How does a VET provider determine units of study for their courses?
It is up to the VET provider to determine how it divides up its courses of study into units of study. It may decide that a particular course will consist of only one unit of study or it may consist of a number of units of study. In deciding how to structure a course into units of study, potential VET providers should be aware that for VET FEE-HELP, students do not incur a liability (a VET FEE-HELP debt) for a unit of study until after the census date for that unit. This applies to all students whether they pay their tuition fees up-front or seek VET FEE-HELP assistance. A census date can be set no earlier than 20% of the way through a unit of study. Potential VET providers should consider the administrative load and the financial risks of students withdrawing or dropping out of the unit/s before the census date and therefore not being liable to pay any tuition fees for those units. This could happen if the VET provider has only one or a small number of units versus having numerous unit
