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• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 [2011]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  in relation to: the registration process for approved providers; financial penalties; and the publication of certain information;

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to enable the Ombudsman to: provide an independent complaints body for overseas students of private registered providers; provide advice and training to private registered providers to facilitate best practice complaint handling; and review and investigate complaint handling and report on systemic issues; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to enable the Australian Information Commissioner to transfer certain complaints to the Overseas Students Ombudsman. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to: include education to overseas students on Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands; facilitate course delivery across state boundaries; require international education providers to have written agreements with all overseas students; and remove the penalty for late payment of the annual Assurance Fund contribution. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection Service and Other Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a tuition protection service, the bill amends: the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: place obligations on registered international education providers when a provider fails to start or finish providing a course or when an overseas student fails to start or finish a course; provide for a national regime of national registration of providers; limit the amount of initial pre-paid fees that may be collected by a registered provider; provide that students are only eligible for a refund of the unused portion of prepaid tuition fees; and specify what details providers must keep on student records; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. Also repeals the

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Assurance Fund Contributions) Act 2000

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (2006 Measures No. 2) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Sep 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to implement certain recommendations of the 3-year review of the Act, including clarifying provisions relating to providers’ consumer protection and reporting obligations; and makes technical amendments in relation to the administration of the Act. Also makes a consequential amendment to the

  Migration Act 1958

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (2006 Measures No. 1) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to implement recommendations of the 3-year review of the Act, particularly in relation to: application of the “fit and proper” test; clarification of obligations in relation to receipt of course money and provision of refunds; automatic suspension for failure to pay the Annual Registration Charge; removal of a suspension on payment of outstanding amounts; and access to student information by Tuition Assurance Schemes; and

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997

  to require a provider to pay an initial registration charge before registration. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Aug 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Training and Youth Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education and Training 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2017, the bill amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: provide that the Tuition Protection Service (TPS) Director is responsible for working out, as opposed to setting, the amount of the TPS levy each year; and provide that the TPS Director must determine the TPS levy amount in accordance with the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: clarify the arrangements for refunds of pre-paid tuition fees by registered providers to overseas students as a result of a default; enable the minister to make a legislative instrument to stipulate the methods of calculation for refunds to students in the case of default for the reason of visa refusal or where there is no written agreement in place; and amend the title of the National Code. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: enable certain foreign-owned and operated higher education providers to offer education and training services to overseas students in Australia; clarify that registered providers may charge a fee to international students as part of tuition to cover the costs incurred in meeting the provider’s obligations under the Act and the National Code of Practice; and as a consequence of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Aug 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: clarify the definition of “registered provider”; clarify to whom refunds of student monies should be paid in the case of student default; provide greater flexibility to impose sanctions in cases of non-compliance, including the ability to impose lesser sanctions; and correct technical anomalies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum