Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

On this page:

• Guidelines
  
• Legislation
  
• Other determinations
  
• Further resources
  
• Questions for DEEWR

Guidelines

• Administrative Guidelines
  
• Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines
  
• Commonwealth Scholarships Guidelines
  
• FEE-HELP Guidelines    
  
• HECS-HELP Benefit Guidelines    
  
• Higher Education Provider Guidelines
  
• OS-HELP Guidelines
  
• Other Grants Guidelines
  
• Special Circumstances Guidelines
  
• Student Learning Entitlement Guidelines
  
• Superannuation Programme - see Other Grants Guidelines
  
• Transitional Arrangements for Students Guidelines
  
• Tax File Number (TFN) Guidelines for Higher Education Providers and Open Universities Australia (OLA)

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Legislation

• Higher Education Funding Act 1988 (HEFA)
• Higher Education Support Act 2003 (HESA)
• Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003 (TCA)

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Other determinations

• Determinations relating to the provision of statistical data:
  
  • Data requirements covered by a Ministerial Notice for Table A and B and HESA approved private providers        
    
  • Data requirements covered by a Ministerial Notice for Table C providers 
    
  • Technical documents to ensure data can be provided as required by Ministerial Notice
    
• Courses in which students must not be Commonwealth supported
  
  • Bachelor of Circus Arts - Swinburne University of Technology    
    
  • Research Masters degrees and Research Doctoral degrees   
    
• Students exempt from payment of student contributions and tuition fees    
  
• Courses which are not enabling courses    
  
• Provision of schedule of student contributions and tuition fees to the Minister    
  
• Percentage of Commonwealth supported places provided in medicine

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Further resources

• Administrative Information for Providers (AIP)
  
• Allocation of units of study to funding clusters and student contribution bands according to Field of Education Codes for 2010 ( PDF 94KB | RTF 313KB)
  
• Allocation of units of study to funding clusters and student contribution bands according to Field of Education Codes for 2009 ( PDF 92KB)
  
• Indexed rates for 2010 ( PDF 169KB | RTF 172KB)
  
• Indexed rates for 2009 ( PDF 150KB)
  
• Indexed rates for 2008 ( PDF 20KB)
  
• Indexed rates for 2007 ( PDF 18KB)
  
• 2008 student contribution bands and ranges ( PDF 15KB)
  
• 2008 student contribution bands and ranges for pre-2008 students ( PDF 15KB)
  
• 2008 student contribution bands and ranges for pre-2005 HECS students ( PDF 19KB)
  
• Institutional Assessment Framework 

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Questions for DEEWR

For enquiries in relation to general administration of student support policies please contact us at aip@deewr.gov.au

For enquiries in relation to HEIMS and the CHESSN please contact us at heimshelpdesk@deewr.gov.au

For enquiries in relation to data specifications please contact us at university.statistics@deewr.gov.au

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