To be considered for a NSW Smart & Skilled funded training place with KARBEN Training Solutions you must meet the program eligibility requirements.

In order to determine your eligibility and an accurate quote to be provided please complete this Smart & Skilled eligibility form. 

What is the address of your usual residence?

Please provide the physical address (street number and name not post office box) where you usually reside rather than any temporary address at which you reside for training, work or other purposes before returning to your home.

If you are from a rural area use the address from your state or territory’s ‘rural property addressing’ or ‘numbering’ system as your residential street address.

Building/property name is the official place name or common usage name for an address site, including the name of a building, Aboriginal community, homestead, building complex, agricultural property, park or unbounded address site.

Please refer to the NSW Smart and Skilled Fee-Free Scholarships fact sheet for eligibility and more information.

Fee-Free Scholarships – For concession-eligible students

Please refer to the NSW Smart and Skilled Fee-Free Scholarships fact sheet for eligibility and more information.

Fee-Free Scholarships – For young people in out-of-home care

Please refer to the NSW Smart and Skilled Fee-Free Scholarships fact sheet for eligibility and more information.

Fee-Free Scholarships – For people who are experiencing or have experienced domestic and family violence

Please refer to the NSW Smart and Skilled Fee-Free Scholarships fact sheet for eligibility and more information.

Fee-Free Scholarships – For concession-eligible students

understand and agree that, under the Data Provision Requirements 2012, KARBEN Training Solutions is required to collect personal information (information or an opinion about me), collected from me, my parent or guardian, such as my name, Unique Student Identifier, date of birth, contact details, training outcomes and performance, sensitive personal information (including my ethnicity or health information) and other enrolment and training activity-related information (together Personal Information) and disclose that Personal Information to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd (NCVER).

My personal information (including the personal information contained on my enrolment form and my training activity data) may be used or disclosed by KARBEN Training Solutions for statistical, regulatory and research purposes. KARBEN Training Solutions may disclose my personal information for these purposes to third parties, including:

• School – if I am a secondary student undertaking VET, including a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship;
• Employer – if I am enrolled in training paid by my employer;
• Commonwealth and State or Territory government departments and authorised agencies, including the NSW Department of Industry (Department);
• NCVER;
• Organisations conducting student surveys; and
• Researchers.

Personal information disclosed to NCVER may be used or disclosed for the following purposes:

• Issuing a VET Statement of Attainment or VET Qualification, and populating Authenticated VET Transcripts;
• Facilitating statistics and research relating to education, including surveys;
• Understanding how the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning and consumer information; and
• Administering VET, including program administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation.

I may receive an NCVER student survey which may be administered by an NCVER employee, agent or third-party contractor. I may opt-out of the survey at the time of being contacted.

NCVER will collect, hold, use and disclose my Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the VET Data Policy and all NCVER policies and protocols (including those published on NCVER’s website at www.ncver.edu.au).

The Department may disclose my Personal Information to other Australian government agencies, including those located in States and Territories outside New South Wales. 

The above government agencies may use my Personal Information for any purpose relating to the exercise of their government functions, including but not limited to the evaluation and assessment of my training, the determination of my eligibility to receive subsidised training or for any Fee Exemptions or Concessions. My Personal Information may also be disclosed to other third parties if required by law. 

I also acknowledge and agree that the Department may contact me by telephone, email or post during or after I have ceased subsidised training with KARBEN Training Solutions for the purposes of evaluating and assessing my subsidised training. 

* Parental/guardian consent is required for all students under the age of 18