Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01607:schedule:1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01607
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 1/10)
Character Range: 2092–5153

Schedule 1—Amendments

Other Grants Guidelines (Education) 2012

  1 Clause i.ii (definition of people or student from a low socio-economic (SES) background)
Repeal the definition.

  2 Clause i.ii – Interpretation (after definition of AMC Institute)
Insert:

campus   means the physical location at which a provider delivers a unit of study. For on-line/distance education courses or where studies require attendance at locations such as a health centre, teaching hospital or agricultural farm, the campus is the location from which the course is administered.

  3 Clause i.ii – Interpretation (after definition of the Department)
Insert:

                  external  means a mode of attendance for a unit of study whereby the provider delivers the course materials to the student and the student is not required to attend classes on campus on a regular basis.

  4 Clause i.ii – Interpretation (after definition of Field of Education (FOE))

                  headquarters  means a provider's campus location where the sum of the internal and multi-modal EFTSL of Commonwealth supported students is the largest.

                  HEIMS means the Higher Education Information Management System.

  5 Clause i.ii – Interpretation (after definition of HESDC)
Insert:

                  internal  means a mode of attendance for a unit of study whereby the student must attend classes at the provider's facilities on a regular basis.

  6 Clause i.ii – Interpretation (after definition of Minister)
Insert:

                  multi-modal  means a mode of attendance for a unit of study that is undertaken partially in an internal mode of attendance and partially in an external mode.

  7 Clause i.ii – Interpretation (after definition of ISP)
Insert:
                  low SES background refers to a student or person who has a home address in the lowest quartile, by Statistical Area 1, as referred to in the document published by the Australian Statistician entitled Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA).

  8 Chapter 1 – Grants to Promote Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education

Repeal Part 3, substitute:

PART 3 – INDIGENOUS, REGIONAL AND LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ATTAINMENT FUND (IRLSAF)

1.40 Purpose

    1.40.1 The Indigenous, Regional and Low Socio-Economic Status Attainment Fund (IRLSAF) is specified as a program for the purposes of subsection 41‑15(1) of the Act. This Part also specifies matters listed in subsection 41‑15(2) of the Act in relation to that program.

    1.40.5 The purpose of the IRLSAF is to promote equality of opportunity in higher education, in accordance with item 1 of the table in subsection 41‑10(1) of the Act, by providing grants to higher education providers, to encourage the enrolment of Indigenous persons, people from a regional area or a remote area, and people from a low SES background.

1.41 Program objectives

1.41.1   For the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, the IRLSAF consists of five components:
         (a)    the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP);
         (b)