Do education — higher education providers need to comply with Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021?

Comply with Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021. The Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 took effect on 1 July 2021 and is the benchmark TEQSA applies to every registered higher education provider. Part A sets seven domains: student participation and attainment; learning environment; teaching; research and research training; institutional quality assurance; governance and accountability; and representation, information and information management.

Trigger: Registration as a higher education provider, or offering or delivering a course leading to a regulated higher education award; for notifications, any event that is a material change, including a change in ownership or effective control.

Rules Mate runs its applicability engine across 9 business structures and 6 size bands for each of the 35 industries it maps. For 34 of those industries the answer for "Comply with Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021" is no. Education — higher education providers is one of the 1 where the answer is different: yes.

The deciding fact for education — higher education providers: Industry: Education — higher education providers.

About the industry: Higher education providers regulated by TEQSA.

Compare a professional services (general) business with 6–19 employees structured as a Pty Ltd company: the obligation does not apply (Requires industry: Education — higher education providers).

Each cell is the engine's outcome for a business in education — higher education providers with that structure and size, assuming it sells to consumers and small businesses and holds customer contact details. "Check" means the obligation turns on a fact the industry does not settle.

When due

Continuously while registered. A material change must be notified no later than 14 days after the provider would reasonably be expected to have become aware of it, and renewal of registration must be applied for at least 180 days before the registration period lapses.

Evidence to keep

Evidence mapped to each HESF domain: academic governance and quality assurance records, course accreditation and review records, student outcome and feedback data, research training policies, information management records; the self-assurance report for renewal; material change notifications sent to TEQSA.

Maximum penalty

The TEQSA Act creates offences and civil penalty provisions, including offering a regulated award without registration (s 105), using the word 'university' without the right category (s 108), and delivering an unaccredited course (s 112). Breaching a condition of registration or course accreditation can contravene a civil penalty provision (ss 113-114), and TEQSA can impose conditions on registration or accreditation

Regulator

TEQSA

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth (national)

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