Community Education Funding Changes
New funding arrangements for community education courses taught by public tertiary institutions were announced recently. It has been decided to reduce and cap the total funding available for classification 5.1 courses, which covers courses for part-time students often lasting only a few weeks (evening classes in secondary schools are not funded via this mechanism). Over the next 3 years (2003/04 to 2006/07) around $144 million of anticipated funding for these courses will be reinvested in other tertiary education courses.
As part of these changes, the funding rate for classification 5.1 will be reduced from $5,707 per equivalent fulltime student (EFTS) to $5,000 for 2005. However, given that the average community education student was enrolled for a course load of 0.074 EFTS, which is equivalent to about 2 and a half weeks full-time study, the average funding rate under the new rules is therefore $3,700 per student.
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