EduTrust
A new Private Education Act 2009 and Private Education Regulations 2009 was enacted in December 2009 and along with it the Council for Private Education (CPE) which also launched the EduTrust certification scheme to replace the CaseTrust certification scheme.
While the EduTrust certification scheme is voluntary as with the CaseTrust certification scheme, it is one of the prerequisites which private education institutions that enrol international students must meet to qualify for the issue of Student Passes, as stipulated by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) in which the Singapore campus must adhere to.
All JCU Singapore courses are registered with The Council for Private Education (Registration Number 200100786K) and our operations are governed by EduTrust. As part of our journey towards Excellence, we seek to achieve EduTrust Star. In 2008, we achieved the Singapore Quality Class for Private Education Organizations accreditation and in 2012 we successfully renewed our Singapore Quality Class certification.
Fee Protection Scheme
Further, the CPE requires all students to be covered under a Fee Protection Scheme and not just international students. Local students now can no longer opt out of the Fee Protection Scheme. JCU Singapore adopts the new Fee Protection Insurance Scheme and uses Lonpac Insurance as the provider of all policies taken out as part of the fee protection scheme. Please click here for details.
In addition, the new insurance scheme will protect all unconsumed fees including non-tuition fees. As such, current students, whether studying on a full time or part time basis will be informed of the amount of insurance they would need to purchase to protect their tuition fees by JCU Singapore where necessary. This amount would be based on 1% of all fees per year (subject to a minimum fee of $25.00). Students may also like to know that the insurance will protect the students against the following events:
1. Loss of fees paid in advance by the insured student due to insolvency or regulatory closure of the school.
2. Private Educator's failure to pay sum awarded by Singapore courts to the insured student.
3. Payment of S$10,000 for any one event and in the aggregate for the insured student’s accidental death or total permanent disability by accident caused solely and directly by accidental, visible and violent means (excluding any sickness, disease or medical disorder).
Students can check the status of their FPS insurance directly on the CPE website. To check your FPS status, visit this page.
Medical insurance
EduTrust also requires that the students must be covered under a medical insurance coverage for the students’ hospitalisation, surgery and treatment costs throughout their course duration.
Students should be aware of the coverage and benefits of being covered under the Student Group Hospitalisation and Surgical Insurance Scheme. Students should also view the details on the product summary and the terms and condition. Please click here to download the claim form for this insurance.
International students holding passes other than the Student’s Pass, and students who are Singapore citizens or permanent residents, who are already covered by their own medical insurance plans, can opt out of the medical insurance scheme.
However, they have to provide JCU Singapore a copy of their medical insurance policy/certificate which meets the following EduTrust stipulated requirements:
- annual limit not less than S$20,000.00 medical costs coverage per student;
- at least B2 ward stay(in government and restructured hospitals); and
- 24 hours coverage in Singapore and overseas (if student is involved in school-related activities).
For more details please visit the CPE website: http://www.cpe.gov.sg or contact the CPE Student Services at 6592 2108
Gazetted in October 2009, the Private Education Act provides for the establishment of the Council for Private Education (CPE) to oversee the new regulatory regime and promote best practices among private education institutions to raise standards in the private education sector.
CPE implemented two schemes - a mandatory Enhanced Registration Framework (ERF) and a voluntary quality assurance scheme called EduTrust. Under the Enhanced Registration Framework, legal requirements pertaining to courses, managers, teachers, premises and advertisements are stipulated in the Private Education Act.
The EduTrust certification scheme provides a trust mark of quality. Private education institutions need to achieve higher and more comprehensive standards in their corporate governance and administration ,academic processes, student protection and support services, and financial viability. The EduTrust certification scheme enables them to differentiate themselves as of a higher quality by achieving certification awards that correspond to their standards in these key areas of management and student services.
All JCU Singapore courses are registered with The Council for Private Education (Registration Number 200100786K) and our operations are governed by EduTrust.
For further information, please visit the Council for Private Education’s website at www.cpe.gov.sg.
By integrity and continual improvement, JCU Singapore is focused and committed in providing high quality education courses for its customers within the environmental, legal and regulatory framework of Singapore.
Our management system is based on the requirements of ISO 9001:2008.
We are also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and to being a responsible corporate citizen wherever we operate can be seen in our policy as set out:
Within the defined scope of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) management system, Management is committed:
1. to ensure that this policy is appropriate to the nature and scale of the organization’s OH&S risks, environmental impacts of its activities, products and services;
2. to prevent pollution, and injury and ill health, and continual improvement in EHS management and EHS performance;
3. to comply with applicable legal requirements and with other requirements to which the organization subscribes that relate to its environmental aspects and OH&S hazards;
4. to provide the framework for setting and reviewing EHS objectives;
5. to ensure that this policy is documented, implemented and maintained;
6. to ensure that this policy is communicated to all persons working under the control of the organization with the intent that they are made of their individual EHS obligations;
7. to ensure that this policy is available to all stakeholders; and
8. to ensure that this policy is reviewed at least once a year to ensure that it remains relevant and appropriate to the organization, and
9. to achieve the objective of minimum environment impacts, and zero incident of injury and ill health.
For many years, the Singapore campus has implemented programs to improve and benchmark itself against best practices, a commitment stemming from its continuous improvement StAR value.
Notably, when we became the first Australian university to be awarded Singapore Quality Class for Private Education Organisations (SQC-PEO) in 2008 and in 2012, we managed to successfully renew our Singapore Quality Class certification.