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Higher Education

HETI Higher Education has been accredited with TEQSA since 2017. We deliver postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters level courses in Applied Mental Health Studies. We offer microcredential learning opportunities across perinatal, child and youth, adult and older persons mental health.

We are accredited with RANZCP as a Formal Education Provider and offer Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry and the Advanced Child and Adolescent Psychiatry course.

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)

HETI was awarded the status of a higher education provider by TEQSA on 27 October 2016 and has been granted the maximum registration period of seven years.  The Applied Mental Health Studies nested Masters course is available as professional development, stackable credit and award completion at Graduate Certificate, Graduate diploma and Masters level.

We are the first public health entity to be registered with TEQSA within Australia.

Further information on TEQSA can be accessed at the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency website: www.teqsa.gov.au. Our provider details can be accessed here.

Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)

HETI Higher Education uses the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) that establishes the quality of Australian qualifications. The AQF is the national policy for regulated qualifications in the Australian education and training system. It incorporates the quality assured qualifications from each education and training sector into a single comprehensive national qualifications framework.

Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma courses are set at AQF level 8, with Masters set at AQF level 9. Further information on the AQF levels can be accessed at the Australian Qualifications Framework website: https://www.aqf.edu.au/aqf-levels.

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)

The Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry and Advanced Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Course provided by HETI are accredited with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). The RANZCP is responsible for training, educating, and representing psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand.

The Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry has been designed to meet the criteria as a Formal Education Course (FEC) of the RANZCP. Participation in an FEC is mandatory for doctors in their first 2 stages of training towards Fellowship with the RANZCP.

The Advanced Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Course is the FEC for psychiatry trainees enrolled in Child and Adolescent advanced training in NSW.

HETI Higher Education is in the final year of delivery of the Master of Psychiatric Medicine, which is also accredited FEC by the RANZCP.

The Introduction to Leadership in Psychiatry course fulfils the requirements of a formal leadership and management training course, as accredited by the RANZCP NSW Branch Training Committee.