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Specific eligibility requirements

Specific eligibility requirements for CECS and CAS

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements, to be eligible for CECS or CAS, students are required to be undertaking:

Additional CAS eligibility requirements

Students are not eligible for CECS or CAS if they have already received CECS or CAS for the maximum duration (equivalent of eight scholarship periods).

 

Specific eligibility requirements for CECS-Priority Discipline and CAS-Specialists

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements, to be eligible for CECS-Priority Discipline, students are required to be undertaking:

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements, to be eligible for CAS-Specialists, students are required to:

Students are not eligible for CECS-Priority Discipline or CAS-Specialists if they have already received CECS-Priority Discipline or CAS-Specialists for the maximum duration (equivalent of eight scholarship periods).

 

Specific eligibility requirements for CECS-Associate Degree and CAS-Associate Degree

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements for a student to be eligible for CECS-Associate Degree or CAS-Associate Degree, students are required to be undertaking an Associate Degree program of study.

Additional CAS-Associate Degree eligibility requirements

Students are not eligible for CECS-Associate Degree or CAS-Associate Degree if they have already received CECS-Associate Degree or CAS-Associate Degree for the maximum duration (equivalent of four scholarship periods).

 

Specific eligibility requirements for CECS-Indigenous Enabling and CAS-Indigenous Enabling

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements, to be eligible for CECS-Indigenous Enabling or CAS-Indigenous Enabling, students are required to be undertaking an eligible enabling program either full time or part time, if studying part time, noting that:

Additional CAS-Indigenous Enabling eligibility requirements

Both CECS-Indigenous Enabling and CAS-Indigenous Enabling are open to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian students.

Students are not eligible for CECS-Indigenous Enabling or CAS-Indigenous Enabling if they have already received a CECS-Indigenous Enabling or CAS-Indigenous Enabling for the maximum duration (equivalent of two scholarships periods).

 

Specific eligibility requirements for Indigenous Access

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements for a student to be eligible for Indigenous Access, students are required to be a commencing student, and have accepted the offer of a place in; or be enrolled in; or undertaking a program in an eligible enabling program or an undergraduate program of study.

Indigenous Access is open to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian students.

Students are not eligible for Indigenous Access if they have previously received an Indigenous Access (one-off payment).

 

Additional CAS requirements

In addition to the basic eligibility requirements and specific eligibility requirements described above for a student to be eligible for CAS, CAS-Associate Degree, and CAS-Indigenous Enabling scholarship UniSA must be satisfied that:

  1. within the four years immediately preceding the commencement of the current higher education program of study, the student:
    i) has lived in a regional or remote area of Australia for a total of at least three years OR
    ii) completed the final two years of schooling in a high school or college in a regional or remote area OR
    iii) moved away from a regional or remote home to complete the whole or the majority of their secondary schooling at a high school or college in a major city OR
    iv) has lived in regional or remote area of Australia for a total of at least two years and relocated from the regional or remote area to undertake vocational education and training (e.g. TAFE) for a maximum of two years duration immediately preceding commencement of their undergraduate course
     
  2. it was necessary for the student to move from the regional or remote area in order to undertake their higher education study; or in the case of paragraph (a. iii) and iv)) above, it was necessary for the student to remain in a major city in order to undertake their higher education study
     
  3. as a result of (b), the student will incur additional accommodation costs
     
  4. the student is enrolled as an internal student in unit of study that form part of the program of study the student is undertaking. Some students may have exceptional circumstances preventing them from enrolling in any internal units. Some students enrolled externally may be deemed eligible in exceptional circumstances. For example, students with a disability or significant carer responsibilities.

In determining a student's eligibility for a CAS, UniSA will determine whether the student has lived in a rural or regional area consistent with Australian Bureau of Statistic's ASGC Remoteness Areas classification. The classifications are:

Check the classification of your home postcode

A student who has come from a locality classed as belonging to the Major Cities of Australia class will be deemed ineligible for a CAS.

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