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>> Employee Benefits
Study Leave and Course Discounts
Course Discounts
Employees
(with a minimum .5 time fraction, excluding sessional or casual staff)
enrolling in a Swinburne Higher Education full fee paying postgraduate course will be eligible for a 15% discount.
All employees (including sessionals) enrolling in a TAFE course, relating to their work, are required to pay only a nominal fee ($55 in 2008):
Study Leave
General and Academic General and Academic staff are provided study leave in the Certified Agreement:
To be eligible for study leave, a course of study must be relevant to the employee's position and have the ability to enhance the knowledge, skills and/or expertise of the incumbent. It is the responsibility of the Head of Management Unit to determine whether or not a course of study meets these requirements in order for an employee to have an entitlement to this provision.
Study Leave entitlements are as follows:
- one subject per semester: up to 3 hours per week for the attendance of lectures and tutorials and up to 2 days per annum for the preparing and attending of examinations.
- two or more subjects per semester: up to five hours per week for the attendance of lectures and tutorials and up to 4 days per annum for the preparing and attending of examinations.
- Distance Education: as above, with the employee being entitled to the stated hours for the preparation of course work, rather than the attending lectures or tutorials. Preparing and attending examinations is in accordance with the above mentioned formula, depending of number of subjects.
TAFE Teaching
TAFE Teachers are provided 30 hours of scheduled duties for professional development each year and, in accordance with the certified agreement, will not be unreasonably refused (paid and/or unpaid) study leave or industrial release related to qualification and skills required for progression.
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