# The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007, Regulation 29


Insert after paragraph (18) of regulation 6, the following paragraphs —
“(19) For the purposes of this regulation and subject to the exceptions in paragraphs (21), (22) and (23) a “previous course” is any full-time higher education course or any part-time course for the initial training of teachers which the student began to attend or, in the case of a compressed degree course, undertake in the United Kingdom and which meets one or both of the conditions in paragraph (20).
(20) The conditions are—
(a) the course is provided by an institution in the United Kingdom which was publicly funded for some or all of the academic years during which the student took the course; or
(b) any scholarship, exhibition, bursary, grant, allowance or award of any description which was paid in respect of the student’s attendance on the course to defray fees was from public funds or funds attributable to public funds.
(21) A course which would otherwise be a previous course will not be treated as such if —
(a) the present course is a course for the initial training of teachers;
(b) the duration of the present course does not exceed two years (the duration of a part-time course being expressed as its full-time equivalent); and
(c) the student is not a qualified teacher.
(22) A course for the Certificate in Education which would otherwise be a previous course will not be treated as such if —
(a) the present course is a course for the degree (including an honours degree) of Bachelor of Education;
(b) the student transferred to the present course from the course for the Certificate in Education before the completion of that course or began the present course on completion of the course for the Certificate in Education.
(23) A course for the degree (other than an honours degree) of Bachelor of Education will not be treated as a previous course if —
(a) the present course is a course for the honours degree of Bachelor of Education;
(b) the student transferred to the present course from the course for the degree (other than an honours degree) of Bachelor of Education before the completion of that course or began the present course on completion of the course for the degree (other than an honours degree) of Bachelor of Education.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/2312/regulation/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/assembly-learning-grants-and-loans-higher-education-wales-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-29
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