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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-amounts-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/11",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Finance) (Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-amounts-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend—\n(a) the Higher Education (Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”),\n(b) the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (“the 2017 Regulations”),\n(c) the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (“the 2018 Regulations”),\n(d) the Education (Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (“the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations”), and\n(e) the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (“the 2019 Regulations”).\nPart 1 of these Regulations provides for the coming into force and application of these Regulations.\nThe 2015 Regulations prescribe the maximum amount that higher education institutions in Wales with an approved fee and access plan in force (“regulated institutions”) can charge by way of tuition fees for full-time undergraduate courses. The 2015 Regulations also prescribe lower maximum amounts in respect of certain courses.\nPart 2 of these Regulations amends the 2015 Regulations to increase each prescribed maximum amount from the 2026/27 academic year.\nThe 2017 Regulations and the 2018 Regulations provide for financial support for eligible students taking designated undergraduate courses which begin before 1 August 2018, and on or after 1 August 2018, respectively.\nThe Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations provide for financial support for eligible students taking designated postgraduate doctoral degree courses which begin on or after 1 August 2018. The 2019 Regulations provide for financial support for eligible students taking designated postgraduate master’s degree courses which begin on or after 1 August 2019.\nParts 3, 4, 5 and 6 of these Regulations amend the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, respectively, to update various amounts specified in each of those Regulations.\nIn particular, in Part 3, regulations 9, 10, 11 and 21 amend the 2017 Regulations, and in Part 4, regulation 31 amends the 2018 Regulations, to increase the maximum amount of tuition fee support available from the 2026/27 academic year to students undertaking courses at—\n(a) regulated institutions, to correspond with the increase in the prescribed maximum amounts under the 2015 Regulations as a result of the amendments made by Part 2,\n(b) higher education institutions and other providers of higher education regulated elsewhere in the United Kingdom, to correspond with increases in the amounts that such institutions and providers can charge by way of tuition fees, and\n(c) private institutions in Wales and elsewhere in the United Kingdom.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained from the Tertiary Education Directorate, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/11/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:01.193317+00:00"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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