Private provider lobby calls for hold on charges  

With borders not opening private providers that have been doing it tough expect to do it tougher (CMM Friday).  A peak body calls for continuing help from the feds

Independent Tertiary Education Council of Australia asks for existing federal assistance to stay and that new charges not start.

Specifically, ITECA asks that Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency fees and charges for already registered providers now waived stay that way for an extra year, to end June 2022.

ITECA also asks that TEQSA delay full cost recovery until then.

“Independent HE providers continue to face challenges associated with intermittent border closures and mandatory short-term discontinuation of on-campus study, ITECA’s Troy Williams tells Education Minister Alan Tudge.