The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has partnered with five higher education institutions to offer tuition discounts between 10 to 25 per cent for FPA members.
The discount would be available for new, existing, and part-time postgraduate students at Deakin University, Kaplan Professional, Swinburne University, TAFE NSW, and The University of Newcastle.
Commenting, FPA chief executive, Dante De Gori said: “These discounts will be valuable to members as they strive to meet their education and professional obligations”.
The course discounts were:
- Deakin University’s discount of 15 per cent means FPA members are entitled to an enrolment fee of $2,762.50 per subject in all postgraduate programs under the Deakin Business School;
- Kaplan Professional’s discount of 25 per cent means FPA members are entitled to an enrolment fee of $1,800 per subject in all FASEA-approved postgraduate programs;
- Swinburne University’s discount of 15 per cent means FPA members are entitled to an enrolment fee of $2,763 per subject in all FASEA-approved postgraduate programs;
- TAFE NSW’s discount of 10 per cent means FPA members are entitled to an enrolment fee of $1,935 per FASEA-approved bridging unit; and
- The University of Newcastle’s discount of 10 per cent means FPA members are entitled to an enrolment fee of $2,502 per FASEA-approved bridging unit.
The FPA said the discounts were valid until mid-year 2020, except Swinburne University which will end the discount during semester two 2022.
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What's the point of discounts that are only valid until mid 2020? That's effectively only one semester. Those advisers needing to do Grad Dips will need to be studying well beyond that timeframe, and are likely to face large price increases after they have locked themselves into a particular institution. Sounds like a dodgy marketing tactic.
Please resign Dante. These are the guys that made a submission to FASEA stacked with Broke University academics in 2017/18 calling for prior experience, CFP, Degrees to be worth about 20 points out of 100 and called for a new Bachelor of Financial Planning only approved by their FPEC subsidiary to be the sole benchmark degree.
20,000 people listed on the FAR at $2,000 a subject doing say anywhere from 1 to 8 subjects and so let's say 5 subjects that's still a massive $200 million dollar windfall to the University sector. What's going on here Has a Volume based payment with the FPA been negotiated perhaps?
We can now add this breakthrough to the list...so far it now consists of the ability to witness a stat dec as the FPA's biggest achievement in the last 20 years.
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