Smart and Skilled Entitlement Full Qualifications

Eligibility criteria for all Smart and Skilled Programs (except Smart and Skilled Entitlement Apprenticeships and Traineeships Program)

A person who is eligible to receive subsidised training in all Smart and Skilled Programs (except Smart and Skilled Entitlement Apprenticeships and Traineeships Program) is a person who, at the time of enrolment in a qualification or course on the NSW Skills List or a “short course” with a Smart and Skilled provider:

• lives or works in NSW (determined by postcode of the usual place of residence or place of work); or
  
• an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student who does not live or work in NSW but lives in specific defined interstate NSW border areas (see Appendix 2: Defined interstate NSW border areas) is eligible for government-subsidised training under Smart and Skilled; and
  
• is:
  • an Australian citizen; or 
  • a permanent Australian resident; or
  • a New Zealand citizen; or 
  • a humanitarian visa holder or a partner visa holder whose sponsor is a humanitarian visa holder (see Appendix 1: Refugees and asylum seekers for more information); and
  • is aged 15 years or older; and
  • is no longer in secondary education - except for registered home school students (See relevant sections below for further information).