Higher Education Support (Other Grants) Guidelines 2022
52AProgram objectives
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52A Program objectives
(1) The Needs-Based Funding Program is specified as a program for the purpose of promoting equality of opportunity in higher education, under item 1 of the table in subsection 41-10(1) of the Act.
(2) The objective of the Needs-Based Funding Program is to provide grants to assist higher education providers to promote equality of opportunity in higher education by:
(a) improving the extent to which persons from a low socioeconomic background and Indigenous persons participate, remain and succeed in higher education, and obtain higher education awards; and
(b) assisting providers to offset higher operating costs of campuses in inner regional, regional, outer regional, remote and very remote areas and the Northern Territory, in comparison to campuses in metropolitan areas.