Under the Data Provision Requirements 2012, Blue Lotus College is required to collect personal information about you and to disclose that personal information to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER).
Your personal information (including the personal information contained on this enrolment form and your training activity data) may be used or disclosed by BLC for statistical, regulatory and research purposes. BLC may disclose your personal information for these purposes to third parties, including:
· School – if you are a secondary student undertaking VET, including a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship;
· Employer – if you are enrolled in training paid by your employer;
· Commonwealth and State or Territory government departments and authorised agencies;
· NCVER;
· Organisations conducting student surveys; and
· Researchers.
Personal information disclosed to NCVER may be used or disclosed for the following purposes:
· Issuing statements of attainment or qualification, and populating authenticated VET transcripts;
· facilitating statistics and research relating to education, including surveys;
· understanding how the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning and consumer information; and
· administering VET, including programme administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation.
You may receive an NCVER student survey which may be administered by an NCVER employee, agent or third party contractor. You may opt out of the survey at the time of being contacted.
NCVER will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the VET Data Policy and all NCVER policies and protocols (including those published on NCVER’s website at www.ncver.edu.au).
For students studying in Victoria, the Department’s collection and handling of enrolment data and VSNs is authorised under the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic). The Department is also authorised to collect and handle USIs in accordance with the
Student Identifiers Act 2014 (Cth) and the Student Identifiers Regulation 2014 (Cth).