Enrolment offer

Enrolment offers and forms are the basis for the contract made between TEOs and learners in relation to courses and programmes of study.

An enrolment offer is made by a TEO in response to a learner’s application for enrolment. The offer states both the:

• specific qualification(s) and courses that the learner will undertake for a specific teaching period, and
• fees/course costs of specific courses (when applicable).

The use of inducements unrelated to educational provision are prohibited in enrolment offers under Rule ENR040[1], which also requires a formal offer of enrolment to be made.  Detail of the format is contained within Rule ENR051[2].

• [1]

  Rule ENR040: SAC valid enrolments

  A tertiary education organisation (TEO) must not claim Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding in relation to a learner unless the learner has completed an enrolment that is valid for SAC funding. An enrolment is valid for SAC funding if all of the following requirements are met: 

  • The learner has domestic student status, or is a foreign student enrolled in a research-based postgraduate qualification
  • The learner and the TEO have entered into an enrolment contract through formal acceptance of the TEO's enrolment offer by the learner
  • The learner pays the fees, or commits to pay the fees (if fees apply)
  • Both the TEO and the learner understand the learner intends to complete the qualification
  • The specified period in which a learner can withdraw with a refund of fees/course costs has passed
  • The enrolment is not likely to have resulted from an inducement.
• [2]

  Rule ENR051: Enrolment offer - conditions

  Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) may make an enrolment offer in writing or electronically, provided the offer meets all the following:

  • Is clearly made on behalf of the TEO
  • Is in a form that the learner and the TEO can retain
  • Results in a permanent record held by the TEO.