eCAF

Electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form, More commonly known as Fee-Help Form or HECS-HELP form. This replaces the paper based forms and other internal electronic forms.

FEE-HELP

Fee-Help is a loan Scheme that assists eligible students to pay all or part of their tuition fees. This loan is subject to 25% Government loading

For more information on Fee-Help click here

HECS-HELP

HECS-HELP is a loan scheme to help Commonwealth Supported students to pay their student contribution amounts through and loan or upfront discounts. This loan has no Government loading

API

Application Programming Interface. Part of a server that receives and requests and sends responses. Here it is a programmed link between Paradigm and the HEIMS  / Government E-CAF System

Login details received from the Government to link Paradigm to the E-CAF portal

HEIMS Census date

The date after which a student incurs a debt for the unit(s) of study in which they have been enrolled

This date can not be set less than 20% of the duration of the teaching period as outlined in the HESA and AIP

HITS provider code

Each provider is given a Unique 4 digit identifying code that is used in HEPCAT / HITS, this data is stored in the provider tab in Paradigm.

Element Numbers

Unique identifiers of required data / questions asked by the Government in order to provide accurate data  on Students, Courses, units and providers. These are used with in Paradigm and HEPCAT to help in ensuring data integrity across all providers. A full list can be viewed

A full list of these can be viewed here.

Each Element number refers to a data field within Paradigm.

However not every field has an elements. These fields contain non-reportable data.

HEIMS Course code

E307  - The code assigned by the provider to uniquely identify a course of Study. This code is used in HEPCAT reporting

CHESSN Number

A commonwealth Higher Education student number (CHESSN) is a 10 digit number provided by the Australian Government to all students who are in receipt of either HECS-HELP or FEE-HELP. It is a unique number that remains with the student regardless of if they change institutions. This means that HELP debts can be tracked to ensure that the student does not exceed their allocation.