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SCHEDULEPRESCRIBED COURSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION

1.  All postgraduate courses excluding such courses preparing persons solely for a degree which is not a recognised award or solely for a professional examination at a higher level.

2.  All first degree courses excluding such courses preparing persons solely for a degree which is not a recognised award.

3.  All full-time and sandwich courses for a Diploma of Higher Education or the Higher National Diploma of the Business and Technology Education Council.

4.  All courses for the Higher National Certificate of the Business and Technology Education Council.

5.  All full-time and sandwich courses of more than one year’s duration and all part-time courses (including block release and day release courses) of at least 2 years' duration, being courses providing education at a higher level which are not prescribed courses of higher education by virtue of paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this Schedule but which prepare persons for an examination leading to an award of the kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b) of section 76 of the 1992 Act granted by an institution specified by the Privy Council in an Order made under subsection (1) of that section.

6.  All full-time courses of at least one year’s duration and all sandwich courses and part-time courses (including block release and day release courses) of at least two years' duration, being courses providing education at a higher level—

(a)for the initial or further training of youth and community workers, or

(b)for the further training of teachers including, notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Schedule, any such teacher training course which is a postgraduate course preparing persons solely for a professional examination at a higher level.