Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1995, and come into force on the same day they do, 1st September 1996.

Provision is made for treating a person participating in any arrangements for training under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, in addition to arrangements under named programmes, as supporting himself out of his own earnings, (regulation 4).

Any person who is not treated as ordinarily resident in the area of any local education authority for the purposes of section 1 of the Education Act 1962 by virtue of the Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) Regulations 1996, will be treated as being ordinarily resident in the area in which the institution providing his course is located (regulation 5). Previously only certain categories of students fell to be treated in this way.

Provision has been made for the designation by the Secretary of State of full-time courses for the initial training of teachers which are not provided wholly by publicly funded institutions in the United Kingdom, or by such institutions in conjunction with certain other institutions in the United Kingdom, or wholly by those certain other institutions (regulation 6).

First degrees comparable to Bachelor of Education degrees are now conferred by some institutions under different names so provision has been made for them to be treated for the purposes of the Regulations as Bachelor of Education degrees (regulation 7 and 9).

Provision has been made for the bestowal of awards on the spouses of EEA migrant workers (regulation 8). In consequence the drafting of regulation 13 of the 1995 Regulations has been altered (regulation 8) and a definition of an EEA migrant worker provided (regulation 3).