Student attendance in TAFE, colleges, training schools and schools for international students now being measured for attendance levels across Australia. Students and Colleges requiring attendance records include:-

• International Students
• Flying Schools
• Governement supported TAFE programs
• Any private or professional training school receiving government funds 
• Medical students

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The actual attendance requirements can vary. Some colleges post attendance requirements onto websites like Victoria University for TAFE students
"All students that are enrolled in a TAFE program at Victoria University are required to achieve a minimum 80% course attendance, as required by their student visa. Students who fail to attend 80% of their classes can risk having their eCoE cancelled and their student visa revoked"

Minimum student attendance requirements can vary depending on the course students are undertaking and include

• twenty hours per week
• 4 days per week
  
• 80% per term
• 85% of the full year 
• 18 months

Maintaining student attendance records manually can be very time consuming keeping all records and measurements within minimum student attendance requirements.

Complex requirements with different sets of attendance rules determined by what type of student ......

• Australian students
• International students
• TAFE students
• Apprenticeships
  
• traineeships
• college students
  

Typical problems can include 

•  incorrect calculations
•  lack of evidence of student attendance
•  lost hours maintaining a manually calculated system.
•  refusal of government payments without clear attendance records

There are a number of ways to collect student attendance automatically in the correct format for attendance records. Automatic calculation of minimum attendance requirements and tracking of this minimum requirement can be automated and made availablefor students to monitor and maintain attendance records.

• Electronic time clock
• web time sheets