Vocational education and training (VET):Vocational education and training (VET): course progress and attendance requirements

Vocational education and training (VET): course progress and attendance requirements

1. The registered provider of a VET course as defined in the NVETR Act must have and implement a documented policy and process for assessing course progress that includes:
   1. requirements for achieving satisfactory course progress, including policies that promote and uphold the academic integrity of the registered course and meet the training package or accredited course requirements where applicable, and processes to address misconduct and allegations of misconduct
   2. processes for recording and assessing course progress requirements
   3. processes to identify overseas students at risk of unsatisfactory course progress
   4. details of the registered provider’s intervention strategy to assist overseas students at risk of not meeting course progress requirements in sufficient time for those overseas students to achieve satisfactory course progress
   5. processes for determining the point at which the overseas student has failed to meet satisfactory course progress.
2. The registered provider must have and implement a documented policy and process for monitoring the attendance of overseas students if the requirement to implement and maintain minimum attendance requirements for overseas students is set as a condition of the provider’s registration by an ESOS agency.
3. If an ESOS agency requires a VET provider to monitor overseas student attendance as a condition of registration, the minimum requirement for attendance is 80 per cent of the scheduled contact hours for the course.
4. If an ESOS agency requires a VET provider to monitor overseas student attendance, the registered provider must have and implement a documented policy and process for monitoring and recording attendance of the overseas student, specifying:
   1. the method for working out minimum attendance under this standard
   2. processes for recording course attendance
   3. 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
   4. processes for determining the point at which the overseas student has failed to meet satisfactory course attendance.