The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

PART 1 Introductory

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 15th February 2024.

Extent and application

2.—(1) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

(2) Regulation 61 (amendment of the Higher Education (Fee Limit Condition) (England) Regulations 2017: removal of fee limits for postgraduate ITT courses leading to qualified teacher status) applies to English higher education providers(1).

(3) Otherwise these Regulations apply in relation to England only.

(4) The following provisions of these Regulations apply only in relation to the provision of support, and to fees and awards applicable, in relation to a new academic year, whether or not anything done under these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st August 2024—

(a) regulations 4, 16, 24, 31, 39, 47, 55 (victims of domestic abuse);

(b) regulations 7, 17, 27, 34, 44, 51 and 57 (children of persons granted indefinite leave to enter or remain as a victim of domestic violence or domestic abuse or as a bereaved partner);

(c) regulations 8, 14, 28, 35, 43, 50 and 58 (students settled in the United Kingdom);

(d) regulations 9(1)(a) to (g), (2)(a) to (g) and (3)(a) to (h), 21(a) to (h), 26(a) to (g), 33(a) to (g) and (i), 49(a) to (g) and (i) and 56(1)(a) to (g) and (2)(a) to (h) (termination of eligible student status);

(e) regulation 10 (loans for designated part-time courses);

(f) regulation 12 and the Schedule (substitution of amounts);

(g) regulations 15 and 41 (eligibility for home fee status and fee caps in certain circumstances where leave to remain expired);

(h) regulation 61 (removal of fee limits for postgraduate ITT courses leading to qualified teacher status).

(5) The following provisions of these Regulations apply in relation to the provision of support, and to fees and awards applicable, in relation to a new course, whether or not anything done under these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st August 2024—

(a) regulations 6 and 42 (qualified teacher learning and skills status);

(b) regulations 9(1)(h), (2)(h) and (3)(i), 26(h), 33(h) and (j), 49(h) and (j) and 56(1)(h) and (2)(i) (termination of eligible student status: long residence);

(c) regulations 36 and 52 (substitution of amounts).

(6) Regulations 11, 19, 29, 37, 45, 53 and 60 (British citizens of Chagossian descent) apply in relation to the provision of support, and to fees and awards applicable, in relation to a new academic year of a course which began on or after 1st August 2022, whether or not anything done under these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st August 2024.

(7) In this regulation—

“academic year” is the period of twelve months beginning with 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September of the calendar year in which the academic year of the course in question begins, according to whether the academic year of the course in question begins—

(a)

on or after 1st January and before 1st April,

(b)

on or after 1st April and before 1st July,

(c)

on or after 1st July and before 1st August, or

(d)

on or after 1st August and on or before 31st December;

“new academic year” means an academic year which begins on or after 1st August 2024;

“new course” means a course which begins on or after 1st August 2024.

(1)

See the definition of “English higher education provider” in section 83(1) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.