Providers news
Keep up to date with changes and news from StudyLink.
From 1 January 2025, the first-year Fees Free scheme is being replaced by a final-year scheme.
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.
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.
Guidance on what to include in a VoS response that has fees information.
The education provider is responsible for adjusting the courses in the learner’s programme as part of the initial admissions process.
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.
The change to include Source of Funding (SoF) codes in Verification of Study (VoS) responses requires a variation to the current Information Matching Agreement.
Education providers will soon be required to include Source of Funding (SoF) codes in the Verification of Study (VoS) responses used to confirm students' study details.
From 2015 the Source of Funding code will be included with Verification of Study details passed from education providers to StudyLink.