The Transnational Quality Strategy

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring the high quality and integrity of Australian education and training in all locations in which it is delivered, including outside Australia. 

International engagement has been an important aspect of Australian education and training for many decades, and the delivery of Australian courses and qualifications to international students has grown significantly in recent years. Quality education and training plays a key role in building the long-lasting friendships, business and cultural relationships that develop between students, staff and community members. International engagement through education fosters positive outcomes at individual, national and international levels, and makes an immense contribution to building constructive and positive social, cultural, intellectual and economic ties between countries.

The Transnational Quality Strategy Update February 2008    (42.6 KB)

The Strategy has been implemented through a Working Group of Australian, state and territory government officials, representatives of each education and training sector and international student representatives.  The Working Group was established under the Australian Education Systems Officials Committee (AESOC), which is directly responsible to the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). It has been working in consultation with the Australian Universities Quality Agency and the National Quality Council. 

You can read the minutes of the AESOC Working Group here.

The Transnational Quality Strategy (TQS) was developed in close consultation with representatives of international students, each education and training sector, quality assurance bodies and state and territory governments.

The Strategy focuses action in three key areas and will build upon Australia’s existing highly regarded arrangements. 

The Strategy is underpinned by four key principles:

1. Australia’s quality assurance arrangements should be well understood and well-regarded internationally;
   
   
2. Providers and consumers should be able to clearly understand the accountabilities in the delivery and quality assurance of transnational education and training;
   
   
3. Quality assurance functions should be effective and efficient; and
   
   
4. Courses/programmes delivered within Australia and transnationally should be equivalent in the standard of delivery and outcomes of the course, as determined under nationally recognised quality assurance arrangements.