Kelpie, they put the price of their MECIR up by quite a bit when they got fee-help, surely it can't all be to cover the extra admin cost can it?
Nothing in the law, rules or guidelines to stop that and to be honest the government have openly said they are not interested as this will be self regulated by competition between training providers. So, whilst unfavourable and unfortunate they are not actually doing anything wrong. When we start seeing evidence of collusion and cartelling between the training providers that would be the time for the government to step in.
There are risks to both the student and training provider in offering VETFEE funding so I guess their way of managing that is to jack up the cost a little and allow something for the increased administrative burden.
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