Higher Education Advisory Disclaimer
About this disclaimer
Information on this website, AHEG Research (part of the Australian Higher Education Group), is general in nature and is not a substitute for tailored professional advice. AHEG Research provides its services through agreed scopes of work based on the information supplied by the client, applicable regulatory settings and the purpose of the engagement. Regulatory, funding, accreditation, audit, legal, financial, certification or approval outcomes are determined by the relevant authority, body or decision-maker and cannot be guaranteed by website content.
AHEG Research is part of CAQA Groups and a Career Calling International initiative (Career Calling International Pty Ltd, ABN 53 162 651 238). This disclaimer applies to every page of this website.
Who this website is for
This website is written for Australia's higher education community: registered higher education providers, university colleges and institutes of higher education, aspiring providers, and the governing bodies, academic boards, executives, quality managers and course development teams who lead them. Content is prepared with this professional audience in mind and assumes a working knowledge of the sector; it is not written as advice for students, and it does not address the circumstances of any particular provider.
The services described on this website
AHEG Research advises on research governance, research integrity, ethics, higher degrees by research, supervision frameworks, research strategy, research data and research quality assurance. These descriptions exist so you can understand what we do. They are not advice about your circumstances, they are not a formal compliance assessment of your institution, and they do not form an offer capable of acceptance without a written engagement.
Advisory only: no guaranteed outcomes
Everything published on this website is advisory. It does not guarantee, and must not be read as guaranteeing, TEQSA registration or re-registration, course accreditation or re-accreditation, professional-body accreditation, CRICOS registration or any other government approval, funding decision or regulatory outcome. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), professional accreditation bodies, the Department of Education and other authorities make their decisions independently, on the evidence before them and according to their own legislation, standards and processes. AHEG Research can help you prepare high-quality materials, evidence and governance documentation, and can help you understand what regulators typically expect, but the decision always rests with the regulator or authority concerned. Past results achieved for other clients are not a prediction of the outcome of your application.
Limits of the information on this site
Website content is general information only. It is not legal advice, financial advice, migration advice, tax advice or a formal audit opinion, and reading it does not create a consultant-client relationship. Before acting on anything you read here, you should confirm how it applies to your institution, either through a scoped engagement with AHEG Research or with your own qualified advisers.
Currency of regulatory information
Higher education regulation changes frequently. References on this site to the TEQSA Act 2011, the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021, the ESOS framework and related legislation, guidance notes and regulator practice reflect our understanding at the time each page was written. Requirements may have changed since publication. Always check the current versions published by the regulator or authority before relying on them.
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No payments are taken on this website
No payments are taken through this website. AHEG Research engagements are scoped, agreed and invoiced separately under written engagement terms. Because nothing is sold on this site, no refund or returns provisions apply to the use of the website itself.
Questions and contact
If anything in this disclaimer is unclear, or you want to discuss how it applies to a piece of work, contact us at info@caqa.com.au, call 1800 266 160 or use our contact page. We are happy to explain, before any engagement begins, what our advice can and cannot achieve.