HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ACT 1988

CHAPTER 4 - HIGHER EDUCATION CONTRIBUTION SCHEME  

PART 4.1 - PRELIMINARY  

SECTION 36   STUDENT LOAD NOT TO INCLUDE WORK EXPERIENCE IN INDUSTRY  

36(1)    
If:


(a) a student is undertaking a course of study at an institution; and


(b) the student does work outside the institution as part of, or in connection with, that course of study; and


(c) the work is not supervised by a member of the institution's staff or by a person who is paid by the institution to do such supervision; and


(d) the purpose of doing the work is to obtain work experience in industry;

then, for the purposes of this Chapter, the student's student load for that course does not include that work.


36(2)    
Section (1) applies whether or not the work forms part of the standard student load for that course.

36(3)    
The Minister may issue guidelines setting out criteria that the institution must apply in deciding whether the requirements in paragraphs (1)(a), (b), (c) and (d) are satisfied.





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