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No 17 House of Representatives Supplementary Order Paper Tuesday, 27 February 2018 Education (Tertiary Education and Other Matters) Amendment Bill Proposed amendments Hon Paul Goldsmith, in Committee, to move the following amendments: Clause 9 In clause 9(1), after the definition of educational outcome (page 5, after line 15), in- sert: equal treatment principle means the principle set out in section 159NA(1) New clauses 12 and 13 After clause 11 (page 6, after line 24), insert: 12 New section 159NA inserted (Funding mechanisms consistent with principle of equal treatment of all tertiary education providers) After section 159N, insert: 159NA Funding mechanisms consistent with principle of equal treatment of all tertiary education providers (1) Every funding mechanism must be consistent with the principle that an activity or approved programme or training scheme is to be fun- ded at the same rate as a directly comparable activity or directly comparable approved programme or training scheme, regardless of the identities of the tertiary education providers concerned.
(2) Despite subsection (1), the Commission may provide funding at different rates if there is a difference in the extent to which each ter- tiary education provider has achieved its proposed outcomes in rela- 1 SOP No 17 Education (Tertiary Education and Other Matters) Amendment Bill Proposed amendments to tion to the activity or approved programme or training scheme, as measured by the performance indicators— (a) (b) specified in the plan in relation to which funding approval is given; or agreed with the Commission if funding is given under section 159ZC.
(3) Despite subsection (1), the Commission may provide funding at different rates, or provide funding on a different basis, if that is in accordance with a funding mechanism— (a) that uses a contestable funding process to reach decisions on the allocation of funding between tertiary education providers in respect of directly comparable activities or directly com- parable approved programmes or training schemes; or (b) that is designed to allocate funding between tertiary educa- tion providers based on performance.
(4) For the purposes of this section and section 159O,— (a) (b) activities are directly comparable if the proposed outcomes in relation to the activities are the same or substantially the same; and approved programmes or training schemes are directly com- parable if the qualifications resulting from their successful completion are the same or substantially the same.
(5) In this section and section 159O,— activity includes anything, except for an approved programme or training scheme, for which funding may be provided under a fund- ing mechanism proposed outcomes means the outcomes proposed in the plan in re- lation to which funding approval is given or, if funding is given under section 159ZC, the outcomes agreed with the Commission.
13 (2) Section 159O amended (Commission to implement funding mechanisms) In section 159O, insert as subsection (2): The Commission, in implementing the funding mechanisms, must have regard to the equal treatment principle.
2 Proposed amendments to Education (Tertiary Education and Other Matters) Amendment Bill SOP No 17 Explanatory note This Supplementary Order Paper inserts new clauses 12 and 13 to establish the prin- ciple that providers with similar offerings and outcomes for students should receive the same rate of funding.

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