Paragraph 1

In this Schedule—

• “sandwich course” means a course consisting of alternate periods of full-time study in an institution 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; and for the purpose of calculating his attendance the course shall be treated as beginning with the first period of full-time study and ending with the last such period;

• “periods of experience” means, subject to sub-paragraph (2), periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with full-time study at the institution but at a place outside the institution, other than periods of—

  1. (a)

     unpaid service in a hospital or in a public health service laboratory;

  2. (b)

     unpaid service with a local authority acting in the exercise of their functions relating to health, welfare or the care of children and young persons or with a voluntary organisation providing facilities or carrying out activities of a like nature;

  3. (c)

     unpaid service in the prison or probation and aftercare service;

  4. (d)

     teaching practice;

  5. (e)

     unpaid research in an institution or, in the case of a student attending an overseas institution as a necessary part of his course, in an overseas institution;

  6. (f)

     such experience as aforesaid falling wholly within the terms at the institution in any year which do not comprise paid service or employment and either—

     1. (i)

        do not aggregate more than 6 weeks during that year; or

     2. (ii)

        fall within that year and another year and do not aggregate more than 12 weeks during the two years taken together, where that other year has not already been taken into account for the purposes hereof; or

  7. (g)

     unpaid service with—

     1. (i)

        a health authority (within the meaning of section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977^f1);

     2. (ii)

        a health board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978^f2; or

     3. (iii)

        a health and social services board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services Order (Northern Ireland) 1972^f3;

• “sandwich year” means, as respects any student, any year of a sandwich course which includes both periods of full-time study in the institution and periods of experience;

• “prescribed proportion” means the proportion which the number of weeks in the year for which the student in question attends the institution bears to 30, except that where that proportion is greater than the whole it means the whole;

• “modified proportion” means the proportion which the number of weeks in the year in which there are no periods of experience for the student in question bears to 52.

In the case of a student studying modern languages whose course includes periods of residence in a country whose language is a main language of the course, “periods of experience” means such periods of residence for which he is in gainful employment.

For the purposes of determining the prescribed proportion or the modified proportion where the number of weeks in question is not a whole number, a day shall be reckoned as a seventh of a week.

In the application of this Schedule to a student to whom Schedule 4 applies, references to Schedules 2 and 3 are to be construed as references to those Schedules as modified in accordance with Schedule 4.

In the application of this Schedule to a student attending a course provided at the University of Oxford or of Cambridge the provisions thereof shall have effect as if—