Bill
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Education and Training portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education and Training
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-12-05
- second reading — 2018-12-05
- second reading — 2019-02-13
- other — 2019-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-12-05.
The bill would amend the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 to adopt recommendations from a review of that Act's effect on higher education.
It would simplify the standards framework, adjust quorum rules for TEQSA meetings, and allow overseas universities to use the word 'university' without penalty for certain courses.
The bill would also expand when TEQSA can disclose information, including to complainants without the consent of the body the information concerns.
- Remove references to specific categories of non-threshold standards from the Higher Education Standards Framework.
- Require TEQSA to tell the Minister and the Higher Education Standards Panel about a quality review before it starts, if the review could affect most higher education providers.
- Allow an overseas university not registered by TEQSA to offer a course not mainly provided from Australian premises and use 'university' without committing an offence.
- Change quorum for TEQSA meetings to a majority of Commissioners.
- Expand the skillset and functions of the Higher Education Standards Panel to cover oversight of TEQSA's strategic and operational planning.
- Create exceptions to the offence of unauthorised disclosure for written consent, research, and disclosure to complainants.
Higher education providers, TEQSA, the Higher Education Standards Panel, overseas universities, and the responsible Minister and Department.
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