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The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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These Regulations further amend the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009 No.373) (“the 2009 Regulations”). The 2009 Regulations provide for financial support for students taking designated higher education courses in respect of an academic year beginning on or after 1st September 2010.
These Regulations make minor policy and technical changes to the 2009 Regulations and these changes are set out in the paragraphs below. These Regulations also, by regulation 15 and the Schedule, set out the increased payment rates for fee loans, grants for fees and fee contribution loans for full-time courses and sandwich courses which apply from 1st September 2017.
Regulation 3 makes amendments to certain existing definitions and inserts some new definitions, to reflect changes relating to publicly funded institutions and private institutions in Wales, and the operation of the Erasmus scheme in Scotland.
Regulation 4 amends the 2009 Regulations by adding new definitions of regulated and non-regulated institutions in Wales.
Regulation 5 amends regulation 20 of the 2009 Regulations to enable students studying an Erasmus year in Scotland to access fee loans.
Regulations 6(a) to (d) amend regulation 25 of the 2009 Regulations to insert reference to the fee loans available for study at regulated and non-regulated institutions in Wales. Regulation 6(e) amends regulation 25 to specify the maximum fee loan available to students studying an Erasmus year in Scotland.
Regulation 7 amends regulation 109 of the 2009 Regulations to clarify that a student in the armed forces or an armed forces family member may still qualify for a fee loan if they are undertaking a distance learning course outside the UK. Regulations 8, 9, 10 and 12 make similar amendments in respect of disabled students’ allowance, part-time and master’s, etc. support for members of the armed forces and their family members undertaking distance learning courses.
Regulation 11 amends regulation 139 of the 2009 Regulations to clarify that a student in the armed forces or an armed forces family member may still qualify for disabled students’ allowance if they are undertaking certain postgraduate courses by distance learning course outside the UK.
Regulation 13 makes a technical amendment to Schedule 5 to the 2009 Regulations to replace references to the Office for National Statistics, which no longer publishes conversion tables from EU currencies into Pounds Sterling, with references to HMRC.
Regulation 14 amends Schedule 6 to the 2009 Regulations, which lists the Republic of Ireland institutions that have courses designated for student support.
An impact assessment has not been prepared in respect of this instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business, charities or voluntary bodies.
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