Education law

The law that applies to education providers

Education law and regulation: the Acts, standards and instruments that bind RTOs, CRICOS providers and higher education providers.

IPractice areas

Where we work.

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The instruments

The Acts, standards and legislative instruments that actually bind education providers, and how they interact.

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Obligations

Translating the instrument into what your organisation must do differently.

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Change

Tracking amendments, and what a transition period does and does not permit.

IIWhat goes wrong

The failures worth knowing about in advance.

We list these publicly because most of the value of an adviser is knowing which mistakes are common, and that knowledge is not worth hiding.

Reading the guidance, not the instrument

Regulator guidance is helpful and is not the law. Where they differ, the instrument governs.

Assuming a transition is a holiday

A transition period sets a deadline. It does not suspend the obligation in the meantime.

IIIHow we work

We tell you what we find.

Including when the answer is that you do not need the engagement you asked for. An adviser who never says that is not giving you information, they are giving you an invoice.

Scope of advice

We advise on regulation and practice. Where a matter needs a legal opinion or a financial audit, we will say so and stop rather than improvise.

Start a conversation.

Describe the situation. If it is outside what we do, we will tell you that and point you at who does.