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Limited full-time status

Provides the definition for limited full-time status.

Limited full-time status is a provision for students who are unable to undertake the workload of a full-time course due to one of the following reasons:

  • You're finishing a recognised programme and to do this you need to study less than full time but more than half of a full-time course, or
  • Your education provider supports your application to study less than full-time for one of the following reasons:
    - you have an illness that stops you from studying full time, or
    - you can't study full-time where there reasons beyond your control (this
      could include a disability which stops you studying full- time), or
    - it's in your best interests to study less than full time.
Last updated: 18 September 2009