Under the overhaul, a student who fails half of their first eight subjects in a degree will lose access to a government-subsidised place and HELP loans. However, higher education providers will have discretion to maintain the students’ access to funding if they can demonstrate their performance was affected by exceptional circumstances.
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment estimates the change will affect about 2500 people annually.
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The crackdown is targeted at extreme examples of students enrolling in an unreasonable number of courses at multiple institutions, persistently failing and amassing extraordinary HELP debts. In one case, a person enrolled in 44 courses with 26 providers, accruing a debt of $663,000 an…
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