Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award [MA000075]

This page is a summary of who the Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award covers and doesn’t cover. Find a copy of the award at Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award.

Learn how to calculate pay rates and check entitlements from Find pay rates and entitlements.

On this page:

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 Education) Award [MA000075] clauses 2, 4, and schedule A, schedule B, schedule C

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 Academic Staff Award
  • Higher Education General Staff Award.

Check the award for full information on coverage and classifications.

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

Not the right award?

If your industry or work isn’t covered above, you can also check:

Find pay rates and entitlements

Use our tools and resources to:

Find your award

If you’re not sure of your award, use our Pay and Conditions Tool.

The tool lets you search by industry or occupation to help find the right award.

Awards are also available from our List of awards page.

Calculate pay rates, penalty rates and allowances

You can calculate pay rates, penalty rates and allowances using our Pay and Conditions Tool.

Prefer a single document? You can also download the pay guide for your award from our Pay guides page.

Work out notice periods and redundancy pay

You can find out how much notice and redundancy pay is required under your award using our Pay and Conditions Tool.

Check your award entitlements

For many common awards, we have tailored information about rules on employment conditions like:

Select your industry from the drop-down menu to access information.

If your industry isn’t listed in one of our drop-down menus, it’s best to go to the award itself.

Understand and apply award classifications

Find out how to read and apply classification descriptions in awards using our Award classifications guide.

There are practical steps and examples to help guide you through the process.

Access technical award information

We have more technical information on awards (including some not covered on our website) in our Library.

Search the award, issue or occupation to find out if we cover it there.

Fix a workplace problem

If there’s an issue at work, use our step-by-step guides to help fix it: Fixing a workplace problem.

We cover common issues likes underpayments, not getting pay slips and problems with final pay.