Part 1, Division 2, Section 3 · Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

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The objects of this Act are:

(a)to provide for national consistency in the regulation of higher education; and

(b)to regulate higher education using:

(i)a standards-based quality framework; and

(ii)principles relating to regulatory necessity, risk and proportionality; and

(c)to protect and enhance:

(i)Australia’s reputation for quality higher education and training services; and

(ii)Australia’s international competitiveness in the higher education sector; and

(iii)excellence, diversity and innovation in higher education in Australia; and

(d)to encourage and promote a higher education system that is appropriate to meet Australia’s social and economic needs for a highly educated and skilled population; and

(e)to protect students undertaking, or proposing to undertake, higher education in Australia by requiring the provision of quality higher education; and

(f)to ensure students undertaking, or proposing to undertake, higher education, have access to information relating to higher education in Australia; and

(g)to protect and enhance the academic integrity of courses provided by higher education providers by prohibiting academic cheating services.

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