Schools, ELICOS and Foundation Programs:Schools, ELICOS and Foundation Programs: course progress and attendance requirements

Schools, ELICOS and Foundation Programs: course progress and attendance requirements

1. The registered provider of a school, ELICOS or Foundation Program course must have and implement a documented policy and process for monitoring and recording attendance of the overseas student, specifying:

   1. requirements for achieving satisfactory attendance for the course which at a minimum must be 80 per cent—or higher if specified under state or territory legislation or other regulatory requirements—of the scheduled contact hours
   2. the method for working out minimum attendance under this standard
   3. processes for recording course attendance
   4. details of the registered provider’s intervention strategy to identify, notify and assist overseas students who have been absent for more than five consecutive days without approval, or who are at risk of not meeting attendance requirements before the overseas student’s attendance drops below 80 per cent
   5. processes for determining the point at which the overseas student has failed to meet satisfactory course attendance.

2. The registered provider must have and implement a documented policy and process for monitoring and recording course progress for the overseas student, specifying:

   1. requirements for achieving satisfactory course progress for the course
   2. processes for recording and assessing course progress

3. details of the registered provider’s intervention strategy to identify, notify and assist students at risk of not meeting course progress requirements in sufficient time for those students to achieve satisfactory course progress

4. processes for determining the point at which the student has failed to meet satisfactory course progress.