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Skills First subsidised (formerly known as Government-subsidised)

Through the Skills First training program, which makes vocational training more accessible, eligible students can apply for a government-subsidised place.

If successful, the government will contribute to the cost of your tuition fee.

Your fees will consist of the following:

• tuition fee (subsidised)
• Student Services & Amenities Fee (SSAF)
• materials/auxiliary fees for your course.

Find out if you're eligible for a Skills First subsidised place.

Government concession (for eligible Skills First subsidised students)

You may be able to access a concession rate for your fees if you match the following criteria:

• government-subsidised student
• enrolled in a course at Certificate IV level or lower
• concession-card holder.

Eligible concession cards:

• Commonwealth Health Care Card (holder or named dependent)
• Pensioner Concession Card (holder or named dependent)
• Veteran Gold Card (holder)

If you meet these requirements, you will be charged the concession rate. This rate is equivalent to 20% of the VET tuition fee payable by non-concession students in a government-subsidised place for your course.

You cannot apply for a government concession if you are enrolling into a course as a full-fee or international student.

The concession rate is available for Student Services and Amenities Fees only where concession has been applied to tuition fees. Concession is not available on materials fees. 

Applying for a fee concession

To receive a concession on your tuition fees, you need to provide a copy of your current certified concession-card as outlined below:

• Go to AskVU and click ‘email us’. Attach certified copies of both sides of your concession card and send it to us.
• The date of the card must cover the start date of the course (first unit start date).
• The concession card must be provided by the invoice due date or the first unit start date, whichever date is later.

If you don’t have a concession card at the time of application, you have up to 28 days after your course commences to provide a certified valid concession card to access the concession rate. If a card is not presented within 28 days after course commencement, the standard fee rate applies.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander tuition fee waiver

The Minister for Skills and TAFE has approved a new tuition fee waiver for Indigenous Victorians – the Skills First Aboriginal Access fee waiver. This new fee waiver applies only to tuition fees and replaces the Indigenous Completion Initiative concession from 1 January 2024.

Materials fees and SSAF is still payable and charged at the relevant rate. The tuition fee waiver is only available for Skills First funded (government subsidised) training. To be eligible, students must identify as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students and full-time apprentices may access ABSTUDY payments through the Australian Government. ABSTUDY helps students who are studying with costs such as:

• education
• accommodation
• living
• fares to travel to your place of study each term or semester if you need to study away from home
• prescription medicine.

Our Moondani Balluk Academic Unit provides help, advice and support to Indigenous Australians applying for a course.

Phone: +61 3 9919 2836
Email: [email protected]

Full-fee paying places

If you are not eligible for a government-subsidised place, you will be charged the full-fee tuition rate for all enrolled hours.

This amount includes material fees and your Student Services & Amenities Fee (SSAF), and will be the total cost of the course.

International students

As an international student, you are required to pay for each semester by the due date on your statement of account (invoice).

The fee per semester is stated on your course page - see all international TAFE courses.

If you need to repeat a unit, that unit will be charged per contact hour in addition to your semester rate.