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

18   After section 19-95

Insert:

19-97 Schedules of accelerator program course fees

(1) This section applies if a higher education provider is required by section 19-92 to determine an *accelerator program course fee for an *accelerator program course the provider provides or proposes to provide during a period ascertained in accordance with the Higher Education Provider Guidelines.

(2) The provider must give the Minister a schedule of the *accelerator program course fees determined under section 19-92 for all the *accelerator program courses it provides or proposes to provide during the period. It must give the schedule:

(a) in a form approved in writing by the Minister (if any); and

(b) in accordance with the requirements that the Minister determines in writing (if any).

(3) The provider must:

(a) ensure that the schedule provides sufficient information to enable a person to work out, for each *accelerator program course the provider provides or is to provide during the period, the person's *accelerator program course fee; and

(b) publish the schedule for a particular period by the date ascertained in accordance with the Higher Education Provider Guidelines; and

(c) ensure that the schedule is available to all students enrolled, and persons seeking to enrol, with the provider on request and without charge.

Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.