Authorisation by law to award higher education qualifications across a range of fields and to set standards for those qualifications which are equivalent to Australian and international standards.

Teaching and learning that engages with advanced knowledge and inquiry.

A culture of sustained scholarship extending from that which informs inquiry and basic teaching and learning, to the creation of new knowledge through research, and original creative endeavour.

Commitment of teachers, researchers, course designers and assessors to free inquiry and the systematic advancement of knowledge.

Governance, procedural rules, organisation, admission policies, financial arrangements and quality assurance processes, which are underpinned by the values and goals outlined above, and which are sufficient to ensure the integrity of the institution's academic programs.

Sufficient financial and other resources to enable the institution's program to be delivered and sustained into the future.