The Higher Education Standards Framework (HESF) 2021 under the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (TEQSA, 2021) stipulates the standards or requirements that a higher education provider must meet and/or continue to meet to be registered.
Standard 3.2 relates to Teaching. In particular, the scholarship activities that are concerned with academic staff engaging with ‘current knowledge and scholarship in relevant academic disciplines, study of the underlying theoretical and conceptual frameworks of the academic disciplines or fields of education or research represented in the course, and emerging concept that are informed by recent scholarship, current research findings and, where applicable, advances in practice.’