Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Words or Expressions with the Same or Similar Meaning to University) Determination 2021

I, Alan Tudge, Minister for Education and Youth, make the following determination.

Dated 12 April 2021   

Alan Tudge

Minister for Education and Youth

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Words or expressions with the same or similar meaning to university

1  Name

  This instrument is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Words or Expressions with the Same or Similar Meaning to the Word University) Determination 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 204A(3) of the Act.

4  Definition

  In this instrument:

Act means the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

5  Words or expressions with the same or similar meaning to university

The following words or expressions have the same or similar meaning as the word university for the purposes of subparagraph 204A(1)(a)(ii) of the Act:

 (a) Universities;

 (b) Uni, but not where those letters are used as part of a longer word, which is not university (such as community or junior); and

 (c) A word in a foreign language that has the same meaning as the word university.

 Note: Examples of words in foreign languages that have the same meaning as the word university include:

  (a) Universita (Italian);  

  (b) Universität (German);

  (c) Universidad (Spanish);

  (d) Universite (French);

  (e) Universiteit (Dutch);

  (f) Universitet (Danish); and

  (g) Universidade (Portuguese).