Division 8Other tuition protection requirements

Division 8 – Other tuition protection requirements

18 Notification about the collection of personal information and tuition protection (1) For the purposes of paragraph 26A(3)(b) of the Act, the registered higher education provider must provide a domestic student at or before the time or, if that is not practicable, as soon as practicable after, a provider collects personal information about the student for the purposes of enrolment in an Australian course of study or unit of study: (a) general information about the operation of tuition protection under Part 5A of the Act; (b) notification of the collection of personal information for the purposes of tuition protection. (2) The notification of collection in paragraph 18(1)(b) must inform the student of the following matters: (a) that the registered higher education provider must disclose certain personal information to the Secretary under the Act, including: (i) the student’s name, date of birth, contact details and identifiers; (ii) the student’s study arrangements and details including enrolments and course progress; (iii) the student’s payment arrangement, including tuition fees paid or payable, scholarships and payments by third parties; (b) that the Secretary may disclose this personal information to the Higher Education Tuition Protection Director in the event of a likely default or default by the provider for the Director to perform functions and powers under the Act; (c) that the Secretary and the Director may disclose some of this personal information to the Australian Government Actuary for the purposes of the up-front payments tuition protection levy payable under the Levy Act; and (d) that further details about how the Secretary and the Director handle personal information is set out in their respective privacy policies.

Note: Registered higher education providers may have other privacy obligations under other laws, including the Privacy Act 1988.