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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/block-grant-education-adjustments-wales-regulations-1987/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/359",
  "legislation_title": "The Block Grant (Education Adjustments) (Wales) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/block-grant-education-adjustments-wales-regulations-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "(1) The courses referred to in paragraph 1(b) are—\n(a) a post-graduate course or a course comparable to such a course;\n(b) a first degree course or a course comparable to such a course;\n(c) a course for the Diploma of Higher Education;\n(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;\n(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;\n(f) a course for the Certificate in Education;\n(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—\n(i) an Ordinary National Certificate, or\n(ii) the National Certificate or Diploma of the Business & Technician Education Council, or\n(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\n(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\n(v) a certificate or other qualification indicative of a comparable or higher level of attainment.\n(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—\n(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\n(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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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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