Terms of Payment
Full terms and conditions are outlined in the SURFCiTY College Student Handbook
Cost
Unassessed: $150 per subject
Assessed: download application form
Payment of Fees: Overview
All fees are to be paid in full in advance. Where full payment cannot be made in advance the student can sign an agreement with the College enabling him/her to make weekly payments. All weekly payments must be made in advance of the week of study.
Non-Assessed students are required to pay a minimum of $20 before receiving a manual.
International Students will be invoiced from the 5th week of study and are required to pay their fees by the end of the term.
Payment of Fees: Policy
Australian Students
Students will be issued with an invoice within two weeks of their Subject Registration being received, prior to the beginning of each term. Each student is required to pay at least one termʼs fees in advance; however, progress payments can be made, if the student cannot make full payment of one termʼs fees in advance. To pay by progress payments you are required to sign an agreement for the college to direct debit your credit card, bank account, or centrelink payments, beginning the first week of term until all debts are paid. Progress payments must always be made in advance of the week of study.
Failure to pay your fees could be regarded as grounds for expulsion from the College. Direct debit arrangements can be made with the Head of Students Services of the College.
Overseas Students
Overseas students are not required to pay tuition fees in advance. In accordance with the Education Services for Overseas Trainees Act, the college has elected to collect fees from overseas students in arrears. International Students are expect to begin making payments on their fees from the fifth week of term onwards.
All fees must be paid by the final week of term. If a students wishes to study in the following term, all outstanding fees must be paid.
Refund Policy
SURFCiTY INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COLLEGE operates an equitable refund policy, guaranteeing the refund of fees to students in the event of course cancellation or of student withdrawal for good reason. In reference to this policy, the following procedures are to be applied on a term by term basis. All fees paid in advance beyond the term under consideration are to be refunded in full.
Procedure
Should SURFCiTY INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COLLEGE cancel any competency or course, participants are entitled to a full refund, or transfer of funds to another competency or course, or future competency or course.
No refund is available to participants who leave before finalising the competency or term, unless they can provide a medical certificate or show extreme personal hardship. In that case fees for that term will be refunded on a pro-rata basis. In the case of student withdrawal for good reason, SURFCiTY INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COLLEGE undertakes to:
Provide the student with pastoral support in the first instance to see if an alternative to withdrawal is to be found. It would be appropriate at that stage for the college to ask for the student to provide a medical certificate and/or a letter from the studentʼs pastor detailing the reasons for withdrawal. If the student withdraws then the option is given of having any fees that have been paid credited to their account for future studies on the same pro-rata basis as below.
If withdrawal is confirmed in writing then the following pro-rata refunds would apply:
Withdrawal during week 1 of the term:
No financial or academic penalty (full refund of fees, or student credit account given.)
Withdrawal during week 2 of the term:
$10.00 administrative fee levied per subject. Refund of 7/8 (87.5%) of fees paid. No academic penalty.
Withdrawal during week 3 of the term:
$20.00 administrative fee levied per subject. Refund of ¾ (75%) of fees paid. No academic penalty.
Withdrawal during week 4 of the term
$40.00 administrative fee levied per subject. Refund of ½ (50%) of fees paid. No academic penalty
Withdrawal during weeks 5-10 of the term
No refund given, student awarded a Competency Not Yet Achieved Result.
NB: In the event that a student leaves college without having paid fees he/she will still be responsible for the fees owing on the incremental basis outlined above. For example, in the event that the student withdraws during the fifth week or later without paying fees, that student will still be responsible to pay full fees and will be billed accordingly.
Overseas Students
SURFCiTY INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COLLEGE subscribes to a policy of only taking overseas student fees in arrears. This means that fees paid per term by overseas students can only be paid after the end of the fourth week, when in terms of the Collegeʼs Refund Policy, no refund is due the student who withdraws.
Enrolled overseas students who withdraw before the fifth week will be asked to pay fees on a pro rata basis as in the Refund Policy.
