The Education (Grant) Regulations 1990

PART II PAYMENT OF GRANTS

Special Schools

6.  The Secretary of State may pay grants to persons other than local education authorities by whom special schools are maintained or proposed to be maintained in respect of approved expenditure incurred by them for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision) of education in special schools.

Further and higher education institutions

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), this regulation applies to institutions which provide further education or higher education (or both) including institutions providing such education for persons who have learning difficulties.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation a person has a “learning difficulty” if–

(a) he has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of persons of his age; or

(b) he has a disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for persons of his age in such institutions as are mentioned in paragraph (1) or any class thereof,

but a person is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language (or form of the language) in which he is, or will be, taught is different from a language (or form of language) which has at any time been spoken in his home.

(3) This regulation does not apply to–

(a) any institution conducted for profit;

(b) any institution provided by a local education authority;

(c) any institution whose activities are eligible for funding by the Universities Funding Council except the Open University;

(d) any institution within the PCFC funding sector.

8.  The Secretary of State may pay grants to the governing bodies of institutions to which regulation 7 applies in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision) of further education or higher education (or both):

Provided that grant in respect of approved capital expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the governing body of Trinity College, Carmarthen, shall not exceed 85% of the approved expenditure.

Loans

9.  Where grant in respect of approved capital expenditure is paid to the governing body of Trinity College, Carmarthen, the Secretary of State may make a loan to that body of an amount not exceeding 15% of the approved capital expenditure to which the grant relates.

Courses of adult education

10.—(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants to any body mentioned in paragraph (2) in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them in providing tuition for the purposes of any course of adult education included in a programme approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes hereof.

(2) The bodies referred to in paragraph (1) are–

(a) any association having as its principal object, or one of those objects, the promotion throughout England and Wales of education for adults;

(b) any district committee of such an association.

(3) In the case of a district committee of the Workers' Educational Association, the power to pay grants under this regulation shall extend to approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them in connection with any such course as is referred to in paragraph (1).

Other educational services provided by national associations

11.  The Secretary of State may pay grants to any association referred to in regulation 10(2)(a) in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision) of educational services other than expenditure in providing, or in connection with the provision of, a course of adult education included in a programme approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of regulation 10.

Informal vocational, social, physical and recreational training

12.  The Secretary of State may pay grants to persons other than local education authorities in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision), whether as part of wider activities or not, of vocational, social, physical and recreational training provided (or to be provided) otherwise than in any educational institution and otherwise than for profit.

Training of youth leaders and community centre wardens

13.  The Secretary of State may pay grants to the governing body of the University of Durham and to any national youth organisation in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them in providing courses for the training of youth leaders and community centre wardens.

Learned Societies

14.—(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants to any body mentioned in paragraph (2) (being bodies whose object or main object is, in his opinion, the promotion of learning or research) in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purposes of any of their activities.

(2) The bodies referred to in paragraph (1) are–

(a) the body corporate constituted by Royal Charter and known at the date of these Regulations as the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philoso phical and Philological Studies;

(b) the body corporate constituted by Royal Charter and known at the date of these Regulations as the Royal Society of London for improving Natural Knowledge;

(c) the United States Educational Commission in the United Kingdom established by the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America, dated 22nd September 1948(1) (the Fulbright Commission).

Certain educational services and research

15.—(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants to persons other than local education authorities in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them–

(a) for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision), whether by them or any other person, of educational services of an administrative, advisory, informatory, organising or training character, or

(b) for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision) of education by any other person in (i) any school or (ii) any institution providing further education or higher education (or both).

(2) The Secretary of State may pay grants to persons other than local education authorities in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for the purposes of educational research.

Training abroad of teachers and others

16.—(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants to persons other than local education authorities in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them by way of payments to any person mentioned in paragraph (2) for the purpose of facilitating at a place outside the United Kingdom–

(a) that person’s training or further training with a view to his continuing to be employed in education whether in his existing or a different capacity;

(b) the provision of experience (whether or not within education) which is likely to benefit that person in the capacity in which he is employed, or

(c) the study by that person of matters connected with, or related to, education.

(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are–

(a) teachers;

(b) youth and community workers(2);

(c) education welfare officers;

(d) educational psychologists;

(e) local education authority inspectors;

(f) education advisers employed by such authorities; and

(g) persons employed by such authorities in the administration of the education service provided by them.

(1)

Cmd. 7527 (Treaty Series No.69 (1948) ). This paper is out of print. Photocopies can be obtained by HMSO from the British Library Lending Division (BLLD). Customers, unless already registered with BLLD, should order via HMSO (Photocopies), PO Box 276, London SW8 5DT, enclosing £2.50 per complete copy required.

(2)

The expression “youth and community worker” is defined in section 50(4) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 and regulation 3 of the Education (Training Grants) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1857).