The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000

Regulations 17 and 24(2)

SCHEDULE 1 FEES

The fees referred to in regulation 17 are the aggregate of any fees payable by the student in respect of, or otherwise in connection with, his attendance on the course, including admission, tuition and graduation fees, but excluding fees payable—

(a) to an institution for awarding or accrediting any qualification where the institution does not provide the whole or part of the course and is not a publicly funded institution;

(b) for board and lodging;

(c) for field trips (including any tuition element of such fees);

(d) for attending any graduation or other ceremony; and

(e) which are prescribed by the Education (Student Fees) (Exceptions) (England) Regulations 1999(1);

subject to the following maxima:

(i) in the case of a course not covered by any other sub-paragraph of this paragraph, £1,050, but where the final year of the course is ordinarily required to be completed after less than 15 weeks' attendance, £520;

(ii) subject to sub-paragraph (iii), in respect of courses at institutions which are neither maintained nor assisted by grants paid out of public funds, £985;

(iii) in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham, four instalments of £615, in the case of a course at the Guildhall School of Music, three instalments of £1,260, in the case of a course at Heythrop College, three instalments of £620, and in the case of the Royal Agricultural College, three instalments of £575.

(iv) where during the year of a sandwich course any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £520;

(v) where during the year of a course of initial training for teachers referred to in regulation 10(1)(d) any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £520;

(vi) where during the year of an international course the periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £520;

(vii) in respect of the final year of a course referred to in paragraph (iii) which is ordinarily required to be completed before the first, the second or, in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham the third of the dates 1st January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st September which follow the beginning of that year, the first, the first two, or the first three of the instalments which would be payable respectively if this paragraph did not apply;

(viii) in respect of not more than one academic year of a course referred to in paragraphs (iv) or (vi) where the periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are 10 weeks or more, but in respect of that year and any previous such years the aggregate of any one or two periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks, or where the institution is the University of Oxford or Cambridge, 25 weeks, £520.

(1)

S.I. 1999/2265.