The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2018

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011

16.  Before regulation 141, insert—

“PART 11A Fee support, grants and allowances for designated part-time courses

Interpretation of Part 11A

140A.— (1) In this Part, the current part-time course is treated as beginning before 1st September 2012 in relation to a student (“A”) where—

(a) A transfers to the current part-time course pursuant to regulation 139A on or after 1st September 2012 from a designated part-time course beginning before 1st September 2012; or

(b) the current part-time course is an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (g) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2.

(2) In this Part, the intensity of study is calculated as follows and expressed as a percentage—

where—

• PT is the number of modules, credits, credit points, points or other unit to be awarded to the eligible part-time student by the academic authority if the student successfully completes the academic year in connection with which that student is applying for support;

• FT is—

  (a)

  where the course is provided by or on behalf of the Open University, 120;

  (b)

  where the course is provided by or on behalf of any other institution, the number of modules, credits, credit points, points or other unit that a standard full-time student would be required to obtain in each academic year in order to complete the full-time equivalent within the period ordinarily required to complete that course.

(3) In paragraph (2)—

(a) the reference to the period ordinarily required to complete the full-time equivalent means—

(i) where the course is provided by or on behalf of the Open University, the period that a standard full-time student would require to complete the full-time equivalent if that student were awarded 120 credit points in each academic year;

(ii) where the course is provided by or on behalf of any other institution, the period in which a standard full-time student would complete the full-time equivalent;

(b) “standard full-time student” is a student who is to be taken—

(i) to have begun the full-time equivalent course on the same date as the eligible part-time student began the part-time course in question;

(ii) not to have been excused any part of the full-time equivalent course;

(iii) not to have repeated any part of the full-time equivalent course; and

(iv) not to be absent from the full-time equivalent course other than during vacations.

Availability of support to prisoners

140B.   An eligible part-time student who is a prisoner qualifies for support under this Part only—

(a) if the student is an eligible prisoner; or

(b) in respect of an academic year during which the student enters prison or is released from prison.”.