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 co-contribution fee - partial or full exemptions may apply (SATs are exempt from paying the co-contribution fee)

Student co-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 co-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 co-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 co-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)