Amendment of the Student Fees (Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2011

4.  For regulation 4 substitute—

“Prescribed basic and higher amounts for certain final academic years of courses and academic years of courses of initial training of teachers

4.   For the purpose of section 28 of the 2004 Act the basic amount is £2,000 and the higher amount is £4,500 in respect of:

(a) the final academic year of a course where that academic year is normally required to be completed after less than 15 weeks’ attendance;

(b) a course of initial training of teachers(1) (including such a course leading to a first degree), an academic year during which any periods of full time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks.”

(1)

‘Initial training of teachers’ is training or education with the object of fitting persons, who are not teachers, to be teachers.