HEPPP Funding

The Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) provides funding to universities listed in Table A of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 to implement strategies that improve access to undergraduate courses for people from regional and remote Australia, low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds, and Indigenous persons. HEPPP also helps to improve the retention and completion rates of those students.

The objective of the HEPPP is to promote equality of opportunity in higher education by improving:

(a) outreach initiatives to widen and enable higher education aspiration and promote higher education to persons from a low socioeconomic background, persons from regional areas and remote areas, and Indigenous persons; and

(b) the extent to which persons from a low socioeconomic background, persons from regional areas and remote areas, and Indigenous persons access, participate, remain and succeed in higher education, and obtain higher education awards.

Legislatively, HEPPP grants may only be spent on activities that:

(a) benefit current and prospective domestic undergraduate students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, students from regional areas and remote areas and Indigenous students; and

(b) address the specific disadvantages faced by the provider’s students, and prospective students, from low socioeconomic backgrounds, regional areas and remote areas, and Indigenous populations.

HEPPP funding must not be spent on:

• infrastructure, including maintenance and construction of buildings, fixtures, roads and pathways;
• facilities, services or transport vehicles that are not principally for the use or benefit of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, regional and remote areas, or Indigenous students; and
• international or postgraduate students.

Applications for funding for projects in 2024 are CLOSED.

Inquiries regarding HEPPP at UNE can be made via email heppp@une.edu.au or phone Martha Saw on 6773 5368.