Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP Reform) Act 2015 (168 of 2015)

Schedule 1   VET FEE-HELP Reform amendments

Part 1   Main amendments

Higher Education Support Act 2003

7A   Subclause 26(1) of Schedule 1A

Repeal the subclause, substitute:

(1) The Minister may require a *VET provider to be audited:

(a) about compliance with any or all of the following requirements:

(i) the *VET financial viability requirements;

(ii) the *VET fairness requirements;

(iii) the *VET compliance requirements;

(iv) the *VET fee requirements;

(v) other requirements for VET quality and accountability set out in the *VET Guidelines; or

(b) about any or all of the following matters relating to *VET courses of study provided by the VET provider:

(i) the approaches used to recruit or enrol students (or potential students) of those courses who receive (or who could receive) *VET FEE-HELP assistance for *VET units of study forming part of those courses;

(ii) the veracity of enrolments in those courses of students who receive VET FEE-HELP assistance for VET units of study forming part of those courses;

(iii) the level of teaching resources, or the quality of those resources, for any of those courses;

(iv) the level of engagement in any of those courses of students who receive VET FEE-HELP assistance for VET units of study forming part of those courses;

(v) the completion rates for any of those courses of students who receive VET FEE-HELP assistance for VET units of study forming part of those courses.