Fee Exemptions
This information applies to students undertaking training courses. For information on university course fees, go to the Going to Uni website.
For government funded training places fee exemptions may be granted for the following reasons. Exemptions apply to courses at all levels, including Skills Deepening (Diploma courses and above).
Arrangements between providers
Exemption from the tuition fee is available to anyone whose fees have already been paid for by an arrangement between the provider and another educational institution.
Late eligibility for concession
If you have paid the full tuition fee but then later become eligible for a concession, you do not have to pay any tuition fee for additional training you take in the same calendar year.
Special funding arrangements
It may be a condition of special government funding that a student not be charged fees. In that case, a student would be exempt from any fee payment.
Prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees, people held on remand, or people who have been ordered by a Court to undertake a training course do not have to pay any tuition fee.
Extreme hardship
A provider may decide to grant exemption from paying the tuition contribution or other fees if paying the full amount would cause a student extreme hardship.
There is no set definition of extreme hardship, and the provider makes a decision about whether a fee exemption is justified on a case by case basis. Some evidence may be requested.