User Choice and School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships

To be eligible for funding you must:

• Enter into a User Choice funded program training contract with your employer
• Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrant) or temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permit on the pathway to permanent residency or a New Zealand citizen
• Have the consent of a parent or guardian where required for under 18s
• Not exceed the maximum of two government funded User Choice contributions (the second funded qualification must be a priority one or a higher priority than the first to be eligible)

DGT Employment and Training #RTO 1719 eligible courses:

Choose the right apprenticeship or traineeship for you, talk to family, friends, school career counsellors or guidance officers - and gather information on different career options.

You can also get a 'taste' before commencing some apprenticeships. This can be done by participating in a pre-vocational or pre-apprenticeship course. See what DGT Employment and Training offers through its Certificate 3 Guarantee and VETis funded programs.

Throughout your enrolment you must:

• Not undertake more than one apprenticeship or traineeship at the same time
• Maintain your training record
• Pay a contribution fee - partial or full exemptions may apply (SATs are exempt from paying the contribution fee)

Student contribution fees are:

• $1.60 per nominal hour (per unit)
• $0.64 per nominal hour (per unit) for eligible partial exemption

DGT Employment and Training will consult with the student and employer to develop a Training Plan and provide a breakdown of the fees for each unit enrolment. The apprentice, trainee, their employer or a third-party will enter into an agreement as to who will pay the contribution fee and the relevant party will be invoiced as each unit of competency is commenced.

Evidence must be provided with your exemption application.

• Partial exemption (60% concession):
• Health care or Concession card hold or their dependant or evidence there of
• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, as indicated on your enrolment form

Full fee exemption:

• Evidence that the contribution fee payment would cause extreme financial hardship
• School-based apprentice or trainee including those who have completed year 12 and are transitioning to full-time or part-time
• Commencement in a “high priority qualification” in the 12 months since graduating QLD year 12
• Commencement in a “high priority qualification” on or after 1 July 2019 - Under 21 years
• Commencement in a Training Contract on or after 1 January 2021 in a designated free apprenticeship qualification aged between 21 years and under 25 years
• Where credit transfer/national recognition has been applied to a unit of competency/module

The qualification or competencies completed during the SAT are ‘contributing studies’ to a QCE and will be recorded in the student’s learning account. The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority has more details on how a SAT affects the QCE. SATs are not required to pay a contribution fee.

A school-based traineeship may be completed when the student is still an enrolled in school.

A school-based apprenticeship is unlikely to be completed while at school, the training contract is then converted to full-time or part-time if the SAT leaves school early. This process is an automatic conversion to full-time when a SAT completes Year 12.

Throughout your enrolment you must:

• Have the support of the school, impact the school timetable and where required commit to continuing post school (SATs only)
• Complete a minimum of 375 hours (50 days) of paid work has been undertaken for each full-time nominal term year (SATs only)