Regulation 4 Scope of Part II

This Part shall have effect as respects the charging of relevant fees in respect of students attending a full-time or sandwich course provided by—

and any reference in this Part to a student shall be construed accordingly.

This Part shall also have effect as respects the charging of relevant fees in respect of students attending a full-time or sandwich course of teacher training provided by an eligible institution.

In this Regulation—

• “eligible institution” means an institution eligible for funding under Part I of the Education Act 1994^f2, other than an institution referred to in paragraph (1);

• “full-time course” means a course normally involving not less than 15 hours attendance a week in term-time for the organised day-time study of a single subject or related subjects;

• “maintained institution” means an institution maintained by an education authority;

• “sandwich course” means a course consisting of alternate periods of full-time study in an establishment and periods of experience so organised that, taking the course as a whole, the student attends the periods of full-time study for an average of not less than 19 weeks in each year (the course being treated for the purpose of calculating attendance as beginning with the first period of full-time study and ending with the last such period) and, for the purposes hereof “periods of experience” means periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with full-time study at the establishment but at a place outside the establishment except that, in the case of a student studying modern languages whose course includes periods of residence in a country whose language is the main language of that course, it means such periods of residence for which he is in gainful employment;

• “university” includes a university college and a constituent college, school, or hall of a university.