13/11/24 Newsletter: Important dates, Famil tours, Local sundowner, and campus spotlight

dear valued partner, what a year! as we come to a close for 2024 we reflect back on what has been a challenging year for the international education industry with the commonwealth government’s implementation of the migration strategy and changes to student visas and impending amendments to the esos act, education providers, agents and partners alike, have had to adapt their admissions, compliance and marketing recruitment processes and practises, almost instantaneously, to suit the changes despite these pressures and sentiment around australia appearing to be an unwelcoming study destination, the sector and its peak bodies have bandied together to make sense of things and to remain positive for 2025 and beyond it was heart warming to see university, vocational, english language colleagues and agent partners all together last month at the aiec conference in melbourne, to discuss similar issues and challenges, impacting us all the conference theme, the “human element”, was as poignant as ever; despite challenging times, our key focus should always be our students, their welfare and the opportunities an australian education can offer thank you to all our valued agents and partners your hard work and support in navigating the changing landscape with us, has been very much appreciated please enjoy a wonderful christmas and holiday break, and the final newsletter for this year best wishes, alicia woods a/associate director – recruitment, strategy and stakeholder relations important dates start dates 2025 offshore enrolments semester 1 2025 applications are now closed all offshore applicants should be seeking a semester 2 2025 enrolment onshore enrolments as of 13/11/24 these can still be considered for semester 1 2025 see admissions or your regional manager payments 2024 semester 1 2025 continuing students have received a fee notice payment options are as follows if a continuing student wishes to withdraw from semester 1 2025, a written request must be made prior to 4pm friday 29 november 2024, or tuition fees will be payable and withdraw penalties applied as per the refund policy option a pay in full by friday 6 december 2024 option b submit the instalment form to have the $200 instalment fee waived due by 4pm friday 29 november 2024 instalment requests submitted after this date will include a $200 instalment fee instalment schedule 1st instalment – thursday 5 december 2024 2nd instalment – thursday 2 january 2025 3rd instalment – thursday 30 january 2025 4th instalment – thursday 27 february 2025 5th instalment – thursday 27 march 2025 graduation 2024 the tiwa semester 2 2024 graduation ceremony is being held on thursday 12 december 2024, 4 30pm 7 00pm at the pan pacific perth, grand ballroom, 207 adelaide tce perth a record of 361 students will be graduating, and minister templeman will be in attendance it is going to be a wonderful evening! 2025 orientation orientation dates for tafe will be confirmed in january 2025 students should arrive one week prior to their coe start date, as the orientation session is generally held the week prior to the start date late orientations can be arranged with the college if arrival prior to the coe start date is not possible 2025 tuition fees effective from 1 november, tafe tuition fees for 2025 have been updated on the tiwa website, and students have been notified accordingly all continuing students with outstanding future tuition fees have had their balances updated to reflect the new 2025 fee rates continuing students received a semester 1, 2025 fee notice on 1 november 2024 office close down dates tiwa will be closed over the christmas and new year period from wednesday 25 december 2024, reopening on thursday 2 january 2025 if there is an emergency for any of your students during this time please call the associate director customer service, quality & compliance on 0407 022 932 familiarisation tours regional tafe college tour as part of a state government funded initiative, tiwa 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