Other Grants Guidelines (Education) Amendment (Total Funding Amounts) 2021

I, Alan Tudge, Minister for Education and Youth, make the following instrument.

Dated  8 November 2021  

Alan Tudge

Minister for Education and Youth

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Other Grants Guidelines (Education) 2012

1  Name

  This instrument is the Other Grants Guidelines (Education) Amendment (Total Funding Amounts) 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 238‑10 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Other Grants Guidelines (Education) 2012

1  Section 1.45

 Repeal the section, substitute:

1.45 Total HEPPP (formula-based) funding

1.45.1 For the years specified below, the total amount of HEPPP funding available will be as follows:

2021: $138,797,515

2022: $140,146,842

2023: $140,146,842

1.45.3 The total amount of HEPPP funding for 2023 is to be adjusted using the method of indexation set out in Part 5-6, Division 198 of the Act.

1.45.5 The total amount of HEPPP funds available in 2024 and later years will be determined by the Minister.

2  Section 1.47

 Repeal the section, substitute:

1.47 Calculation of grant amounts

1.47.1 Subject to section 1.47A (which deals with a separate method for calculating an amount for the University of Notre Dame Australia for 2021), grant amounts for an eligible higher education provider, other than the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2021, for the below years will be calculated using the following formulae:

Where:

A1 is $138,009,092;

A is the total amount available for the year under the HEPPP (see section 1.45.1);

B is the total number of domestic undergraduate students from low SES backgrounds enrolled at the relevant higher education provider in the most recent year for which HEIMS data is available;

C is the total number of domestic undergraduate students from low SES backgrounds enrolled at all Table A providers in the most recent year for which HEIMS data is available;

D is the total number of domestic undergraduate students with a permanent residential address in a regional area or a remote area at the time the person first enrols in a course of study with the relevant provider, in the most recent year for which HEIMS data is available;

E is the total number of domestic undergraduate students at all Table A providers that have a permanent residential address in a regional area or a remote area at the time the person first enrols in a course of study with their provider, in the most recent year for which HEIMS data is available;

F is the total number of domestic undergraduate Indigenous persons enrolled at the relevant higher education provider in the most recent year for which HEIMS data is available;

G is the total number of domestic undergraduate Indigenous persons enrolled at all Table A providers in the most recent year for which HEIMS data is available;

1.47.5 For the avoidance of doubt, when calculating the grant amount for a year under section 1.47.1, any grant amounts that were rolled over from the previous year under section 41-40 of the Act must not be taken into account.

3  Section 1.47A

 After subsection 1.47.15, insert:

1.47A Calculation of 2021 grant amount for the University of Notre Dame Australia

1.47A.1 For the year 2021, HEIMS data for the University of Notre Dame Australia is not to be included in the calculation of grant amounts for all other eligible providers under section 1.47.

1.47A.5 For the year 2021, the maximum grant amount for the University of Notre Dame Australia is to be the remainder of the total amount available for the year under HEPPP once the grant amounts for all other eligible providers have been calculated under section 1.47.

4  Section 8.15

Repeal the section, substitute:

8.15 Total NPILF funding

8.15.1  The amount, being a part of the amount referred to in section 41‑45 of the Act for a year, that will be spent on the program in 2021 is $225,250,000.

8.15.5 The amount, being a part of the amount referred to in section 41‑45 of the Act for a year, that will be spent on the program for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 is the total of all grant amounts calculated in accordance with clause 8.20.