Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment 2021

# Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment 2021 ## What it does This amendment changes how TEQSA (the body that regulates universities and colleges) calculates the charges it can impose on education providers. Specifically, it says TEQSA must ignore any costs that will be covered by fees it collects directly from overseas student registration—basically preventing double-charging for the same thing. ## Why it matters Universities and colleges won't be hit with inflated regulatory charges because TEQSA is counting the same costs twice. This could help keep education providers' operating costs down, which might translate to slightly lower pressure on course fees for students. ## Key details - **What changed:** TEQSA now has to exclude certain costs from its charges when those costs are already being covered by overseas student registration fees it collects separately - **Who it affects:** Universities, colleges, and other tertiary education providers registered with TEQSA - **Commencement:** The law takes effect once both the main TEQSA charges law and a related overseas student registration law have started—it needed both to kick in together to make sense

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