Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Act 2023 (36 of 2023)

Schedule 1   Startup year

Part 1   STARTUP-HELP assistance

Higher Education Support Act 2003

4   Subsection 19-35(5)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(5) A higher education provider that receives any payment under section 128D-1 on account of amounts of *STARTUP-HELP assistance for an *accelerator program course must have open, fair and transparent procedures that, in the provider's reasonable view, are based on merit for making decisions about:

(a) the selection, from among the persons who seek to enrol with the provider in that accelerator program course, of persons to enrol; and

(b) the selection of students for receipt of STARTUP-HELP assistance in relation to that accelerator program course; and

(c) the treatment of students undertaking that accelerator program course.

(6) Subsections (4) and (5) do not prevent a higher education provider taking into account, in making decisions mentioned in those subsections, educational disadvantages that a particular student has experienced.