Workers affected by COVID-19 will be able to upskill and gain a new qualification for significantly less money with Charles Sturt University offering fee reductions for fifteen courses.
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Under the federal government's Higher Education Relief Package, 14 graduate certificate courses and one university certificate course at CSU will be discounted by between 25 and 88 per cent for eligible workers.
Students must enrol after May 1 and complete their studies by the end of the year.
The 15 online courses include a university certificate in workforce essentials, and graduate certificates in cyber security, networking and systems administration, cloud computing and virtualisation, information systems security, industry computing, and applied data science.
Eight graduate certificates for education focusing on different areas are also included in the scheme.
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Deputy Vice Chancellor John Germov said the university hopes the discounted course fees would enable COVID-19 affected workers to upskill or retrain.
"We understand that given the unprecedented times we are experiencing, a number of workers may be facing uncertainty or financial difficulties," he said.
"We hope that by adopting this short-term initiative to reduce the course costs incurred by eligible students for 15 of our certificate courses, greater access to higher education in national priority areas will be made available to these workers."
A full list of the discounted certificate courses under the Higher Education Relief Package is available on the Charles Sturt website.
Digital journalists with The Border Mail.
Digital journalists with The Border Mail.
