Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01607:schedule:1:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01607
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 5/10)
Character Range: 13188–16158

provide grants to higher education providers to:

       (a)    assist providers to link with other providers, schools, vocational education and training (VET) providers and community organisations to develop and implement outreach initiatives in regional areas and remote areas;
       (b)    support collaboration between Table A providers to ensure a coordinated approach to identifying and engaging with appropriate stakeholders;
       (c)    direct resources to most effectively target regional areas and remote areas where aspirations to enter higher education are low and where matriculation to higher education is poor; and
       (d)    facilitate research and collaboration in the higher education sector and support an ongoing nationally coherent response to issues and barriers faced by students from regional areas and remote areas.

1.55 Total amount of Regional Partnerships Project Pool Program funding

    1.55.1 The total amount of funding available each year for the Regional Partnerships Project Pool Program is $1,784,000.

    Note: this amount will be adjusted each year using the method of indexation set out in Part 5-6, Division 198 of the Act.

Division 4 – Regional Loading Program (RLP)

1.56 Program objectives

1.56.1 The key objective of the RLP is to promote equality of opportunity in higher education by providing additional funding to eligible higher education providers to assist those providers to offset the disparity in costs and revenue of regional campuses in comparison with major city campuses.

1.57 Extra conditions of eligibility

1.57.1 A provider will be eligible for an RLP grant in relation to a particular campus if the average student load for the campus is a minimum of 50 internal and multi-modal Commonwealth supported student EFTSL.

1.57.5 For the purposes of this Division, the average student load at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education will be considered as Commonwealth supported student load at Charles Darwin University.

1.58 Total amount of RLP grants

    1.58.1 RLP grants are made in respect of a calendar year.

    1.58.5 The total amount of funding available to all eligible providers under the RLP in each year is fixed.

    1.58.10 In the 2020 calendar year, the total amount of RLP funding was $75,089,678.

    1.58.15 The total amount of RLP funding available in later years is the total amount of RLP funding in 2020 indexed in accordance with the method set out in Part 5-6 of the Act.

    1.58.20 For individual eligible providers, the RLP grant amount will be calculated in accordance with the formula set out in section 1.59 below.

1.59 Calculation of grant amounts

Average student load

1.59.1 A grant under the RLP for each eligible provider will be calculated using the most recent Commonwealth supported student load data for the reporting years as verified by the provider through the HESDC and accepted by the Department.

1.59.5 The average