Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE) ACT 1976 No. 131, 1976 - SECT 10

10. (1) For the purposes of this section, the Minister may approve, in
connexion with the provision of technical and further education in a State,
programs, to be carried out in the year 1977, for each or any of the following
purposes:-

   (a)  curriculum development;

   (b)  the assessment of community needs for technical and further education;

   (c)  the development of techniques for enabling a student to control the
        pace at which he makes progress in a course of study;

   (d)  the publicizing of technical and further education;

   (e)  the provision of training that is preparatory to, or supplementary to,
        a course of technical and further education;

   (f)  the provision of counselling services at institutions of technical and
        further education;

   (g)  the provision, or improvement, of external study facilities;

   (h)  the provision in an institution providing technical and further
        education, for persons who are undertaking full-time primary or
        secondary education, of programs designed to introduce those persons
        to technical and further education;

        (i)    the taking of measures to increase the scope of courses of
               technical and further education;

   (j)  the taking of measures to improve safety, health and welfare at
        institutions providing technical and further education;

   (k)  the taking of measures to improve the planning of major building
        projects;

   (l)  the accreditation of technical and further education courses;

   (m)  the improvement of educational materials and resources; and

   (n)  the provision of assistance towards the operating costs of student
        residences.

(2) The Minister may revoke or vary any approval given under sub-section (1).

(3) The Minister may authorize the payment to a State under this section, by
way of financial assistance to the State in respect of programs approved under
sub-section (1), of such amounts as he determines.

(4) The Minister shall not authorize payments to a State under this section
that exceed, in the aggregate, the amount specified in Column 2 of Schedule 5
in relation to the State.