Higher Education Support (Other Grants) Amendment (Higher Education Continuity Guarantee) Guidelines 2024 (Cth)

Higher Education Support (Other Grants) Amendment (Higher Education Continuity Guarantee) Guidelines 2024

I, Jason Clare, Minister for Education, make the following guidelines.

Dated 11 December 2024

Jason Clare Minister for Education

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Schedules Schedule 1—Amendments Higher Education Support (Other Grants) Guidelines 2022

1 Name This instrument is the Higher Education Support (Other Grants) Amendment (Higher Education Continuity Guarantee) Guidelines 2024.

2 Commencement This instrument commences the day after this instrument is registered.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 238-10 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003.

4 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Higher Education Support (Other Grants) Guidelines 2022

1 Part 8 (heading) Repeal the heading, substitute:

Part 8—Grants to promote equality of opportunity in higher education, and to assure and enhance the quality of Australia's higher education sector—Higher Education Continuity Guarantee

2 After Part 8 (heading) Insert:

Division 1—Higher Education Continuity Guarantee – Quality

3 Subsection 60(1) After "Higher Education Continuity Guarantee", insert " – Quality".

4 Subsection 60(2) After "Higher Education Continuity Guarantee", insert " – Quality".

5 Section 62 After "Higher Education Continuity Guarantee", insert " – Quality".

6 After section 63 Insert:

Division 2—Higher Education Continuity Guarantee – Equity

63A Program objectives (1) The Higher Education Continuity Guarantee – Equity is specified as a program for the purpose of promoting equality of opportunity in higher education, under item 1 of the table in subsection 41-10(1) of the Act. (2) The objective of the Higher Education Continuity Guarantee – Equity is to provide grants to assist higher education providers with attracting and providing support to the following cohorts of students to participate and succeed in higher education (equity cohorts): (a) students from low socio-economic backgrounds; (b) students from regional and remote areas of Australia; (c) students who are the first in their family to access higher education; (d) Indigenous persons; and (e) students with disability.