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Welcome 2025 Students: New Student Home Page Mid Year

Welcome 2025 Students

 

     

CONGRATULATIONS

You are now a part of the AFTRS Community and the AFTRS story.

Since it first opened its doors in 1973, AFTRS has played a major role in shaping the Australian film, television and radio landscape.

The school is an exciting place to learn, to be challenged and to grow your craft and creativity. You will learn, collaborate and network with each other, and build professional relationships that will continue into the future. 

Use your time here to experiment and learn from both your successes and failures as you continue your journey towards becoming Australia’s next generation of storytellers.

We look forward to seeing the boundless creativity you will show through your work whilst you are here and after you graduate. 

 

WELCOME NEW 2025 MID YEAR INTAKE STUDENTS 

 

2025 SEMESTER START DATE FOR NEW  STUDENTS

Course

Orientation Session

Semester Start Date

Master of Arts Screen: Business

Monday 28 July - 5.30pm 

ONLINE only 

Mon 28 July 2025

- first subject starts Tuesday 29 July 2025

 

If there are any changes in your enrolment status before Orientation, then please get in touch with the Student Centre: email studentinfo@aftrs.edu.au or call us directly on +61 2 9805 6444

For all 2025 Academic Dates, please view the Principal Dates document on the AFTRS Website.

Key Dates following Enrolment

Once you have completed enrolment, you will receive an email outlining key dates of required tasks and also when you will receive your Student Number 

Deadline

7 July 2025

Enrolment deadline. 

Once you have enrolled, you will be sent link to select your subjects for S2 2025.  Deadline to choose subjects will be 23 July 2025. 

To be sent by

16 July 2025

Student Numbers will be sent out to all enrolled students

We will email the details of your AFTRS Student Number to your personal email address. 

Once you get your AFTRS student number, you will follow the prompts to log into AFTRS Network. All Students must log in before Orientation 28 July 2025

Due by

18 July 2025

ID Photo required - email to idphoto@aftrs.edu.au (1MB jpg Head & Shoulders shot) 

USI number required - email to studentinfo@aftrs.edu.au 

Due

1 August 2025

If you are a domestic student and paying Upfront  payment will be raised once enrolled in subjects and due within 2 weeks of issue on Friday 1 August 2025.

If you are a domestic student, and selected FEE-HELP as your intended method of payment, and are eligible, you will receive an email from the Department of Education to your personal email address to apply for FEE-HELP through the government eCAF (electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form) online portal.   You must completed the eCAF submission before 1 August 2025 

Orientation Session Online 

Monday 28 July 2025

5.30pm - 7.30pm 

Via Zoom 

The orientation session is mandatory for all new students to introduce you to the course, the school and systems.   

This includes: 

  • Welcome and Introduction to AFTRS Charter 
  • Introduction to the MASB 
  • Introduction to Moodle 
  • Welcome from Student Centre: Available Support, AFTRS community, the Student Handbook
  • Introduction to Library 
  • Introduction to AFTRS Systems: General IT / Websites /Student Login/ Tech Help 
  • Learning @ AFTRS

If you are unable to attend or have any questions please reach out to the Student Centre

Subject Selection 

Due by 23 July 2025

Once you have completed enrolment in the course, you will need to review the MASB Course Guide and 2025 MASB Timetable to select the subjects you wish to enrol into for your first semester 2025.  Please note that it is referred to as Semester 2 in the timetable. 

The deadline for choosing your subjects is prior to start of semester with more information and the Survey Monkey link can be found here 

Please reach out to the Student Centre if you have any questions. 

Quicklinks

Acknowledgement

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Australian Film Television and Radio School would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners, the Bidjigal people and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land we meet, work, study and teach. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and extend our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from all nations of this land.