Education (Work Experience) Act 1996
sec.4Work experience arrangements etc.
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sec.4 Work experience arrangements etc.
A work experience arrangement is an arrangement made between a student’s educational establishment and a person (the work experience provider ) under which the person will provide experience ( work experience ) to the student as part of the student’s education. However, an arrangement made by a registered higher education provider is not a work experience arrangement if— it is for the provision of experience to a student enrolled in a course provided by the registered higher education provider; and the experience is a mandatory or assessable part of the course. In this section— registered higher education provider see the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cwlth) , section 5 . s 4 amd 1996 No. 65 s 52 sch 2 ; 2014 No. 25 s 223 sch 1 pt 2 (sec.4-ssec.1) A work experience arrangement is an arrangement made between a student’s educational establishment and a person (the work experience provider ) under which the person will provide experience ( work experience ) to the student as part of the student’s education. (sec.4-ssec.2) However, an arrangement made by a registered higher education provider is not a work experience arrangement if— it is for the provision of experience to a student enrolled in a course provided by the registered higher education provider; and the experience is a mandatory or assessable part of the course. (sec.4-ssec.3) In this section— registered higher education provider see the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cwlth) , section 5 .
- (a) it is for the provision of experience to a student enrolled in a course provided by the registered higher education provider; and
- (b) the experience is a mandatory or assessable part of the course.