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Other Grants Guidelines

The Other Grants Guidelines contain requirements on grants payable to higher education providers and other eligible bodies for a variety of purposes.

Items Purpose of Grant Program
1. Grants to promote equality of opportunity in higher education Higher Education Disability Support Program
Higher Education Equity Support Program
Indigenous Support Program
2. Grants to promote the productivity of higher education providers
3. Grants to enhance learning and teaching in higher education Learning and Teaching Performance Fund
4. Grants to support national institutes specified in the Other Grants Guidelines for the purposes of this item National Institutes
5. Grants to support the capital development project of higher education providers Capital Development Pool
6. Grants to assist with the cost of higher education providers' superannuation liabilities Superannuation Program
7. Grants to support research by , and the research capability of, higher education providers Research Infrastructure Block Grants
Institutional Grants Scheme
8. Grants to support the training of research students Research Training Scheme
Regional Protection Scheme
Commercialisation Training Scheme
9. Grants to foster collaboration and reform in higher education Collaboration and Structural Reform Fund - – subsumed by the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund
9A. Grants to Support Diversity and Structural Reform Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund
10. Grants to support the development of systemic infrastructure used by higher education providers

Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
The Implementation Assistance Program
The Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories

11. Grants for activities that:
  1. Assure and enhance the quality of Australia's higher education sector ; or
     
  2. Foster an understanding of the importance of, or promote research and scholarship in, science, social science or the humanities in Australia; or
     
  3. Support open access to higher education across Australia
Quality Initiatives
Grants-in-Aid and Learned Academies
Chair in Child Protection
Open Universities Australia
12.

Grants to assist with transitional costs of changes to maximum student contribution amounts

Transitional Costs Program

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  • Current Guidelines (2006) and Amendments
  • Previous Guidelines and Amendments
  • Contact for Guidelines

    • Current Guidelines (2006) and Amendments

    The Other Grants Guidelines 2006 were registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) on 22 November 2006.  These guidelines revoke and replace the Other Grants Guidelines made on 13 August 2004 and all subsequent amendments to the same.

    Amendments

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    Previous Guidelines and Amendments

    Other Grants Guidelines (as gazetted on 13 August 2003)

    Amendment No. 1 to the Other Grants Guidelines (as gazetted on 8 December 2004)

    Amendment No. 2 to the Other Grants Guidelines (as gazetted on 8 December 2004)

    Consolidated Other Grants Guidelines (incorporating Amendment No. 1 and No. 2)

    Amendments No. 3 to No. 7 to the Other Grants Guidelines  You are now leaving the DEST website  

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    Contact for Guidelines

    Shayla Ribeiro
    Higher Education Group
    Email: shayla.ribeiro@deewr.gov.au

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