Overview of Smart and Skilled
Smart and Skilled provides eligible students with access to Government subsidised training in NSW. This includes an entitlement for all NSW citizens to undertake Apprenticeship and Traineeship training. The NSW Skills List provides the nationally accredited qualifications and courses that eligible students may undertake. Eligible students may also undertake a short course (either a nationally accredited skills set or a bespoke skills set made up of nationally accredited units of competency and/or modules) through the Targeted Priorities Prevocational and Part Qualifications Program. Under Smart and Skilled, a student contributes towards the cost of training through the payment of a student fee.
The schedule of fees for each qualification on the NSW Skills List can be accessed at: https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/resources/qualification-prices[1]fees.
Some students may be eligible for fee-free training or a concession fee. The Smart and Skilled Fee Administration Policy provides detailed guidance on fee arrangements and eligibility requirements for fee-free training or fee concessions.
The Smart and Skilled Student Eligibility Policy - Eligibility criteria for all Smart and Skilled Programs
A person who is eligible to receive subsidised training in all Smart and Skilled Programs (except Smart and Skilled Entitlement Apprenticeships and Traineeships Program) is a person who, at the time of enrolment in a qualification or course on the NSW Skills List or a “short course” with a Smart and Skilled provider:
(a) lives or works in NSW (determined by postcode of the usual place of residence or place of work); or
(b) an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student who does not live or work in NSW but lives in specific defined interstate NSW border areas is eligible for government-subsidised
training under Smart and Skilled; and
(c) is:
(i) an Australian citizen; or
(ii) a permanent Australian resident; or
(iii) a New Zealand citizen; or
(iv) a humanitarian visa holder or a partner visa holder whose sponsor is a humanitarian visa holder; and
(d) is aged 15 years or older; and
(e) is no longer in secondary education - except for registered home school students
If you are looking for more information about the Smart & Skilled Funding program then check out the following useful links:
