affecting border integrity and security
• be able to apply international legal principles and best practice administrative approaches to border management issues.
• be able to demonstrate an informed understanding of the role of customs and border agencies and their environment
• be able to critically assess the challenges faced by customs and border agencies in the delivery of their services
• be able to demonstrate an understanding of the impact of international organisations, treaties and conventions on border management
• be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the principles of strategic planning in border management
The purpose of this assignment is broadening your understanding of how border management has evolved into its present day role(s) and the factors that have caused the change from the historical “gatekeeper” role.
Marking criteria and standards
The following criteria will be used in marking this assignment:
• Your ability to identify, articulate and discuss the changes that have taken place in border management approaches/practices in recent times (3 marks).
• Your ability to identify the causal factors that have brought about changes in Border Management approaches/practice. (4 marks).
• Your ability to explain the major regulatory roles of Border Management agencies (4 marks)
• Your ability to explain how trade facilitation has impacted on those roles and to analyses that impact. (3 marks).
• Your ability to use informed sources to appropriately support your position (2 marks).
• Your ability to communicate effectively in academic writing (2 marks).
• Your ability to provide due and appropriate in text and end of text referencing in accordance with the required APA (6th Ed) style (2 mark).
Your assignment will be marked using the marking sheet below and each aspect of the assignment will be graded as either:
• Fail (FL)
• Pass (P)
• Credit (CR)
• Distinction (DI)
• High Distinction (HD)

Presentation
All assignments are to be presented in Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing. Your paragraph spacing should be set at 6 pt before and 6 pt after. Within your written work if you directly quote from a source and the quotation is more than 40 words you must set off as a block quotation, indented by 1cm in Arial Narrow, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing.
Charles Sturt University is committed to ensure that all written work is of a high grammatical standard. You must pay particular attention to your grammar and expression in your written submissions. Grammatical and expression standards will form part of the marking criteria for all assignments in this subject.
Referencing
Citing or referencing is the process of acknowledging the words, ideas or data of others used in the preparation of an assessment. This is important to allow the readers of your work to locate and check each source of information and importantly to avoid plagiarism. A reference is necessary when:
• another writer is directly quoted
• the ideas of another writer are reported or rephrased.

Like many other schools at Charles Sturt University, CCES uses the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. Students must use the APA (6th ed.) referencing style when completing all assessments.
To assist Students to understand how to reference and avoid unintentional plagiarism the Library has produced guidance to referencing assignments, essays, theses, dissertations and other works can be found at:
http://student.csu.edu.au/library/integrity/referencing-at-csu

The University has published a guide to using the APA referencing style and it can be found at:
http://student.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/294977/APA-Referencing-Summary.pdf
In your assignments and submissions in this Course you will often be referring to international agreements/treaties etc. As the APA Publication Manual does not explicitly provide instructions in this regard the following is provided by CCES as a guide that you may find helpful.
doms.csu.edu.au/csu/items/8bd3db9b-711f-4053-8426-9d652bda9961/1/

If you have any doubts about the referencing requirements and your responsibilities in this regard you are encouraged to contact your subject coordinator before you provide any written work.

Students have a responsibility to uphold University standards on ethical scholarship. Good scholarship involves building on the work of others and use of others work must be acknowledged with proper attribution made. Cheating, plagiarism, and falsification of data are dishonest practices which contravene academic values.

Plagiarism consists of a person using the words or ideas of another as if they were his or her own. That is, using, or attempting to use, another person’s work without acknowledgement. The phrase ‘using another person’s work’ includes, but is not limited to:
• paraphrasing the work of another person;
• directly copying any part of another person’s work;
• summarising the work of another person;
• using or developing an idea or theme derived from another person’s work;
• using experimental results obtained from another person’s work; and
• in the case of collaborative projects, falsely representing the individual contributions of the collaborating students where individual contributions are to be identified.

Charles Sturt University takes a serious view of plagiarism and cheating in any form of assessment, and will take appropriate steps to detect plagiarism including by electronic means using the anti-plagiarism software Turnitin. Other forms of cheating will also be treated with the utmost seriousness.

Penalties for plagiarism are listed in the Academic Regulations under the Student Academic Misconduct Rule. The penalties include: a caution or reprimand; awarding of zero marks in the assignment, essay, project, test, examination or other work in respect of which academic misconduct has occurred; a fail in the subject; a fine; suspended enrolment; or exclusion from the University.