Regional Protection Scheme (RPS)

About the RPS

The RPS helps to protect designated regional Higher Education Providers (HEPs) from losses of income against their indexed 2001 RTS and IGS combined grants.

The RPS Grant may be used at the HEP’s discretion for any RTS or IGS objective.

Guidelines

The RPS is a programme specified in Chapter 8 of the Other Grants Guidelines (made under section 238-10 of the Higher Education Support Act, 2003).

The RPS guidelines applying to 2008 can be downloaded from the Australian Government’s Federal Register of Legislative Instruments at:

• Legislative Instrument - F2006L03785

Conditions

The RPS Grant Amounts for 2008 have been provided to HEPs on the basis of the conditions outlined in the following document:

• 2008 RTS Conditions of Grant (including student eligibility criteria)    (86.2 KB)
• 2008 RTS Conditions of Grant (including student eligibility criteria)    (214.0

Process for determining RPS grant amounts

• 2008 RPS process calculations    (38.0 KB)
• 2008 RPS process calculations    (96.6 KB)

Contact: RBGrants@dest.gov.au