The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011

Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year

138.—(1) In respect of courses beginning before 1st September 2012, where one of the events listed in paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a grant of fees in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part provided that—

(a) the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and

(b) a grant in respect of fees is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

(2) In respect of courses beginning before 1st September 2012, where one of the events listed in sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year—

(a) a student may qualify for a grant for books, travel and other expenditure or for disabled part-time students’ allowance (or both) in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part; and

(b) neither a grant for books, travel and other expenditure or disabled part-time students’ allowance is available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

(3) In respect of courses beginning on or after 1st September 2012, where one of the events listed in paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a fee loan in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part provided that—

(a) the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and

(b) a fee loan is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

(4) The events are—

(a) the student’s course becomes a designated part-time course;

(b) the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person granted humanitarian protection;

(c) a state accedes to the EU and the student is a national of that state or a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1) of a national of that state;

(d) the student becomes a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1) of an EU national;

(e) the state of which the student is a national accedes to the EU where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;

(f) the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

(g) the student becomes the child of a Turkish worker;

(h) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1; or

(i) the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.