The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Part-time students – restrictions on support for graduates E+W

25.—(1) If an eligible student undertaking a part-time course has attained a first degree from an institution in the United Kingdom (a “graduate”) the student does not qualify for support under these Regulations other than a disabled student's grant unless the student falls within one of the Cases set out in paragraph (2).

(2) The Cases are—

Case 1

The first degree—

(a) was not an honours degree, and

(b) was awarded to the graduate on completion of the modules, examinations or other forms of assessment required for that first degree,

and the graduate is undertaking the present course so as to obtain an honours degree on completion of the required modules, examinations or other forms of assessment (whether or not the graduate continues the course at the same institution from which the first degree was awarded).

Case 2

The present course is a course for the initial training of teachers of no more than four years duration and the graduate is not a qualified teacher.

[F1 Case 3

The present course leads to an honours degree and is—

(a) concerned with the study of the history, grammar and use of Welsh,

(b) listed in the Higher Education Classification of Subjects in one of the following subject areas—

(i) subjects allied to medicine (CAH02);

(ii) biological and sport sciences (CAH03);

(iii) psychology (CAH04);

(iv) veterinary sciences (CAH05);

(v) agriculture, food and related studies (CAH06);

(vi) physical sciences (CAH07);

(vii) mathematical sciences (CAH09);

(viii) engineering and technology (CAH10);

(ix) computing (CAH11), or

(c) a course whose code and label under the Higher Education Classification of Subjects is listed in Schedule 5A.]

Case 4

Regulation 26 applies.

[F2 (3) In Case 3 and in Schedule 5A “the Higher Education Classification of Subjects” means the Higher Education Classification of Subjects maintained by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and the Higher Education Statistics Agency.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 25(2) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/235), regs. 1(3)(a), 44(a)

F2 Reg. 25(3) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/235), regs. 1(3)(a), 44(b)