Designated postgraduate coursesE+W
2.—(1) In this Schedule (and for the purposes of section 22 of the 1998 Act), a course is a designated postgraduate course if it satisfies each of the following conditions— Condition 1 A first degree (or equivalent qualification) or higher is normally required for entry onto the course. Condition 2 The course is not a sandwich course. Condition 3 The duration of the course is at least one academic year. Condition 4 The course is provided by a publicly funded institution. Condition 5 At least half of the teaching and supervision which comprise the course is provided in the United Kingdom. Condition 6 The course is not a course for the initial training of teachers or a course taken as part of an employment based teacher training scheme (within the meaning given by regulation 7(2)).
(2) For the purposes of Condition 4—
(a)a course is provided by an institution if it provides the teaching and supervision which comprise the course, whether or not the institution has entered into an agreement with the student to provide the course;
(b)a university and any constituent college, or constituent institution in the nature of a college, of a university is regarded as a [F1publicly funded institution] if either the university or the constituent college or institution is a [F1publicly funded institution];
(c)an institution is not regarded as a [F1publicly funded institution] by reason only that it is a connected institution within the meaning of section 65(3B) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 which receives from the governing body of another institution the whole or part of any grants, loans or other payments provided to that other institution in accordance with section 65(3A) M1 of that Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 4 para. 2(2) substituted (30.7.2018) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/814), regs. 1(2), 17(a)
Marginal Citations
M11992 c.13; subsections (3A) and (3B) of section 65 were inserted by the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), section 27.