{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-no-3-regulations-2018/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/472",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-no-3-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011",
  "text": "Before regulation 141, insert—\n“PART 11A\nFee support, grants and allowances for designated part-time courses\nInterpretation of Part 11A\n140A. (1) In this Part, the current part-time course is treated as beginning before 1st September 2012 in relation to a student (“A”) where—\n(a) A transfers to the current part-time course pursuant to regulation 139A on or after 1st September 2012 from a designated part-time course beginning before 1st September 2012; or\n(b) the current part-time course is an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (g) of the definition of “end-on course” in regulation 2.\n(2) In this Part, the intensity of study is calculated as follows and expressed as a percentage—\n( PT / FT )×100 where—\nPT is the number of modules, credits, credit points, points or other unit to be awarded to the eligible part-time student by the academic authority if the student successfully completes the academic year in connection with which that student is applying for support;\nFT is—\n(a) where the course is provided by or on behalf of the Open University, 120;\n(b) where the course is provided by or on behalf of any other institution, the number of modules, credits, credit points, points or other unit that a standard full-time student would be required to obtain in each academic year in order to complete the full-time equivalent within the period ordinarily required to complete that course.\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) the reference to the period ordinarily required to complete the full-time equivalent means—\n(i) where the course is provided by or on behalf of the Open University, the period that a standard full-time student would require to complete the full-time equivalent if that student were awarded 120 credit points in each academic year;\n(ii) where the course is provided by or on behalf of any other institution, the period in which a standard full-time student would complete the full-time equivalent;\n(b) “standard full-time student” is a student who is to be taken—\n(i) to have begun the full-time equivalent course on the same date as the eligible part-time student began the part-time course in question;\n(ii) not to have been excused any part of the full-time equivalent course;\n(iii) not to have repeated any part of the full-time equivalent course; and\n(iv) not to be absent from the full-time equivalent course other than during vacations.\nAvailability of support to prisoners\n140B. An eligible part-time student who is a prisoner qualifies for support under this Part only—\n(a) if the student is an eligible prisoner; or\n(b) in respect of an academic year during which the student enters prison or is released from prison.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/472/regulation/16",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}