Enrolment Form

PRIVACY NOTICE

Why We Collect Your Personal Information

As a registered training organisation (RTO), the Australian College of Future Education (ACOFE) collects your personal information so we can process and manage your enrolment in a vocational education and training (VET) course with us.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your personal information to enable us to deliver VET courses to you, and otherwise, as needed, to comply with our obligations as an RTO.

How We Disclose Your Personal Information

We are required by law (under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth) (NVETR Act)) to disclose the personal information we collect about you to the National VET Data Collection kept by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER). The NCVER is responsible for collecting, managing, analysing, and communicating research and statistics about the Australian VET sector.

We are also authorised by law (under the NVETR Act) to disclose your personal information to the relevant state or territory training authority.

How NCVER and Other Bodies Handle Your Personal Information

NCVER will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with the law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the NVETR Act. Your personal information may be used and disclosed by NCVER for purposes that include:

• Populating authenticated VET transcripts;
• Administration of VET;
• Facilitation of statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage;
• Understanding the VET market.

NCVER is authorised to disclose information to the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), Commonwealth authorities, state and territory authorities (other than registered training organisations) that deal with matters relating to VET and VET regulators for the purposes of those bodies, including to enable:

• Administration of VET, including program administration, regulation, monitoring, and evaluation;
• Facilitation of statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage;
• Understanding how the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning, and consumer information.

NCVER may also disclose personal information to persons engaged by NCVER to conduct research on NCVER’s behalf.

NCVER does not intend to disclose your personal information to any overseas recipients.

For more information about how NCVER will handle your personal information please refer to the NCVER’s Privacy Policy.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

If you would like to seek access to or correct your information, in the first instance, please contact ACOFE using the contact details listed below.

DEWR’s Handling of Your Personal Information

DEWR is authorised by law, including the Privacy Act and the NVETR Act, to collect, use, and disclose your personal information to fulfil specified functions and activities. For more information about how DEWR will handle your personal information, please refer to the DEWR VET Privacy Notice.

Surveys

You may receive a student survey which may be run by a government department or an NCVER employee, agent, third-party contractor, or another authorised agency. Please note you may opt out of the survey at the time of being contacted.

Contact Information

At any time, you may contact ACOFE to:

• Request access to your personal information;
• Correct your personal information;
• Make a complaint about how your personal information has been handled;
• Ask a question about this Privacy Notice.

Please refer to ACOFE’s Privacy Policy available on our website. You may contact us to get a copy of the Privacy Policy as well. Click Here

DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT

 

If you indicated the presence of a disability, impairment, or long-term condition, please select the area(s) in the following list. Disability in this context does not include short-term disabling health conditions such as a fractured leg, influenza, or corrected physical conditions such as impaired vision managed by wearing glasses or lenses.

‘11 — Hearing/deaf’
Hearing impairment is used to refer to a person who has an acquired mild, moderate, severe, or profound hearing loss after learning to speak, communicates orally, and maximises residual hearing with the assistance of amplification. A person who is deaf has a severe or profound hearing loss from, at, or near birth and mainly relies upon vision to communicate, whether through lip reading, gestures, cued speech, finger spelling, and/or sign language.

‘12 — Physical’
A physical disability affects the mobility or dexterity of a person and may include a total or partial loss of a part of the body. A physical disability may have existed since birth or may be the result of an accident, illness, or injury suffered later in life; for example, amputation, arthritis, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, paraplegia, quadriplegia, or post-polio syndrome.

‘13 — Intellectual’
In general, the term ‘intellectual disability’ is used to refer to low general intellectual functioning and difficulties in adaptive behaviour, both of which conditions were manifested before the person reached the age of 18. It may result from infection before or after birth, trauma during birth, or illness.

‘14 — Learning’
A general term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities. These disorders are intrinsic to the individual, presumed to be due to central nervous system dysfunction, and may occur across the lifespan. Problems in self-regulatory behaviours, social perception, and social interaction may exist with learning disabilities but do not by themselves constitute a learning disability.

‘15 — Mental illness’
Mental illness refers to a cluster of psychological and physiological symptoms that cause a person suffering or distress and which represent a departure from a person’s usual pattern and level of functioning.

‘16 — Acquired brain impairment’
Acquired brain impairment is injury to the brain that results in deterioration in cognitive, physical, emotional, or independent functioning. Acquired brain impairment can occur as a result of trauma, hypoxia, infection, tumour, accidents, violence, substance abuse, degenerative neurological diseases, or stroke. These impairments may be either temporary or permanent and cause partial or total disability or psychosocial maladjustment.

‘17 — Vision’
This covers a partial loss of sight causing difficulties in seeing, up to and including blindness. This may be present from birth or acquired as a result of disease, illness, or injury.

‘18 — Medical condition’
Medical condition is a temporary or permanent condition that may be hereditary, genetically acquired, or of unknown origin. The condition may not be obvious or readily identifiable, yet may be mildly or severely debilitating and result in fluctuating levels of wellness and sickness, and/or periods of hospitalisation; for example, HIV/AIDS, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s disease, cystic fibrosis, asthma, or diabetes.

‘19 — Other’
A disability, impairment, or long-term condition which is not suitably described by one or several disability types in combination. Autism spectrum disorders are reported under this category.

Terms and Conditions

• ACOFE does not accept fee amounts more than $1500 in advance as fee payment.
• ACOFE will strive to maintain highly competitive fair and reasonable fee structures.
• ACOFE adjusts its fees and charges from time to time. Changes to fees will be fairly and equitably applied, advertised, and clearly indicate the date from which the change will take effect.
• ACOFE provides details of course fees in all course information.
• ACOFE will ensure these fees are applied and communicated to clients prior to enrolment.
• In accordance with the Standards for RTOs, ACOFE adopts the following to protect fees paid in advance:
  • Flexible payment arrangements/options will accommodate individual circumstances. This can be in the form of monthly installments.
  • Fees must be paid in full before certification will be issued.
• Acceptable payment options can be made via credit card, direct debit, and EFT remittance to accommodate the diverse financial situations of clients.

Entry Requirements

Qualification Package Entry Requirements

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

ACOFE Admission Requirements

ACOF has the following admission requirements for all students:

• Be 18 years of age or over.
• Possess a current, full, and unrestricted Australian driver's licence.
• Fulfil all of the relevant state or territory regulatory requirements.
• Be of good character (fit and proper) by providing a satisfactory National Police Clearance check and a complete Traffic History check. Both checks are to be undertaken by Police, issued within six weeks prior to the date of endorsement application, or as varied in writing by the Regulator.
• Be medically fit (a medical examination is required where evidence of a recent check within six months prior to the date of endorsement application cannot be provided).
• Applicants are required to have successfully completed a Pre-Enrolment Review and Language, Literacy, Numeracy, and Digital Literacy (LLND) test before enrolment. The student may be exempted from the LLND test if they have already completed an Australian Qualification of Certificate IV or higher level prior to enrolment.

Note you will be required to provide an original of one of the following documents:

• An Australian Birth Certificate (not Birth Extract);
• A current Australian Passport;
• A current New Zealand Passport;
• A naturalisation certificate;
• A current green Medicare Card; or
• Formal documentation issued by the Australian Department of Human Affairs confirming permanent residence.

If the document produced from the list above does not include your date of birth, you will also need to provide:

• A current drivers licence.
• A current learner permit.
• A Proof of Age card.
• A ‘Keypass’ card.