Our Commitment To You
We recognise that every family’s situation is unique. Our role is to provide an impartial, respectful, and thorough assessment process that supports both families and schools.
We are committed to delivering professional, confidential, and fair assessments that help schools make informed bursary decisions and ensure that educational opportunities remain available to deserving students.
If you have been invited to participate in an assessment, our team is here to assist you throughout the process and
Useful Information
An assisted place is a monetary award made by a school to the family of a student, usually in the form a percentage discount, on the student’s annual school fees.
Schools generally offer two broad types of assisted places:
Merit based scholarships – where the school invests in a student’s specific outstanding merit-based talent e.g. academic, sporting or other talent.
Means-tested scholarships or bursaries – are generally provided to families of a deserving student, who need fee assistance (a discount), so that they can send their child to the school they have selected. In this type place a financial assessment of the family forms part of the application process.
Bursary Assessment Services administers the financial assessment component of a means-tested scholarship or bursary for the school. The assessment is designed to provide the school with greater understanding of your families need based on your family’s income, expenditure, capital assets and liabilities.
Understanding a family’s need is vital for a school as funding for assisted places is often provided through donations or via a limited assistance budget, so it’s important that the school allocates the fund carefully and fairly.
Bursary Assessment Services provides a report to the school, which forms part of their assessment criteria for an assisted place e.g. academic review, interviews etc. The level of financial information shared with the school in the report will be detailed by your school in the application process. Please note that Assisted Place Assessments does not share the report with the family only the school.
As part of their application process, your chosen school will provide you with a link to our secure online means-testing application portal.
You complete the assessment online and upload requested supporting documentation. Your assessment can be saved so that you can return to it, if needed, prior to submitting.
If you are unsure about the information requested for the assessment, our team will be happy to assist and guide you.
Our team check and validate your assessment and will be in touch if there are any gaps, missing information or if additional information is needed.
Once the assessment is complete, we submit your report to the school and they have the final say on any awards. The school will contact you directly with their decision.
When the school has accepted our report, we will delete the financial information you have provided to us. We will only retain the report and recommendations provided to the school.