Paragraph 3

(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 a 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.