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Higher Education Provider Approval (No. 6 of 2008)

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This document officially approves Cengage Education Pty Ltd as a higher education provider under Australian law.

What this means:

The company can now offer university-level qualifications (like bachelor degrees, diplomas, etc.)
Students studying with this provider may become eligible for Commonwealth financial assistance (such as FEE-HELP loans)
The company gains the legal status needed to operate as a recognised tertiary institution

How it works: The approval is made under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 by a delegate of the Minister for Education. It is a specific administrative decision (not a law change) that applies only to this one company. The approval becomes active after a standard waiting period during which Parliament could theoretically disallow it (though this rarely happens).

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Higher Education Provider Approval (No. 6 of 2008)

INSTRUMENT OF APPROVAL

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Higher Education Support Act 2003

Higher Education Provider Approval (No 6 of 2008)

Approval pursuant to section 16-25 and notice of approval pursuant to paragraph 16-50(1)(b).

I, Colin Walters, a delegate of the Minister for Education for the purposes of section

16-25 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (‘the HESA’) have approved Cengage Education Pty Ltd as a higher education provider under that section of the HESA, and:

a) note that the application of Cengage Education Pty Ltd for approval as a higher education provider has thereby been decided as required by paragraph 16-50(1)(a) of the HESA; and

b) pursuant to paragraph 16-50(1)(b) of the HESA give notice of my approval to Cengage Education Pty Ltd.

In accordance with section 16-55 of the HESA and subsection 12(3) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, this notice of approval takes effect on the day after the last day on which a House of Parliament could have passed a resolution disallowing it.

Dated this 29th day of July 2008

[signed]

Colin Walters

Group Manager, Higher Education Group

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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