Under Subsection 19-70(1) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, higher education providers are required to provide statistical data to the Minister and the allocation of Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Numbers (CHESSN) to all Commonwealth assisted students.
A Ministerial Notice issued on 5 December 2008 sets out the requirements for the Higher Education Student Collection for 2009.
Further information on administrative requirements under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (HESA) is available in the Administrative Information for Providers (AIP) 
The following document provides a timing matrix for the Higher Education Data Collections for the 2009 reporting year.
2009 Timing matrix pdf 
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This section provides specifications for the elements for which data are to be included in one or more of the files provided to DEEWR by Higher Education Providers in the collection year.
The specifications for each element are shown in these sections.
Element by File
Element by Name
Element by Number
Higher Education file naming convention
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rtf 
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2009 Timing matrix pdf (16.4 KB) xls (32.0 KB)
2009 Change Control Document pdf (179.5 KB) rtf (560.8 KB)
2009 Scope documents pdf (exe/zip 806KB) rtf (exe/zip 17.5MB)
2009 Structure Documents pdf (exe/zip 597KB) rtf (exe/zip 13.7MB)
2009 Data elements documents
- Higher Education Data Collection - Data Elements Dictionary pdf (1.1 MB) rtf (exe/zip 1.4MB)
- 2009 Data Elements by number pdf (exe/zip 1.1MB) rtf (exe/zip 707KB)
2009 CHESSN scope document pdf (70.1 KB) rtf (exe/zip 1.2MB)
2009 CHESSN data elements pdf (122.1 KB) rtf (exe/zip 1.2MB)