Regulation 4

(1)

In regulation 10(1)(d):—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (i) insert after the first word “a” the words “full-time”; and

(b)

in sub-paragraph (ii) substitute for the words “a week during the course” the words “for the purposes of study or teaching practice during each of at least 30 weeks during each year of the course”.

(2)

After regulation 10(2) insert the following paragraphs:

“(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) a full-time course is a course involving not less than 30 weeks’ full-time attendance for the purposes of study or teaching practice during each year of the course, a part-time course is a course involving periods of attendance for those purposes all of which are part-time, and a partly full-time and partly part-time course is any other course.

(4)

In paragraphs (1)(d)(ii) and (3) in relation to a course provided at the University of Oxford or Cambridge a reference to a period of 30 weeks shall have effect as a reference to a period of 25 weeks.”