Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00945:reg:80
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00945
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 80
Character Range: 46868–49050

80  Academic suitability
 (1) An approved course provider's student entry procedure must specify that a student is academically suited to undertake a particular approved course if:
 (a) one of the requirements in subsection (2) is met in relation to the student; and
 (b) the student meets any other specified entry requirements for the course; and
 (c) the provider believes on reasonable grounds that the student is academically suited to undertake the course.
Note: The other specified entry requirements could include any prior education qualifications the provider considers are needed for a student to be academically suited to undertake the course.
 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the requirements are that:
 (a) the provider obtains a copy of a Senior Secondary Certificate of Education that has been awarded to the student by an agency or authority of a State or Territory for the student's completion of year 12; or
 (aa) the provider obtains a copy of a diploma that has been awarded to the student for the student's completion of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme; or
 (b) both:
 (i) the student is assessed as displaying competence at or above Exit Level 3 in the Australian Core Skills Framework in both reading and numeracy using an assessment tool approved under section 82; and
 (ii) the provider reasonably believes that the student displays that competence; or
 (c) both:
 (i) the provider obtains a copy of a certificate (however described) that the student has been awarded a qualification, either:
                     A. at level 4 or above in the Australian Qualifications  Framework or at a level in a framework that preceded the Australian Qualifications Framework that is equivalent to level 4 or above in the Australian Qualifications Framework; or
                     B.  that has been assessed by a Federal, State or Territory government agency which assesses overseas qualifications (or an organisation contracted by such an agency to undertake such assessments) as equivalent or comparable to a qualification referred to in sub‑subparagraph (2)(c)(i)(A).

 (ii) the course for the qualification was delivered in English.