Equipment infrastructure

Student Achievement Component and TEO Component funding subsidise a range of costs, including:

• capital costs for TEIs and OTEPs
• operational costs
• some research costs
• teaching costs.

Condition SAC121[1] requires TEOs to financially support the equipment infrastructure required to deliver their approved qualifications, rather than require learners to. 

Examples of infrastructural equipment include cellphones, laboratory equipment and computers.

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  Condition SAC121: TEO financial support for course equipment

  Tertiary education organisations must financially support the equipment infrastructure required to deliver their approved qualifications, rather than require learners to individually purchase such items.

  Equipment infrastructure may be one or both of the following:

  • Items of hardware that are of high cost
  • Equipment that has an expected life and/or depreciation period that is long enough to cover several intakes of learners in a qualification or programme of study.