Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01182:reg:5:p18
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01182
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 18/20)
Character Range: 66035–69241

is issued by the registered provider to intending overseas students and which must accompany their application for a student visa. It confirms the overseas student's eligibility to enrol in the particular course of the registered provider.
Course                            Has the meaning given in the ESOS Act.
Course credit                     Exemption from enrolment in a particular part of the course as a result of previous study, experience or recognition of a competency currently held. Includes academic credit and recognition of prior learning.
Course progress                   The measure of advancement within a course towards the completion of that course irrespective of whether course completion is identified through academic merit or skill based competencies.
CRICOS                            The Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) is the register prescribed under section 14A of the ESOS Act.
Critical incident                 A traumatic event, or the threat of such (within or outside Australia), which causes extreme stress, fear or injury.
Designated State authority (DSA)  Has the meaning given in the ESOS Act.
Education agent                   A person or organisation (in or outside Australia) who recruits overseas students and refers them to education providers. In doing so, the education agent may provide education counselling to overseas students as well as marketing and promotion services to education providers.

                                  Education agent does not refer to an education institution with whom an Australian provider has an agreement for the provision of education (that is teaching activities).
Enrolment                         Where the student has been issued with a CoE to confirm acceptance by the registered provider and is occupying a place in the CRICOS registered course for which the student was accepted and is progressing towards the completion of the course requirements. The period of enrolment includes scheduled breaks between study periods.
ESOS agency                       Has the meaning given by section 6C of the ESOS Act.
Intending overseas student        Has the meaning given in the ESOS Act.
Marketing                         Promotion of the provider and its courses and facilities to prospective overseas students and their parents or guardians, agents, international organisations and other interested parties such as alumni.
Migration agent                   A person registered as a migration agent as per section 286 of the Migration Act 1958.
Mode of study                     Includes attendance face-to-face in a classroom, supervised study on the registered provider's campus, distance learning, online learning and work-based learning.
Overseas student                  Has the meaning given in the ESOS Act.
Principal course of study         The principal course of study refers to the main course of study to be undertaken by an overseas student where a student visa has been issued for multiple courses of study. The principal course of study would normally be the final course of study where the overseas student arrives in Australia with a student visa that