This Quick Guide provides an overview of higher education student loans that are provided through the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP). It includes: an introduction that provides background to the program types of loans HECS-HELP FEE-HELP OS-HELP SA-HELP VET FEE-HELP student contribution rates repayment arrangements key statistics budget treatment and information on other income-contingent loans...

This Quick Guide provides key internet links to information about: general tertiary education resources, higher education, vocational education and training (VET), international students, adult and community education, and international organisations.

This Quick Guide provides key internet links to information about: general tertiary education resources, higher education, vocational education and training (VET), international students, adult and community education, and international organisations. Note: administrative arrangements announced on 18 September 2013 have altered departmental responsibility for tertiary education. Therefore, links to the Australian Government websites listed below may...

Measures of student achievement are regularly used in the development and evaluation of education policy. This can include the relative achievement of sub-groups in the community (such as the Closing the Gap targets for Indigenous students), an assessment of demand (such as university entrance scores) and for international comparisons. This guide provides a brief overview...

This paper is a reference tool for those needing to locate specific changes in Australian social security and place them in their chronological context. This chronology is one of several produced by the Parliamentary Library dealing with the history of social security payments. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), the Department of...