Students who are prevented from completing a course due to special circumstances may apply for a remission (removal) of debt.
If you withdraw from a course or fail a course, or cancel your program enrolment, after the Census Date (Friday of week 4 of a semester for the 12-week courses/ After 05:00 pm on Friday of the second week for the block mode courses/ The first day of the PostGrad intensive courses), or have paid the fees for your enrolment, you may apply to have your tuition fee payments refunded or transferred to a later semester for courses where the following conditions apply:
- circumstances outside your control made it impracticable for you to complete the course; and
- these circumstances did not make their full impact on you until on or after the census date in the course; and
- you had not had assessment results such that you would certainly have failed the course at the time the circumstances made their full impact.
For further information refer to Remission and Removal of Debt Procedure.
How to apply
A complete application for a remission (removal) of debt must be submitted within one calendar year of the withdrawal date, or where you have not withdrawn, within one calendar year of the end-date of the relevant teaching period. You must complete the Application for remission (removal) of debt in special circumstances form and lodge it with all required supporting documentation with Student Connect or via email to VN Assessment Support at assessment.support@rmit.edu.vn.
Application for remission (removal) of debt in special circumstances form (528KB, 4p)
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Assessment of applications
Applications for remission (removal) of debt in special circumstances are considered by authorised staff within the Academic Registrar's Group (ARG) office.
Outcome of applications
Possible outcomes of remission (removal) of debt application are a refund or re-credit of tuition fees. The Academic Registrar’s Group (ARG) office will notify you of the outcome within sixty (60) calendar days of receipt of the complete application.
Requesting a review of the decision
You have twenty-eight (28) calendar days from the receipt of the decision to request a review of the decision by writing to VN Assessment Support via email at assessment.support@rmit.edu.vn. The review outcome notification will be sent to your student’s email within twenty-eight (28) calendar days from the date you submit your review request.