• Given the increased benefits that you can gain from a Certificate 3 Qualification, you are required to contribute to the cost of your training through a student co-contribution fee, payable to the training provider.
• The fee may be paid on your behalf by an employer or a third party but cannot be paid by the training provider.
• Co-Contribution fees: $100 Concessional and $200 Non-concessional

To be eligible to enrol in the Higher Level Skills Program, prospective students:

• Must hold a trade qualification Certificate III in the Construction Industry.
• Must be aged 15 years or over, and no longer at school.
• Must permanently reside in Queensland.
• Must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident (includes humanitarian entrant), temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency, or a New Zealand citizen.
• Must not hold, and not be enrolled in, a certificate IV or higher-level qualification, not including qualifications completed at school and foundation skills training.

• Drivers licence. or
• Living in Queensland (bank account, phone account rates) etc.
• Employer letter stating employment status and occupation.
• Green Medicare card or Birth certificate or passport.

• The student holds a Health Care Concession Card or Pensioner Concession Card issued under Commonwealth Law, or is the partner of or dependant on a person who holds a Health Care Concession Card or Pensioner Concession Card, and is named on the card.
• The student provides the PQS with an official form under Commonwealth Law confirming that the student, his or her partner, or the person of whom the student is a dependant, is entitled to concessions under a health care or pensioner concession card.
• The student is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
• The student is in a school student program (may include youth in detention).
• The student has a disability.
• The student is an adult prisoner.

Certificate 3 Guarantee fact sheet