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Preamble |
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Fees for domestic students must be established in accordance with relevant legislation and guidelines issued by the Commonwealth. |
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Definitions |
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The Student Learning Entitlement (SLE) is the length of time in equivalent full-time student load that a person is entitled to a Commonwealth supported place. |
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The Research Training Scheme (RTS) entitlement is the length of time in equivalent full-time student load a research higher degree student receives funding under the Commonwealth's Research Training Scheme. |
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Domestic students are Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens. |
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Policy |
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Flinders University does not provide direct admission to fee-paying places for domestic undergraduate students and domestic research higher degree students, except for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery course. |
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Tuition fees may be charged for the following categories of students to enable such students to continue in their course of study: |
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International students who are granted permanent resident visas during their course of study. Where a Commonwealth supported place is available the full student contribution amount will apply. In the event that there is no Commonwealth supported place, students will: |
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in the case of undergraduate courses, be charged a tuition fee not less than the full student contribution amount but not more than the tuition fees applying to international students. Such fee to be approved by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) on the recommendation of the relevant Faculty; |
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in the case of postgraduate coursework courses, be charged the domestic student tuition fee; |
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in the case of a research higher degree, be charged the equivalent fee to that charged for domestic research higher degree students who have exceeded their Research Training Scheme (RTS) entitlement. |
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Domestic students who have exceeded their Student Learning Entitlement. In this case students will be charged a tuition fee not less than the full student contribution amount for the topics in which they are enrolled for that teaching period. |
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Domestic research higher degree students who have exceeded their Research Training Scheme (RTS) entitlement. In this case students will be charged a tuition fee in accordance with a schedule of fees approved by the Academic Senate. |
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The University will award an Exemption Scholarship to all domestic research higher degree students who have exceeded their RTS entitlement. |
