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Higher Education Support Act 2003 - Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines (02/06/2004)
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4.1.1 The purpose of this chapter is to specify how the amount of regional loading for Commonwealth supported places under section 33-5 (b) of the Act is to be worked out. Where the allocation of Commonwealth supported places made by the Minister under section 30-10 of the Act specifies a number of places that have a regional loading, the amount of regional loading that will be paid for Commonwealth supported places is worked out in the following way.
4.5 ELIGIBILITY
4.5.1 For the purposes of regional loading, a campus is defined as the physical location from where a course of study is delivered. It must have:
(a) regular face to face teaching – there must be academic staff present at the campus covering the teaching period; and
(b) entire courses must be delivered from the location (the bulk of units within a course leading to a higher education award must be offered at the campus location).
4.5.5 To be eligible for the regional loading, the campus must be located outside a mainland capital city other than Darwin and in a population centre with fewer than 250,000 people (with the exception of Wollongong).
4.5.10 Population figures are derived using the Statistical Division population figures in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) most up-to-date Regional Population Growth or equivalent publication.
4.5.15 The regional loading will be paid for internal student load for students in Commonwealth supported places undertaking a course leading to a higher education award (excluding research), using the student status codes listed below at 4.25. Overseas student load, full fee-paying domestic student load and work experience in industry load are not included. The loading includes a percentage of Commonwealth-supported external student load at the regional campus, in recognition that there are costs incurred at the regional campus for servicing external students. This percentage is calculated as set out at 4.20.
4.5.20 External students are those undertaking the external mode of attendance, where all units of study for which the student is enrolled involve special arrangements whereby lesson materials, assignments etc are delivered to the students, and any associated attendance at the higher education provider is of an incidental, irregular, special or voluntary nature.
4.5.25 The allocation will be based on the most recent student load data available.
4.10 FUNDING BANDS
4.10.1 Once eligibility has been determined, regional loading will be paid for student load according to bands, established on the basis of distance from the closest mainland State capital city – more or less than 300 kms - and size of the higher education provider (not the size of the campus) – greater or less than 10,000 EFTSL, based on total domestic non-fee paying enrolments at the entire higher education provider, using the student status codes listed below at 4.25.
4.10.5 The loading for the bands has been calculated as a share of an average funded place (excluding HECS) of $6,686 (in 2004 prices). The relative loadings that will apply for the bands are as follows:
Band
Criteria 1
Criteria 2
Loading
1
Northern Territory
N/A
30%
2
Campus is more than 300 kms from nearest mainland capital city
higher education provider has less than 10 000 Commonwealth-supported EFTSL
4.10.10 The regional loading for an eligible regional campus will be calculated in the following way:
4.10.15 The number of internal student EFTSL at the regional campus plus a percentage of the external student EFTSL at the regional campus MULTIPLIED by the relative loading value that applies for the funding band into which that campus falls.
4.15 VARIATIONS
4.15.1 The total amount of regional loading available to the sector is a fixed amount each year. If internal student EFTSL that is calculated against the eligible regional campuses rises significantly, or if new campuses become eligible for the loading, the amount of loading that applies for each band may be varied or the amount that applies for the percentage of external student EFTSL that may be included for the loading may be calculated on a pro-rata basis. The value of the loadings for each loading band in 2005 and future years will be specified by an amendment to these guidelines.
4.20 CALCULATION OF EXTERNAL LOAD
4.20.1 The grant amount for regional loading includes a percentage of external student EFTSL calculated in the following way. The calculations apply to Commonwealth supported place numbers.
(a) Step 1: The percentage of total external student load is calculated for an eligible higher education provider at all its campuses over the total student load (internal, external, multi-modal). A student is included in multi-modal student load when the student undertakes at least one unit of study on an internal mode of attendance and at least one unit of study on an external mode of attendance.
(b) Step 2: This percentage is applied to the external load at the regional campus. For example, the percentage of external load/total load for a higher education provider across all its campuses may be 40%. The higher education provider would then be entitled to 40% of the external student load at its eligible regional campus or campuses, at the band rate that applies for that campus.
4.20.5 Example: Higher education provider A has 100 EFTSL eligible internal load at its eligible regional campus. The higher education provider also has 50 EFTSL in external load enrolled through the regional campus.
4.20.10 If the percentage of total external student load for the higher education provider of the total student load at all its campuses is 30%, this percentage will be used to calculate the percentage of external load to be counted at the regional campus. Therefore, in the example above, total load eligible for the regional loading is 100 internal EFTSL + 15 external EFTSL (ie 30% of the 50 external EFTSL) = 115 EFTSL.
4.20.15 The grant amount will then be calculated as 115 x the $ rate that applies for the funding band for that campus.
4.25 CODING NOTES FOR DETERMINING REGIONAL LOADING EFTSL
4.25.1 Student load is determined for the regional loading using the codes in the student data collection, as set out below:
(a) Domestic, non-fee paying student load
E380 = 10, 11, 12, 25, 31, 71 and 99
(b) Level of course
Includes post-graduate coursework, undergraduate and enabling students.
(c) Internal student load
E329 = 1
(d) Share of external student load
E329 = 2; E329 = 3
(e) Campus location
Identified by E477
CHAPTER 5 MEDICAL STUDENT LOADING
5.1 PURPOSE
5.1.1 The purpose of this chapter is to specify how the amount of medical student loading for Commonwealth supported places under section 33-5 (c) of the Act is to be worked out.
5.5 MEDICAL STUDENT LOADING (SECTION 33-5)
5.5.1 The medical student loading provides funding for teaching hospital costs in a Commonwealth supported place in a course of study in medicine, completion of which would allow provisional registration as a medical practitioner by an authority of a State, a Territory or the Commonwealth.
5.5.5 Where the allocation of Commonwealth supported places made by the Minister under section 30-10 of the Act specifies a number of places that have a medical student loading, the amount of medical student loading that will be paid for Commonwealth supported places is worked out in the following way.
5.10 CALCULATION OF THE LOADING
5.10.1 The loading in 2004 is $1048 per medical student EFTSL for the agreed number of medical student places. For 2005 and for future years, the value of the loading will be specified by amendment to these guidelines.
5.10.5 Student load is determined for the medical student loading, by the EFTSL of medical units of study in a course of study in medicine, completion of which would allow provisional registration as a medical practitioner by an authority of a State, a Territory or the Commonwealth (field of education codes 019901 - medical science and 060100 to 060199 - medical studies, excluding 060113 – Pathology). The allocation will be based on the most recent student load data available.