it is not an extended foundation degree course;

it consists of alternative periods of full-time study at CAFRE and periods of work placement; and

taking the course as a whole, the student attends the periods of full-time study for an average of not less than 18 weeks in each academic year.

in calculating the student’s attendance, the higher education course is to be treated as beginning with the first period of full-time study and ending with the last such period; and

where periods of full-time study and work placement alternate within any week of the higher education course, the days of full-time study are aggregated with each other and with any weeks of full-time study in determining the number of weeks of full-time study in each academic year.