Sydney Hair Design College

The Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) was advised on 7 July 2011 of the activation of the Tuition Assurance Scheme (TAS) process for Sydney Hair Design College (SHDC) due to the inability of the college to continue delivering courses to students.

It is important for creditors, students and other people affected by the closure of this college to note that:

• ACPET is not Sydney Hair Design College (SHDC)
• ACPET is not the Administrator and
• ACPET does not have any student fees, or other money from Sydney Hair Design College (SHDC)

ACPET manages the TAS of which this college was a member.

Relocation

Shortly ACPET will be providing students with information on how they can be assisted via the ACPET TAS. Our priority is to assist students with a suitable alternative placement as soon as possible.

Click here for a Relocation Request Form

A student meeting will be organised to inform you of your rights and responsibilities under the legislation, see details below. ACPET will inform you at this meeting of the ways ACPET can assist you.

This meeting is for students ONLY.   NO agents/relatives/friends will be allowed entry. If you are under 18 years of age you are allowed to bring your parent/guardian.  To be allowed entry into this Student Meeting you must bring photo ID (e.g. student ID card).

Note: If you did not have a student ID with the college you will need to bring photo ID (e.g. passport) AND evidence that you were a student of this college (e.g. CoE, receipts).

Student Meeting - Details to be confirmed

Meeting Date:
Registration Time:
Meeting Time:
Venue Address:

Contacting ACPET

Students may contact ACPET in writing via:

• Email: shdc [at] acpet [dot] edu [dot] au
• Fax: 03 9416 1895
• Post: PO Box 551, East Melbourne, Victoria 8002

Note: Only requests in writing will receive a response.

By collecting information in writing ACPET is better able to respond accurately and quickly to your requests.  Students who phone ACPET will be directed back to this email/fax number. If you email, you will receive an acknowledgement of your email within 2 business days.  ACPET guarantees to reply to you, therefore if you do not receive a reply back please check your Junk Mail folders to see that the email did not get filtered as Junk.

When contacting ACPET, please provide the following information IN THE SUBJECT LINE of your email:

1. Student ID number
2. Full Name
3. Date of Birth
4. Type of student- Domestic or International student

Sample email – Note information in subject line

Note:Emails are answered in order of receipt, there are no priority lists. If you email the wrong inbox it will delay the response as your email will be forwarded to the correct inbox and be in the queue from THAT date

Information ACPET Needs

Every student who requires assistance MUST complete a Relocation Request Form and return it to ACPET by the date specified on the form. The form is handed out at the student meeting and is then available online one day after the meeting. It can also be emailed to you after the meeting if you send a request to the designated ACPET inbox.

More Information

For more information on the process of relocation please visit the FAQs page here.

Visa Issues

Academic Records

Under the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) 2010, RTOs are required to have a student management data base that has the capacity to provide the regulatory body with AVETMISS compliant data. ACPET will request from the state regulatory body to supply ACPET with student data to assist us in relocating students to a suitable alternative course.

About the ACPET Tuition Assurance Scheme (TAS)

Overseas Student TAS (OSTAS)

In 1994, the ACPET Board established an Overseas Student Tuition Assurance Scheme (OSTAS). The scheme is in compliance with the requirements of the Commonwealth's Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000.  The purpose of the ESOS Act is to protect the interests of international students studying in Australia on student visas, by providing students whose college has closed a suitable alternative course.
The Scheme ensures that international students displaced from any course conducted by an ACPET member participating in OSTAS, due to the member's inability to continue the course, will be efficiently relocated with minimal disruption to studies in a comparable course with another ACPET member participating in OSTAS or other approved provider.

Australian Student TAS (ASTAS)

The ACPET ASTAS is designed to satisfy the requirements of:

• the Higher Education Support Act 2003 or Guidelines under the Act, and
• any or all tuition assurance requirements of State and Territory accrediting bodies generally.

The Scheme ensures that domestic students displaced from any course conducted by an ACPET member participating in ASTAS, due to the member's inability to continue the course, will be efficiently relocated with minimal disruption to studies in a comparable course with another ACPET member participating in ASTAS or other approved provider.

The Scheme covers a student if s/he is a citizen or permanent resident of Australia and enrolled as a full or part-time student in approved programs leading to an accredited award and has paid tuition fees in advance for a period of ten weeks or more and is not a student as defined in the ESOS Act 2000