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Mandatory Government student contribution fees
(a) Student contribution fees are the non-government financial contribution to the cost of the training and assessment services provided by Regional Training Services Qld [RTSQ]. The fee is paid to RTSQ.
(b) RTSQ must detail its fees and charges policy, including full costs, method of collection, refunds, and exemptions prior to enrolment and provide access to this written policy to apprentices and trainees.
(c) RTSQ must retain evidence of student contribution fees charged and collected for all students, except for those students deemed as fully exempt. In addition, evidence must be retained for all students whose circumstances have been deemed as totally or partially exempt from student contribution fees.
(d) Student contribution fees under the User Choice program are set at $1.60 per nominal hour for each unit of competency/module to be calculated at the commencement of the unit of competency/module.
(e) RTSQ must not charge more than the student contribution fee amounts contained in this policy, except as required periodically by the department.
(f) RTSQ may only charge less than the student contribution fee in accordance with the following “Partial” and “Full exemption” tuition fee explanations
(g) When the participant converts from a school-based apprentice or trainee to a full-time or part-time apprenticeship or traineeship, student contribution fees must be charged for training and assessment for any units of competency not yet commenced. This does not apply when the participant is a Year 12 graduate and is undertaking a high priority qualification as identified by the department.
(h) Where RTSQ must collect a student contribution fee, it may be paid on behalf of the student by their employer or a third party unrelated to RTSQ but cannot be paid or waived by RTSQ.
Partial exemption — tuition fees
RTSQ must charge 40% of the student contribution fee [64 cents per nominal hour], where the participant falls into one or more of the following exemption categories:
(a) The participant was or will be under 17 years of age at the end of February in the year in which RTSQ provides training, and the participant is not at school and has not completed year 12.
(b) The participant holds a Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card issued under Commonwealth law or is the partner or a dependant of a person who holds a Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card and is named on the card.
(c) The participant issues RTSQ with an official form under Commonwealth law confirming the participant, his or her partner or the person of whom the participant is a dependant, is entitled to concessions under a Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card.
(d) The participant is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. Acceptable evidence is a “letter of confirmation” which is usually obtained from an incorporated indigenous organisation and must be stamped with their common seal as proof.
Full exemption — tuition fees
RTSQ must apply full exemption from the student contribution fee where the participant falls into one or more of the following exemption categories:
(a) where credit transfer/national recognition has been applied to a unit of competency/module
(b) the participant is a school-based apprentice or trainee
(c) the participant is undertaking a qualification as part of the Skilling Queenslanders for Work – Work Skills Traineeship program.
For more information regarding our fees, refunds and cancellations refer to page 18 of our Student Information Handbook.