| Decision: | Rejected |
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| Date of decision: | 25 June 2025 |
| Main reasons for decision: |
The decisions were made on the basis that TEQSA was not satisfied that Veda Education Pty Ltd meets the following provisions of the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021:
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| Review stage: |
| Decision: | Rejected |
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| Date of decision: | 11 June 2025 |
| Main reasons for decision: |
The decisions were made on the basis that TEQSA was not satisfied that Virtu Design Institute Pty Ltd meets the following provisions of the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021:
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| Review stage: |
| Decision: | Rejected |
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| Date of decision: | 19 June 2025 |
| Main reasons for decision: |
The decisions were made on the basis that TEQSA was not satisfied that New Medical Education Pty Ltd meets the following criteria for establishing a greenfield ‘University College’ B1.2:
The decision to reject the application for accreditation of the course was made as a consequence of the application for registration being rejected. |
| Review stage: |
TEQSA registers all providers of higher education in Australia.
We consider if applicants meet the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021.
If we approve an application, we publish that decision on the National Register.
If we reject to an application, we share that decision on this page.
| Applicant’s name | Date of decision | Decision type | Details |
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| New Medical Education Australia Pty Ltd | 19 June 2025 |
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View more information on New Medical Education Australia's application outcome |
| Virtu Design Institute Pty Ltd | 11 June 2025 |
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View more information on Virtu Design Institute's application outcome |
| Veda Education Pty Ltd | 25 June 2025 |
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View more information on Veda Education's application outcome |
| Queen Anne School of Management Pty Ltd | 5 February 2025 |
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View more information on Queen Anne School of Management's application outcome |
| Armstrong Institute Pty Limited | 19 June 2024 |
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View more information on Armstrong Institute's application outcome |
| AIM Insitute of Higher Education Pty Ltd | 27 November 2023 |
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View more information on AIM Insitute of Higher Education's application outcome |
| NewLaw Academy Pty Ltd | 5 June 2023 |
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View more information on NewLaw Academy's application outcome |
| Southeast Education Pty Ltd | 10 May 2021 |
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View more information on Southeast Education's application outcome |
| SSBI International Pty Ltd | 6 August 2020 |
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View more information on SSBI International's application outcome |
| Syme Business School Pty Ltd | 8 May 2019 |
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View more information on Syme Business School's application outcome |
| National Institute of Integrative Medicine Ltd | 9 May 2018 |
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View more information on National Institute of Integrative Medicine's application outcome |
| Rosary Tertiary Institute Australia Pty Ltd | 28 March 2018 |
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View more information on Rosary Tertiary Institute's application outcome |
| National Business and Technology Institute Pty Ltd | 8 February 2018 |
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View more information on the National Business and Technology Institute's application outcome |
The Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 (HES Framework) has applied since 1 July 2021.
From a regulatory perspective, all applications made:
View the Material Change Notification Policy.
Please direct any feedback to standards@teqsa.gov.au.
Guidance notes are concise documents designed to provide high-level, principles-based guidance on interpretation and application of specific standards of the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021. They also draw attention to other interrelated standards and highlight potential risks to compliance.
TEQSA is working to enhance its suite of guidance notes and will keep providers updated on our progress through our monthly e-News (subscribe here) and our social media channels.
We recognise and value the importance of drawing on knowledge of lived experience in the higher education sector.
Please view our Consultation page to learn more about present opportunities to provide feedback.
The resources published on this page are not instructional or ‘how to’ documents for compliance with the new HES Framework.
TEQSA publishes guidance notes to provide greater clarity for providers in the interpretation and application of selected standards. Guidance notes draw on our regulatory experience and knowledge of experts in the higher education sector.
Guidance notes usually focus on a single topic (such as academic leadership, for example). The guidance note typically outlines:
Comments and feedback on guidance notes can be emailed to standards@teqsa.gov.au.
A Statement of Regulatory Expectations (SRE) is a regulatory tool TEQSA uses to address systemic ongoing or acute emerging risks to compliance with the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021.
This guidance sets out the principles and considerations that TEQSA will have regard to when assessing fitness and propriety for the purposes of the TEQSA Act.
This document provides guidance to providers on selecting a suitable independent expert to conduct a review or seek expert advice as part of their internal quality assurance processes.
TEQSA has opened consultation on the following 3 draft documents:
This consultation closes at 5:00pm (AEST) on Friday 22 August 2025.
You can submit feedback to consultation@teqsa.gov.au. Submissions in Microsoft Word or PDF format are preferred.
This consultation supports TEQSA’s work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector by continuing to enhance our suite of guidance notes.
We have developed key aspects of our regulatory approach in consultation with higher education stakeholders. We recognise that consultation influences the quality of our relations with the higher education sector and can be an important way of collecting evidence which allows us to meet the objects of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (TEQSA Act).
TEQSA is working to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector by continuing to enhance our suite of guidance notes.
To support this project, TEQSA has opened consultation on the following 3 draft documents:
This consultation closes at 5:00pm (AEST) on Friday 22 August 2025.
You can submit feedback to consultation@teqsa.gov.au. Submissions in Microsoft Word or PDF format are preferred.
(Closed 18 July 2025)
TEQSA is working to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector by continuing to enhance our suite of guidance notes.
To support this project, TEQSA opened consultation on the following 3 draft documents:
(Closed 27 March 2025)
TEQSA is seeking feedback on new regulatory guidance that has been developed to support safety and wellbeing in higher education.
TEQSA is consulting on 2 documents:
(Closed 28 October 2024)
In accordance with the Australian Government Charging Policy, TEQSA annually reviews the operation of our Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS).
Following an internal review of the 2023 version of the CRIS, TEQSA has developed a consultation paper for the sector.
This paper outlines several proposed adjustments to ensure our fees and charges (to take effect from 1 January 2025) accurately reflect the cost of our regulatory activities.
(Closed 20 May 2024)
TEQSA commenced a service charter review in early 2023. The first phase of consultation was a stakeholder survey about our service charter in August 2023.
We’ve now developed a revised service charter informed by the survey results.
This was the second phase of consultation and sought further feedback from stakeholders.
(Closed 20 May 2024)
To support the development of a draft stakeholder engagement strategy.
(Closed 20 May 2024)
Consultation for a proposal to amend the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Fit and Proper Person Determination 2018 (Determination).
(Closed 15 March 2024)
In 2023, TEQSA consulted stakeholders on the following guidance notes:
These notes focus on 3 sections of the Threshold Standards that are unified in their intent to protect and provide support to students. TEQSA sought further stakeholder feedback that identified:
(Closed 9 February 2024)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are continuing to enhance TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for higher education providers.
(Closed 20 November 2023)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are continuing to enhance TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for registered higher education providers.
(Closed 20 October 2023)
TEQSA invited feedback on the proposals outlined in the Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence discussion paper, including the principles and propositions.
At the end of the consultation period, TEQSA and the lead authors of this document will consider all feedback received before publishing the final guidelines in late November 2023.
If you have any questions about this consultation, or the guiding principles, please email us at integrityunit@teqsa.gov.au.
(Closed 25 September 2023)
In accordance with the Australian Government Charging Policy, TEQSA annually reviews the operation of our Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS).
Following an internal review of the 2022 version of the CRIS, TEQSA developed a consultation paper for the sector. This paper outlined several proposed adjustments to ensure our fees and charges for 2024 accurately reflect the cost of our regulatory activities and the changes we’ve made to streamline processes since the 2022 version of the CRIS was developed.
See: How we consult on fees and charges for more information
(Survey closed 25 September 2023)
Insights from the survey will help us to develop a draft service charter, which we will release for further comment at a later date. Following this consultation, TEQSA will consider stakeholder feedback before adopting our revised service charter.
See: Service charter review for more information.
(Closed 10 August 2023)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are continuing to enhance TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for registered higher education providers.
(Closed 13 July 2023)
Since the release of the Good Practice Note: Preventing and responding to sexual assault and sexual harassment in the Australian higher education sector (the 2020 good practice note), TEQSA acknowledges there has been significant work across the sector to embed strategies to prevent and respond to sexual assault and sexual harassment, however, the issue remains a key risk.
(Closed 13 July 2023)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are continuing to enhance TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for registered higher education providers.
(Closed 7 March 2023)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are continuing to enhance TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for registered higher education providers.
(Closed 16 December 2022)
TEQSA has commenced a consultation process for proposed amendments to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Register) Guidelines 2017 (Register Guidelines).
The reason for the proposed amendments is to promote transparency regarding TEQSA's regulatory decisions and actions and remove any doubt about which trading names the Register must include in respect of registered providers' higher education operations.
TEQSA received two submissions during the consultation period.
Both submissions supported the inclusion of the additional information proposed in the consultation paper. One submission opposed the removal of previous trading names and the other supported it (while noting that this information may be useful to future students).
(Closed 7 September 2022)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are enhancing TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for registered higher education providers.
This work will reinforce the role of guidance notes to provide guidance that focuses on a specific section of the Higher Education Standards Framework (2021) while drawing attention to connections with other sections and highlighting potential compliance issues.
Following sector feedback during consultation last year, this project will ultimately reduce the number of guidance notes from 32 to 28 to ensure each guidance note aligns with a section of the Standards framework. Sector feedback has also informed the development of a new, simpler template for guidance notes.
The draft guidance note outlines what TEQSA will look for when considering university research in relation to requirements outlined in the TEQSA Act and Higher Education Standards Framework (2021).
(Closed 6 July 2022)
To support TEQSA’s ongoing work to improve the efficiency of our regulatory operations and support greater self-assurance within the higher education sector, we are enhancing TEQSA’s suite of guidance notes for registered higher education providers.
This work will reinforce the role of guidance notes to provide guidance that focuses on a specific section of the Higher Education Standards Framework (2021) while drawing attention to connections with other sections and highlighting potential compliance issues.
Following sector feedback during consultation last year, this project will ultimately reduce the number of guidance notes from 32 to 28 to ensure each guidance note aligns with a section of the Standards framework. Sector feedback has also informed the development of a new, simpler template for guidance notes.
The Guidance Note outlines, with regard to the Higher Education Standards Framework, what TEQSA will look for and common issues associated with Research and Research Training.
(Closed 26 November 2021)
The Register Guidelines is a legislative instrument that sets out the information that TEQSA must enter on the National Register in respect of each registered higher education provider.
The Information Guidelines is a legislative instrument that sets out the Commonwealth authorities and the State or Territory authorities to which TEQSA may disclose higher education information under sections 189 and 194 of the TEQSA Act.
(Closed 10 November 2021)
On 1 July 2021 the new Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 (HESF) came into effect.
TEQSA is reviewing the current suite of guidance notes to ensure they reflect the requirements of the new HESF.
As part of this review, TEQSA developed a new template to streamline our guidance materials.
(Closed 3 June 2021)
On 30 April 2021, TEQSA released the TEQSA Fees and Charges Consultation Paper for feedback from the sector. The consultation paper outlined the details of TEQSA’s proposed approach for transitioning to the new cost recovery arrangements.
(Closed 28 April 2021)
In February 2021, the Australian Parliament passed the Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Category Standards and Other Measures) Bill 2020. The Bill gives effect to the Australian Government’s decision to implement all 10 recommendations arising from the Provider Category Standards review conducted in 2019.
Among other things, the Bill amends the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (TEQSA Act) to allow TEQSA to make a determination of the matters which it must have regard to when assessing the quality of the research undertaken by a provider which is registered, or applies to be registered, in the Australian University category. By approval from the Minister, this determination becomes a legislative instrument.
TEQSA proposes to make a determination which sets out a number of matters which are relevant to an assessment of research quality. The list is non-exhaustive and does not specify benchmarks or thresholds for quality; it is a determination of considerations in an assessment of research quality.
(Closed 14 December 2020)
TEQSA sought to review whether its current approach to assessing claims of scholarship and scholarly activity (as described in the Guidance Note on Scholarship) is adequate, or if the approach needs to be reconceptualised. The purpose of this discussion paper was to set out, for consideration by the sector and other stakeholders, draft principles that were proposed to guide providers in making claims related to scholarship, and to inform TEQSA’s assessments of such claims.
(Closed 27 March 2020)
TEQSA sought feedback on the Commonwealth, State and Territory bodies that we proposed to include in an update to our Information Guidelines.
The Information Guidelines is a legislative instrument that sets out the Commonwealth authorities and the State or Territory authorities to which TEQSA may disclose higher education information under sections 189 and 194 of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.
(Closed 1 December 2017)
As a consequence of the passing of the Education Legislative Amendment (Provider Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2017, TEQSA is able to specify matters that the agency may have regard to in deciding whether a person is a fit and proper person for the purposes of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.
(Closed 14 March 2017)
TEQSA sought feedback, via a consultation paper, on the proposed changes to the publication of regulatory decisions.
The consultation focused on proposed changes to the frequency and way we published decisions.
Questions about whether we should publish more information, including rejections, involve an important balance between the interests of higher education providers, students and other stakeholders.
The developments in our practices and in the approaches of other agencies meant that it was timely to revisit these issues.
We proposed that a simplified set of principles be adopted, informed by approaches of other Australian Government agencies, to guide our future approach.
As part of the consultation process, we will carefully consider all feedback before we make any changes to our approach. We are committed to ensuring that all stakeholders have an opportunity to provide us with their views.
Our approach to consultation is guided by the regulatory principles of: reflecting risk, proportionality and necessity. Our consultations are also guided by the principles outlined in TEQSA’s approach to consultation.
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