Guidance note: Financial assessment
The financial status of a higher education provider can significantly affect its ability to support quality in its higher education delivery to students.
Guidance note: Financial standing
Financial standing relates to the core financial information a stakeholder would need access to in order to make an informed decision about whether to enter into an agreement with a higher education provider.
Guidance note: Varying a period of registration or accreditation
This guidance note covers the processes of TEQSA either shortening or cancelling a higher education provider’s period of registration or accreditation of courses of study.
Guidance note: Monitoring and analysis of student performance
While many higher education providers monitor and analyse student performance data in some form, TEQSA has identified that, in many instances, student performance data could be enhanced and used more effectively by providers to identify problems and risks early.
Guidance note: Nested courses of study
Nested courses is interpreted to mean a set of courses of study that are offered sequentially and can lead to qualifications at different Australian Qualifications Framework levels.
Guidance note: Research and research training
Research is defined as the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way by a higher education provider so as to generate new concepts, methodologies, inventions and understandings.
Guidance note: Transnational higher education into Australia (including international providers seeking to offer higher education in Australia)
Transnational Education (TNE) into Australia encompasses providers based outside of Australia who provide, or are seeking to provide, education to students located in Australia.
Guidance note: Academic governance
Academic governance is the framework of policies, structures, relationships, systems and processes that collectively provide leadership to and oversight of a higher education provider’s academic activities at an institutional level.
Guidance note: Credit and recognition of prior learning
Credit is obtained on the basis of evidence that the student has already undertaken learning that is deemed to be equivalent to the parts of the course of study for which credit has been granted.
Guidance note: Determining equivalence of professional experience and academic qualifications
Where providers identify a need to rely on an assessment of professional equivalence for the purpose of appointing staff, TEQSA expects that they will have a policy and procedure under which professional equivalence is determined and approved.