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1. Under the provisions of Schedule 1A of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (HESA) and the associated VET Provider Guidelines Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd (the First Provider) is required to provide a VET tuition assurance arrangement for Australian citizens or holders of an Australian permanent humanitarian visa who are enrolled in the eligible VET courses of study that it offers. This requirement is to protect students in the event that Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd ceases to provide a VET course of study in which a student is enrolled. The meaning of ‘ceasing to provide a VET course of study’ is set out at clause 3.1.25 of the VET Provider Guidelines. A copy of these is available from: http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/4E884348-34B3-4113-9487-147EDDFBAE31/22530/VETProviderGuidelinessignedPDF.pdf 2. In the event that Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd ceases to provide a VET course of study in which a student is enrolled the student is entitled to a choice of:
a) an offer of a place in a similar VET course of study with a Second Provider without any requirement to pay the Second Provider any VET tuition fee for any replacement VET units (this is known as the “VET Course Assurance Option”);
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b) a refund of his or her up-front VET payments for any VET unit of study that the student commences but does not complete because Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd ceases to provide the VET course of study of which the VET unit forms part (this is known as the “VET Tuition Fee Repayment Option”)
3. Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd has met the VET tuition assurance requirements as specified in the VET Provider Guidelines through its current membership of the ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme. Contact details for ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme are:
ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme
Suite 12, Level 14
329 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel 02 9264 4490
4. If Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd ceases to provide a VET course of study, ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme will send a student enrolled in the VET course of study a Written VET Tuition Assurance Offer (the Offer) advising the student of the options available under the VET tuition assurance requirements. The Offer will include directions that the student must follow in order to notify ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme of the choice they have made for each affected VET unit. ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme will provide this Offer within twenty Business Days after it knows, or should now by reasonable enquiries that the Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd has ceased to provide the VET course of study.
5. The VET course/s of study for which Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd has ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme membership is/are: Diploma in Kinesiology (HLT51507)
Diploma of Sports Kinesiology (21765)
6. A student may choose either: The VET Course Assurance Option:
7. Under the VET course assurance option, a student will be offered a place in a similar VET course of study by ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme . If the student accepts this option, ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme will make all necessary arrangements to ensure a student is able to enrol with the Second Provider in the similar VET course of study. This offered VET course will lead to the same or a comparable qualification without any requirement on the part of the student to pay the Second Provider any VET tuition fee for any replacement VET units (that is, units that the student had commenced but not completed because the VET course ceased to be offered). A student will receive full credit from the Second Provider for any VET units of study successfully completed at Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd.
8. The Second Provider nominated by ACPET Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme may have different VET tuition fees to the fees the student would have paid for VET units of study which were part of the VET course of study the Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd ceased to provide but which the student had not yet started studying.
9. A student is not obliged to enrol in a VET course of study with a Second Provider offered by ACPET’s Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme under the VET Course Assurance Option. However, if he/she enrols with any other VET provider there is no obligation on that VET provider to offer full credit transfer for the VET units of study completed with the Australian College of Complementary Medicine Pty Ltd or to offer replacement VET unit/s free of charge.
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The VET Tuition Fee Repayment Option
10. Under the VET Tuition Fee Repayment Option, ACPET’s Australian Student Tuition Assurance Scheme undertakes to pay the student the total of any up-front VET payments already paid by the student for any VET units of study the student has commenced but not completed because the VET course ceased to be offered. Students selecting this option will also have their FEE-HELP balance re-credited for the uncompleted VET units.
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