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The definitive instruments for regulatory purposes remain the TEQSA Act and the Higher Education Standards Framework as amended from time to time.  \n1. What does scholarship encompass?  \nIn the context of the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 (HES Framework), ‘scholarship’ refers to those activities concerned with gaining new or improved understanding, or appreciation and insights into a field of knowledge, or engaging with and keeping up to date with advances in the field.  \nEngagement in scholarship can be considered:  \n• across a provider (e.g. policy frameworks, resource allocation, institutional expectations, staff development) , or  \n• at the level of individual activity (e.g. part of an individual’s personal professional development, teaching, research or professional practice) .  \nVarious aspects are relevant to higher education, but a key component is that scholarship:  \n• advances knowledge or professional practice in a field, or  \n• transmits advances through contemporary approaches to teaching and learning, or research and training.  \nTEQSA acknowledges that notions of scholarship may vary within and amongst providers and that the mission and category of the provider may influence the type of scholarship practised. TEQSA also recognises the diverse strategies used to develop, support and sustain scholarship, both at the institutional level and for individual staff.  \nTEQSA recognises there is no singular definition of scholarship and acknowledges that providers may utilise various approaches to organise the full range of their scholarly activities. However, TEQSA requires evidence of a systematic approach to organising scholarship irrespective of the type of scholarship practised (e.g. suitable, recognised and current approaches or models for arranging scholarly activity) .  \n2. What TEQSA will look for  \nThe HES Framework requires TEQSA to consider a provider’s engagement with scholarship at several levels. These include the following standards and criteria from the HES Framework:  \n\n| Part A: Standards for HE Providers | Key considerations |\n| --- | --- |\n| 3.1.2 :Course Design | • Scholarship contributing to the design and delivery of particular courses of study |\n| 3.2.3 : Staffing |  |\n| 4.2.2 (if applicable) : Research Training | • Scholarship associated with research and research training |\n| Part B: Criteria for HE Providers | Key considerations |\n| B1 .1.2: Staff scholarly activity | • Scholarship directly associated with informing teaching and learning, including disciplinary scholarship\u003Cbr>• Institutional encouragement and support for scholarship across all courses of study |\n| B1 .2.6 and B.1.3.9: Systematic approach to scholarship |  |\n\nTEQSA will need to be satisfied that evidence of scholarship relates directly to approaches in teaching and learning in a field or advances in knowledge. 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