Understanding Australian Government TCSI Reporting
This section discusses the government departments that require higher education reporting.
In order to generate required government reports, in addition to the setup covered in the topics specific to Australian government reporting, you must set up these tables:
Field of Study AUS
Field of Education AUS
Discipline Group Table AUS
AOU Code Table AUS
Program Code Table AUS
Program Type Table AUS
Level/Load Rules Table
See Setting Up Reporting Codes.
The Australian Department of Education requires all institutions in Australia that receive funding from the Commonwealth government to provide statistical reports about programs offered, student enrollments and academic load, student liabilities under the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP), Commonwealth scholarships, enrollment and program completions, and application data.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) also requires institutions to provide information about students and their HELP debts that are to be recovered through the taxation system. In a simple process for institutions, all returns are forwarded to the Department of Education, which forwards the necessary information to the ATO.