The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011

CHAPTER 2 E+W [F1 Availability of fee loans]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 4 Ch. 2 heading substituted (26.11.2020) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(d)

Current system students E+W

14.  A current system student (“A”) qualifies for a fee loan in respect of the fees payable by A in connection with A's attendance on or undertaking of a designated course in accordance with Chapter 3 of this Part.

Old system students E+W

F2 15.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2 Reg. 15 omitted (26.11.2020) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(e)

Students becoming eligible in the course of an academic year E+W

[F3 16.— (1) Where—

(a) a course designation event which results in a student’s course becoming a designated course occurs in the course of an academic year;

(b) a protected category event which results in a student becoming an eligible student occurs—

(i) in the course of the first academic year of a course; and

(ii) on or before the course start date; or

(c) an in-year qualifying event which results in a student becoming an eligible student occurs within the first three months of an academic year,

the student may qualify for a fee loan in accordance with this Part in respect of that academic year.

(2) But a fee loan is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the event in question occurs.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Reg. 16 substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74), regs. 1, 15(1)

Events E+W

F4 17.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F4 Reg. 17 omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74), regs. 1, 16

Students to be treated as in attendance on a course E+W

18.—(1) A student to whom this regulation applies is treated as if the student were in attendance on the designated course for the purpose of qualifying for [F5 a fee loan].

(2) This regulation applies to—

(a) [F6 a [F7 compressed degree student]]; or

(b) a disabled student who—

(i) is not [F6 a [F8 compressed degree student]]; and

(ii) is undertaking a designated course F9 ... in the United Kingdom but is not in attendance because the student is unable to attend for a reason which relates to the student's disability.

Textual Amendments

F5 Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (26.11.2020) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(g)

F6 Words in reg. 18 substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/142), regs. 1(1), 9

F7 Words in reg. 18(2)(a) substituted (23.12.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 17(1)(a)

F8 Words in reg. 18(2)(b)(i) substituted (23.12.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 17(1)(b)

F9 Words in reg. 18(2)(b)(ii) omitted (1.8.2013) by virtue of The Education (Student Support and European University Institute) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1728), regs. 1(3), 6