Course classification

Course completion

Where a student meets the academic requirements of a course (ie, a pass). May also refer to an unsuccessful course completion (ie, a fail). Different from a withdrawal, where a student does not complete the course.

Course completion rate

The successfully completed enrolments in courses at a TEO each year, as a proportion of the total enrolments in courses, weighted by the EFTS value of the enrolments.

CoVE

Centre of Vocational Excellence. A group from across a sector that works together to grow excellent vocational provision, and share high-quality curriculum and programme design across the vocational education system.

Credit

One credit represents a notional 10 hours of learning, practice and assessment time with respect to the outcomes and contexts of a standard. One full-time year of study equates to 120 credits or 1 EFTS.

Credit completion

Represents the credits achieved by trainees at an industry training organisation (ITO), as a proportion of the total number of credits trainees are expected to complete in a given period at each ITO.

Credits

One credit represents a notional 10 hours of learning, practice and assessment time with respect to the outcomes and contexts of a standard.  One full-time year of study equates to 120 credits or 1 EFTS.

CSSF

Compulsory student service fee is a fee that tertiary education organisations can charge domestic students to help fund the costs of delivering student services such as health care and recreational activities.

CSV

Comma-separated values

Data accuracy

One of the components of data quality. It refers to whether the data values stored for an object are the correct values.  A correct data value must be the right value and must be represented in a consistent and unambiguous form.