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• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Budget Measures) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to funding and grant levels for 2006-09 for certain purposes, including: 100 new places in Veterinary Science and Tropical Agriculture at James Cook University; capital infrastructure funding for the University of Western Sydney; and Commonwealth Scholarships; and

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  to reflect indexation increases for transitional financial assistance funding for 2006-07. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 1) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to: funding for the Commonwealth Grant Scheme and Other Grants for 2005-08; eligibility for capital development funding grants; conditions for exemptions from the tuition assurance requirements; re-crediting of Student Learning Entitlement and FEE-HELP balance;

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  to: clarify that no refunds of voluntary Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) repayments will be made from 1 January 2005; and make a technical correction to the definition of HECS debt; and

  Maritime College Act 1978

  to ensure that the Australian Maritime College complies with the National Governance Protocols. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 2) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to further implement and refine the new framework for the Commonwealth funding of higher education and provide certainty to higher education providers and students, particularly in relation to review of decisions; access to student support payments; and flexibility of providers to respond to changes in demand and supply for particular courses or units of study. Also amends the:

  Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003

  to clarify certain references; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  clarify tax file number requirements for students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 3) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to: the definition of “Student Load”; quality and accountability requirements; guidelines for incidental fees and fees in respect of overseas students; compliance audits on the operation of certain higher education providers; and Commonwealth supported students; and make a technical amendment to correct a drafting error;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 2) Act 2005

  to reflect the renaming of Open Learning Australia to Open Universities Australia; and

  Australian National University Act 1991

  to repeal an obselete heading. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 4) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: insert a category of Table C providers to enable certain foreign-owned and operated universities to be listed as overseas higher education providers; include Carnegie Mellon University as the first Table C provider; and clarify the tuition assurance arrangements for higher education providers other than Table A providers; and

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003

  as a consequence of the commencement of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2006 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Sep 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  in relation to: transition funding for 2007; and repeal of the Higher Education (HECS) Account;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to: funding and grant levels for certain purposes; increases to FEE-HELP limits; extending summer school provisions to winter schools; setting student contribution amounts and tuition fees; rounding calculations of HELP debts; electronic communications; and regulation of higher education in external territories; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to reflect updated annual caps on funding. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  in relation to funding amounts for the Commonwealth Grant Scheme, Other Grants and Commonwealth Scholarships; maximum tertiary student contribution amounts for certain units of study; funding agreements; grant adjustment mechanisms; removal of certain restrictions on the proportion of domestic undergraduate fee-paying places; grants for the practical component of teacher education courses; and grants to support structural reform by universities; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to increase annual caps on funding and add funding years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Feb 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: revise the maximum funding amounts for the operation of the Research Quality Framework; reflect changes to the National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Processes; clarify the administration of the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP) and arrangements for Commonwealth supported students; provide for suspension of higher education providers by legislative instrument; and rename Victoria University of Technology to Victoria University. Also makes amendments to the

  Higher Education Funding Act 1998

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and the

  Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003[eitls] to limit the time for students to claim an entitlement to Commonwealth support. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: enable certain New Zealand citizens who are Special Category Visa holders to be eligible for HELP assistance from 1 January 2016; enable Torrens University Australia to be eligible for equivalent funding support as all other private Australian universities; update the name of the University of Ballarat to Federation University Australia; and confirm the relevant heads of constitutional power for other grants;

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to remove the requirement for the commissioners to prepare annual operational plans; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to: apply indexation adjustments for existing schemes for the financial years starting 1 July 2015 and 2016; set additional funding caps for the financial years starting 1 July 2017 and 2018; and remove the requirement for the Australian Research Council to prepare corporate plans. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Category Standards and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to: implement the recommendations of the

  Review of the Higher Education Provider Category Standards

  ; implement an outstanding recommendation of the

  Review of the impact of the TEQSA Act on the higher education sector

  to refer to the Threshold Standards as a single unified framework; include reference to the new Australian Qualifications Framework qualification type 'undergraduate certificate' in the definition of 'higher education award'; allow the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) to extend the period of a provider's registration or course accreditation more than once; allow review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of a decision by TEQSA not to change the category in which a provider is registered; enable TEQSA to assume control of higher education student records from a registered higher education provider in the event the provider ceases operations; and protect the use of the word 'university' in Australian internet domain names; and

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to confirm that higher education providers can use Indigenous student assistance grants to assist prospective, as well as existing, Indigenous students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum