# The Block Grant (Education Adjustments) (England) Regulations 1987, Paragraph 2


(1) The courses referred to in paragraph 1(b) are—
(a) a post-graduate course or a course comparable to such a course;
(b) a first degree course or a course comparable to such a course;
(c) a course for the Diploma of Higher Education;
(d) a course for the Higher National Diploma or Certificate (including Certificate of Supplementary Study), the Higher National Diploma or Certificate of the Business & Technician Education Council, or the Diploma in Management Studies;
(e) a course in preparation for a professional examination of a standard above that of the examinations for the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council or the examinations at advanced level for the General Certificate of Education;
(f) a course for the Certificate in Education;
(g) any other course in preparation for an examination of standard above that of the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council or the examination at the advanced level for the General Certificate of Education being a course which, disregarding exceptions made in individual cases or classes of case, may be taken only by students who have attained the age of 18 years and (subject to sub-paragraph (2)) hold:
(i) an Ordinary National Certificate, or
(ii) the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council, or
(iii) a General Certificate of Education recording that the student attained grade C or above in at least five subjects in the examinations at ordinary level, or
(iv) a General Certificate of Education recording that the student passed in at least 2 subjects in the examinations at advanced level or so passed in one subject and attained grade C in at least one other subject in the examinations at ordinary level, or
(v) a certificate or other qualification indicative of a comparable or higher level of attainment.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) any reference to a General Certificate of Education recording that a student attained grade C or above in a subject in the examinations at ordinary level shall be construed as including a reference:
(a) to such a certificate recording that he attained at least grade C at ordinary level in the examinations in that subject at advanced level; and
(b) to a Certificate of Secondary Education recording that he attained grade 1 in the examinations in that subject for that certificate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/347/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/block-grant-education-adjustments-england-regulations-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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