The seven year limit on Commonwealth funded undergraduate study kicked in January -but do new students know it affects them? Or that they can get a second go later?

The learned Andrew Norton points to a DoE (that which was DESE) document that summarise the new rules on Commonwealth Supported Places – presumably to help student-facing staff explain how they apply.

The big one is the seven year cap on UG enrolment – which makes it important that students also know courses/subject they fail or just don’t finish count.

It’s a message that needs getting out there, which may be why the department tells providers it “undertook research with students to determine their understanding of census date.”

What was discovered is (readers may not be amazed to learn) not revealed.

But it can’t have been great given, “the research resulted in a number of recommendation that apply to education providers and their communications to students about the census date.”  And so there will be advice, to “help students better understand and engage with census date.”

And as for the seven years and one is out rule, CMM maybe the last to know, but apparently, it is not final.

“Noting that students may look to upskill/reskill and commence further study later in life,” the feds will grant three more years of CSP study, starting ten years after they first enrolled.