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TOTAL RESULTS: 106
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24 Nov 2011
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Senate
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: provide that the minister retains the power to decide an application for approval as a higher education provider although the required timeframe may have expired; require VET providers to notify the minister in writing of events which may affect their ability to comply with quality and accountability requirements; provide for the authorisation of certain uses and disclosures of information; allow the secretary to revoke or vary any determination made to pay an advance to a VET provider in certain circumstances; clarify that a VET provider must provide statistical and other information although an approved form of provision has not been specified; and make administrative arrangements relating to the assessment of an individual’s higher education loan program debt.
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04 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to list University College London as an eligible provider to enable it to offer FEE-HELP assistance to eligible domestic students.
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- Date
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13 Feb 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: remove the requirement for higher education providers to meet the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements and the National Governance Protocols as a condition of Commonwealth Grant Scheme funding; and make minor technical amendments.
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- Date
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10 Feb 2011
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to make administrative changes to the FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP programs by: requiring the minister to be satisfied that a body corporate is ‘fit and proper’; providing flexibility in the ‘principal purpose’ requirements; enabling the minister to give qualified approvals; providing for procedural fairness before a provider’s approval is suspended; and including new decisions which are subject to review.
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- Date
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12 May 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
- Summary
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In response to a recommendation of the
Review of Australian Higher Education
(the Bradley Review), the bill amends the Higher Education Support Act 2003
to replace the Safety Net Adjustment wage price index with the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services wage price index published by the Australian Statistician.
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- Date
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20 Oct 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to increase the loan fee for FEE-HELP for fee paying undergraduate students to 25 per cent.
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- Date
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10 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Education
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to increase the loan fee for FEE-HELP for fee paying undergraduate students to 25 per cent.
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- Date
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21 Jun 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Science and Training
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to extend FEE-HELP assistance to full-fee-paying students in Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses that are accredited as vocational education and training qualifications and where credit toward a higher education award is available.
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- Date
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26 May 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: remove the annual caps on Commonwealth Grant Scheme funding; change the way in which higher education providers are eligible for that funding; abolish the student learning entitlement; require higher education providers to enter into mission-based compacts with the Commonwealth; and require higher education providers to uphold free intellectual inquiry in relation to learning, teaching and research.
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17 Sep 2003
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Education, Science and Training
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Part of a package of three bills to establish a framework for the Commonwealth funding of higher education, the bill amends the proposed
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to abolish compulsory student unionism in higher education institutions which receive Commonwealth funding.
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