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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
Question No. 1248
Canberra Institute of Technology - Student-
Association Fee
MR CORNWELL - asked the Minister for Education and Training on notice on 12 April 1994:
In relation to the Canberra Institute of Technology 1994 Student Handbook
(1) Why is a Student Association fee of $18 charged per course (page 5), rather than a flat fee for multiple course enrolments.
(2) Is the Student Association fee part of the course fee and thus refundable, as set out on page 9.
(3) If the Student Association fee is part of the course fee, how can the claim be
substantiated that the Student Association "is an independent ....Organisation"?
` (page 23).
(4) How much money was collected at each campus in Student Association fees in
1993.
(5) How was this money expended.
(6) Has an estimate been made of the cost to the Canberra Institute of Technology
of collecting this fee on behalf of the Student Association, and if so (a) what is
the amount; and (b) is it deducted from the Association's funds.
(7) If no cost is calculated and no charge against the Association made, why not.
MR WOOD - the answer to the Member's question is as follows:
(1) The decision to charge the Student Association fee on a per course rather than flat basis is due to two factors. Firstly, students who enrol in more than one course have access to a greater quantum of Student Association services. Secondly, the Institute does not have a mechanism for adjusting student fee payment advices to recognise multiple course enrolments. This latter factor arises from the decentralised nature of student enrolments at the Institute whereby enrolments occur at any one of the six CITY campuses within a two month bandwidth for each Semester,
(2) The Student Association fee is a separate refundable fee subject to the conditions of the Institute's student fee refund policy.
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