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TERTIARY EDUCATION QUALITY AND STANDARDS AGENCY BILL 2011

                                  2010-2011


               THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA


                                   SENATE


          TERTIARY EDUCATION QUALITY AND STANDARDS AGENCY BILL 2011


                   ADDENDUM TO THE EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM




PART 3 - CLAUSE 26 (Page 20)

At the end of clause 26 add the following paragraphs:

'For the purposes of clause 26, a course of study offered by a registered
higher education provider is not provided wholly or partly by another
entity where the provider merely gives credit to a student for study
undertaken with another entity (such as recognition of prior learning or
student exchanges).  Therefore clause 26 does not apply in relation to a
provider where the study a student is required to undertake with the
provider to complete a course of study offered by the provider is reduced
because the provider gives recognition or credit to the student for some
study or qualification provided to the student by another entity. 

However, a course of study offered by a provider is provided wholly or
partly by another entity where the provider requires or allows the student
to undertake study provided by another entity as part of the course of
study offered by the provider.'







  (Circulated by authority of the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills,
                        Jobs and Workplace Relations)