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6 July 2026

First-time Student Loan applicants can now accept their contract online, removing the need to sign a paper contract.

18 August 2025

Our annual call to action campaign encouraging students to apply for their 2026 student finance has started - and there are lots of things you can do to help.

26 November 2024

From 1 January 2025, the first-year Fees Free scheme is being replaced by a final-year scheme.

14 October 2024

From 1 January 2025, Accommodation Benefit rates for Waitomo, Westland, Waimate, and Southland will increase to $60 a week. This process is known as the Annual General Adjustment.

20 September 2024

Our annual call to action campaign encouraging students to apply for their 2025 student finance started on 23 September - and there are lots of things you can do to help.

21 November 2022

There are changes to our VoS Online passwords.

5 September 2018

Guidance on what to include in a VoS response that has fees information.

13 April 2018

The education provider is responsible for adjusting the courses in the learner’s programme as part of the initial admissions process.  

18 May 2017

The Tertiary Education Commission has introduced a new funding condition applying to programmes commencing on or after 1 January 2017 and revised the definition of withdrawal.

24 September 2014

The change to include Source of Funding (SoF) codes in Verification of Study (VoS) responses requires a variation to the current Information Matching Agreement.