Bill
Student Identifiers Amendment (Higher Education) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2020-03-06. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2020-02-24
- second reading — 2020-02-24
- third reading — 2020-02-24
- introduced — 2020-02-24
- second reading — 2020-02-24
- second reading — 2020-02-27
- second reading — 2020-02-27
- third reading — 2020-02-27
- passed — 2020-02-27
- royal assent — 2020-03-06
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-12-04.
The bill would extend the unique student identifier system from vocational training to university students.
The Student Identifiers Registrar would gain powers to assign, collect, use, disclose and verify identifiers for higher education students, and the Education Minister could direct the Registrar by legislative instrument.
From 1 January 2023, universities could not give a regulated higher education award to a student without a student identifier or an exemption.
- Extends the student identifier system to the higher education sector.
- Expands the Registrar's powers to include higher education operations.
- Allows the Education Minister to direct the Registrar via legislative instrument.
- Requires higher education providers to withhold awards from students without an identifier from 2023.
- Enables the Education Minister to recommend regulations for higher education matters.
- Extends authorisations for collecting, using and disclosing identifiers under several education Acts.
Higher education students, registered higher education providers, the Student Identifiers Registrar, and the Education Minister.
Sources
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