Article 3 Loans for students

are attending courses of higher education which are of at least one academic year’s duration and either are at institutions receiving support from public funds or (being at other institutions) are designated for the purposes of this Article by or under regulations made by the Department; and

satisfy such other conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Department.

The Queen’s University of Belfast, the University of Ulster, a college of education in Northern Ireland within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986^f1 and institutions providing in Northern Ireland further education as defined in Article 100 of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989^f2;

universities and other institutions receiving grants under section 131 or 132 of the Education Reform Act 1988^f3, institutions maintained by local education authorities in England or Wales in exercise of their further and higher education functions, institutions designated by or under regulations made under section 218 of that Act as institutions substantially dependent for their maintenance on assistance from local education authorities and institutions receiving recurrent grants towards their costs under regulations made under section 100(1)(b) of the Education Act 1944^f4;

colleges of further education (as defined in section 80(1) of the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989^f5 or which are managed by a company by virtue of section 65(1) of that Act) and grant-aided colleges within the meaning of section 77(5) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980^f6.