Educational Services (Post-Secondary Education) Award [MA000075]

Who the Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award covers

The Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award covers employers in the post-secondary educational services industry and their employees who fit within the classifications of the award. 

The post-secondary educational services industry means education and training provided to people over 16 years old who have exited the school education system. This includes:

  • vocational education and training (VET) teaching that leads to qualifications recognised within the Australia Qualifications Framework (AQF)
  • English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teaching
  • Languages Other Than English (LOTE) teaching
  • English language, literacy and numeracy teaching and migrant educational programmes
  • community and adult educational teaching that doesn’t lead to AQF recognised  qualifications
  • undergraduate and postgraduate teaching that leads to an accredited degree or, to other higher education qualifications, that is not taught in an approved university
  • foundation studies programmes or bridging course teaching where the programme or course is preparatory to or articulates with programmes of teaching leading to higher education qualifications recognised within the AQF
  • employees of any student unions established for students in any of the above post-secondary educational services.

Examples of employees covered by the Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award include:

  • academic teachers
  • tutors and instructors
  • teachers
  • administrative staff
  • librarians
  • technical staff

who work in the education and training providers mentioned above.

The Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award also covers labour hire businesses and their employees who are placed with an organisation in the post-secondary educational services industry.

Check the award for full information on who is covered and the classification descriptions.

Source reference: Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award [MA000075] clauses 2, 4, and schedule A, schedule B, schedule C external-icon.png

Who the Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award doesn’t cover    

The following are examples of employers and employees who are not covered by the Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award:

  • secondary schools
  • maintenance staff
  • cleaning staff
  • teachers / professors and general staff at universities.

The Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award doesn’t cover employers and employees when they are covered by one of the following awards:

  • Higher Education Academics Award
  • Higher Education General Staff Award.

Check the award for full information on coverage and classifications.

Source reference: Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award [MA000075] clauses 2, 4, and schedule A, schedule B, schedule C external-icon.png

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