The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1997

Courses of teacher training

22.—(1) This regulation shall apply—

(a) where the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under sub-paragraph (d)(ii) or (d)(iii) of regulation 10(1); or

(b) where it is a partly full-time and partly part-time course designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(iii),

unless the student is a member of a religious order, the course is a part-time course of teacher training designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(ii) and regulation 21 applies.

(2) Where the course is designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(ii), the payment in respect of maintenance under regulation 17(b) shall be a grant equal to three-quarters of the maintenance grant.

(3) Subject to the following paragraphs, where the course is designated under the said sub-paragraph (d)(iii), the said payment under regulation 17(b) shall be—

(a) in a year in which the student’s periods of study are all periods of full-time study or in which his aggregate period of full-time study is 30 weeks or more, the maintenance grant;

(b) in a year in which the student’s periods of study are all periods of part-time study, the sum of £325;

(c) in any other year, a sum equal to the aggregate of—

(i) the proportion of the maintenance grant which the student’s aggregate period of full-time study in the year, expressed in weeks, bears to 30, and

(ii) the proportion of £325 which the difference between the said aggregate period and 30 weeks bears to 30.

(4) In relation to a student employed full-time as a teacher, paragraph (3) shall have effect except in such a year as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) thereof, as if it provided that the said payment under regulation 17(b) should be £90.

(5) In relation to a student attending a course provided at the University of Oxford or Cambridge, sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph (3) shall have effect as if any reference therein to—

(a) a period of 30 weeks were a reference to a period of 25 weeks; and

(b) the proportion which a period expressed in weeks bears to 30 were a reference to the proportion which that period bears to 25.

(6) For the purposes of this regulation a day shall be reckoned as a seventh of a week.