# The Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981, Paragraph 2


(1) The courses referred to in paragraph 1(b) are—
(a) a post-graduate course or a course comparable to such a course;
(b) a first degree course or a course comparable to such a course;
(c) a course for the Diploma of Higher Education;
(d) a course for the Higher National Diploma or Certificate (including certificate of supplementary study), the Higher Diploma or Certificate of the Technician Education Council, the Higher Diploma or Certificate of the Business Education Council or the Diploma in Management Studies;
(e) a course in preparation for a professional examination of a standard above that of the examinations for the Ordinary National Certificate or the examinations at advanced level for the General Certificate of Education.
(f) any other course in preparation for an examination of a standard above that of the examinations for the Ordinary National Certificate or the examinations at 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—
(i) an Ordinary National Certificate, or
(ii) a General Certificate of Education recording that the student attained grade `C' or above in at least 5 subjects in the examinations at ordinary level, or
(iii) a General Certificate of Education recording that the student passed in at least two 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
(iv) a certificate or other qualification indicative of a comparable or higher level of attainment.
(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—
(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
(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1086/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-regulations-1981/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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