I think the pricing structure, as such, sounds fine. IMHO the full fee should be payable by people expecting to gain an income from the course, with the discounts as described depending on their circumstances. If the course is too cheap, businesses will not attend as they will not send their staff on a course if they don't think it's worth anything.
As to the absolute prices, I think it might be a tad too high. Just going by the prices charged by a certain well-known international computer company, I think $250 per day + GST might be closer to the mark. However their courses are paced carefully so you would typically take 2 or three days to learn the ropes. You get lunch, morning, afternoon tea and course notes. You get a lecturer who makes sure you understand what you are doing. They also set pre-requisites and discourage people who don't have the basics for the course considered, by suggesting that they sit through the pre-requisite course. As to mixed classes of high payers vs low payers, that's not an issue. People who need this information for their business can frequently claim it against their training budget or their following year's income tax. In any class you always have attendees who are paying their own way or are subsidised by the government or their employer, or won it in a contest or whatever. No-one asks in class "who paid for your course". It's just not professional to do so. The price is between the attendee and the trainers only. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
