Harness is excited to announce Construction Skills Queensland (CSQ) funding is available for a range of courses 2024-2025. This funding comes via CSQ and is therefore only available to certain QLD-based individuals or companies in the building and construction industry that meet certain eligibility criteria.
CSQ subsidised training assists in building the workforce capacity of the building and construction industry through targeted skills investment. CSQ programs provide funding to eligible RTO’s to deliver building and construction qualifications and short courses to new entrants, existing workers and those currently under-employed or out of work in the building and construction industry.
2024-2025 sees Harness being able to support Safety and Short Courses, High Risk work licences in Greater Brisbane, Darling Downs Toowoomba and Central Queensland. We have been allocated funding for eligible workers in Civil Construction and the Building & Construction Industry sectors.
If you are seeking to apply for funding within this category, you need to meet eligibility
requirements as identified by CSQ. A key one is that you are an eligible worker.
CSQ Identifies this as substantially engaged in the following industry priorities:
If you are seeking to apply for funding within this category, you need to meet eligibility requirements as identified by CSQ. A key one is that you are an eligible worker. CSQ Identifies this as substantially engaged in the following industry priorities:
Our 2024 AND 2025 CSQ Subsidised Funding Website Page is currently being finalised. Please REGISTER INTEREST FOR CSQ FUNDING here and we will get back to you ASAP.
If you meet eligibility criteria (see below) such as being an eligible worker, your residency, prior training and working status, you can apply for CSQ financial support on a range of approved short courses
Select and apply for enrolment on the relevant courses that are listed on this page / in the attached CSQ Course Lists. Lists are based on either Civil or Building and by geographic location.
Funding is applied on your behalf, within 90 days of successfully completing your training, based on the information for eligibility information you have provided as being true and correct. In the unlikely event that you do not meet all the criteria, funding applications may be rejected.
Due to the funding application process, you will pay 100% of the course fee up front and, subject to eligibility, will be reimbursed the amount of subsidy available from CSQ.
An Eligible Participant for this Program
MUST BE:
MUST NOT BE:
EXCEPTIONS: –
An Eligible Participant for this Program
MUST BE:
MUST NOT BE:
We have subject matter experts on CSQ Funding and eligibility so please do call us on 1800 427 637
If you are employed, it is important to check that your current or a former employer has not funded the proposed training before applying as this would otherwise render you not eligible to apply.
CSQ will subsidise a maximum of 8 short courses in total across either building specific or civil specific (including major projects) or a combination of both during the program delivery period. This can be made up of a maximum three high risk work and/or three mobile plant units of competency.
A visa holder who has the right to work in Australia and has been employed as an eligible worker in the Queensland Building and Construction Industry for 6 months or more is eligible for the CSQ subsidy.
Harness is excited to announce Construction Skills Queensland (CSQ) funding is available for a range of courses 2023-2024. This funding comes via CSQ and is therefore only available to certain QLD-based individuals or companies in the building and construction industry that meet certain eligibility criteria.
CSQ subsidised training assists in building the workforce capacity of the building and construction industry through targeted skills investment. CSQ programs provide funding to eligible RTO’s to deliver building and construction qualifications and short courses to new entrants, existing workers and those currently under-employed or out of work in the building and construction industry. The programs Harness offer include both Short Courses and Higher Learning Skills.
CSQ is an independent, not-for-profit, industry-funded body supporting employers, workers, apprentices, trainees and career seekers in the building and construction industry.
The Building and Construction Industry Training Levy (the levy) is a statutory training levy established under the Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Act 1991 (Qld).
CSQ is funded by a statutory training levy established under the Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Act 1991. The levy is charged on all building and construction work performed in Queensland with a cost of $150,000 or more (excluding GST) at a rate of 0.1% of the cost of the project. The levy is collected by QLeave.
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