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EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Introduction
The NSW Dental Technicians Registration Board is offering a scholarship to the student who achieves the highest ranking at the conclusion of the Advanced Diploma of Dental Prosthetics course.
The grant will be equivalent to 25% of the enrolment fee for the course, presently $6,625, and will be awarded twice annually at the completion of each intake.
Purpose of Scholarship
To encourage the pursuit of clinical and academic excellence by students undertaking the Advanced Diploma of Dental Prosthetics course conducted by NSW TAFE, by providing an incentive for them to excel in their vocational educational pursuits, thereby enhancing the standard of care they ultimately provide to the public.
Terms and Conditions
The recipients of the awards will be the students who, according to TAFE NSW, are assessed as the highest ranked graduates of their intakes, subject to those individuals having practised as a student and/or dental technician in New South Wales for a minimum of three years. In the event that the highest ranked student does not satisfy the eligibility criteria, the award will be granted to the next highest ranked eligible student.
Students, whose enrolment fees were paid by a sponsor, eg an employer, (other than a service company in which the applicant holds substantial ownership), will not be eligible for the scholarship, unless that payment was a loan that will be repaid to the employer.
The Board reserves the right to adjudicate on eligibility, based on the principle that the scholarship is deemed to offset some of the costs incurred personally by the student in meeting his or her educational expenses.
Applications
The Board invites applications for a scholarship from students who will undertake the final semester of their course during 2008. Mid-year intake students are required to submit their application to the Board by 31 May, whilst students expecting to graduate at the end of the year must lodge their application with the Board by 30 November.
On an application form available from the Board’s website, applicants must provide:
- evidence of their enrolment in the course;
- a statement verifying that their course enrolment fee was paid by themselves;
- a statement from their employer/s verifying three years practice in New South Wales; (this may include a transcript from TAFE in the Diploma of Dental Technology for two of those years), and
- their Australian Business Number (ABN), where applicable.
Taxation Implications
If the applicant is NOT registered for GST in the capacity for which the scholarship is offered, no GST will be payable on the amount granted. However, where an applicant is NOT registered for GST, he/she may still be subject to Pay As You Go withholding tax at the rate of 48.5% UNLESS he/she provides a completed, signed “Statement by Supplier” form indicating that the payment he/she is to receive is of a private or domestic nature. Statement by a Supplier forms are available on request from the Board’s office.
If the applicant is registered for GST in the capacity for which the scholarship is offered, then the obligations he/she enters into will be considered a taxable supply. This means that the recipient will have to pay GST on the scholarship monies he/she receives. Where this is the case, the scholarship will be increased to cover the GST liability. However, the Board will require such scholarship recipients to provide it with a tax invoice or enter into an agreement for the Board to issue a recipient created tax invoice. Provided the applicant has advised the Board of their ABN, there is no requirement for withholding tax to be deducted from their payment.
The Board’s contact details are:
| Postal address: | PO Box K599, Haymarket, NSW 1238 |
| Office address: | Level 6, 477 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 |
| Telephone: | 02 9219 0233 |
| Facsimile: | 02 9211 9318 |
| Email: | dtech@hprb.health.nsw.gov.au |
| Website: | www.dtechreg.health.nsw.gov.au |
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Scholarship Application |
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