The Block Grant (Education Adjustments) (Wales) Regulations 1987

3.—(1) The courses referred to in paragraph 1(b) are—

(a) a post-graduate course or a course comparable to such a course;

(b) a first degree course or a course comparable to such a course;

(c) a course for the Diploma of Higher Education;

(d) a course for the Higher National Diploma or Certificate (including Certificate of Supplementary Study), the Higher National Diploma or Certificate of the Business & Technician Education Council, or the Diploma in Management Studies;

(e) a course in preparation for a professional examination of a standard above that of the examinations for the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council or the examinations at advanced level for the General Certificate of Education;

(f) a course for the Certificate in Education;

(g) any other course in preparation for an examination of a standard above that of the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council or the examination at the advanced level for the General Certificate of Education being a course which, disregarding exceptions made in individual cases or classes of case, may be taken only by students who have attained the age of 18 years and (subject to sub-paragraph (2)) hold—

(i) an Ordinary National Certificate, or

(ii) the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council, or

(iii) a General Certificate of Education recording that the student attained grade C or above in at least five subjects in the examinations at ordinary level, or

(iv) a General Certificate of Education recording that the student passed in at least 2 subjects in the examinations at advanced level or so passed in one subject and attained grade C in at least one other subject in the examinations at ordinary level, or

(v) a certificate or other qualification indicative of a comparable or higher level of attainment.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) any reference to a General Certificate of Education recording that a student attained grade C or above in a subject in the examinations at ordinary level shall be construed as including a reference—

(a) to such a certificate recording that he attained at least grade C at ordinary level in the examinations in that subject at advanced level, and

(b) to a Certificate of Secondary Education recording that he attained grade 1 in the examinations in that subject for that certificate.