{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Part-time students – restrictions on support for graduates",
  "text": "(1) If an eligible student undertaking a part-time course has attained a first degree from an institution in the United Kingdom (a “graduate”) the student does not qualify for support under these Regulations other than a disabled student's grant unless the student falls within one of the Cases set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) The Cases are—\nCase 1\nThe first degree—\n(a) was not an honours degree, and\n(b) was awarded to the graduate on completion of the modules, examinations or other forms of assessment required for that first degree,\nand the graduate is undertaking the present course so as to obtain an honours degree on completion of the required modules, examinations or other forms of assessment (whether or not the graduate continues the course at the same institution from which the first degree was awarded).\nCase 2\nThe present course is a course for the initial training of teachers of no more than four years duration and the graduate is not a qualified teacher.\nCase 3\nThe present course leads to an honours degree and is—\n(a) concerned with the study of the history, grammar and use of Welsh,\n(b) a course whose code and label under the Higher Education Classification of Subjects are listed in Schedule 5A, or\n(c) listed in the Higher Education Classification of Subjects in one of the Common Aggregation Hierarchy groups in Column 1 of Table A1 except for those subjects whose code and label under the Higher Education Classification of Subjects are specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2.\nTable A1\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nCommon Aggregation Hierarchy groups\nCode and label of Excluded subjects\nSubjects allied to medicine (CAH02)\nBiological and sport sciences (CAH03)\nPsychology (CAH04)\nVeterinary sciences (CAH05)\nAgriculture, food and related studies (CAH06)\nPhysical sciences (CAH07)\n(100392) Applied science\n(100390) General science\n(100391) Natural sciences\nMathematical sciences (CAH09)\nEngineering and technology (CAH10)\nComputing (CAH11)\nCase 4\nRegulation 26 applies.\n(3) In Case 3, the “Common Aggregation Hierarchy” means version 1.3.3 of the Common Aggregation Hierarchy approved by the Higher Education Statistics Agency Data Landscape Steering Group and “the Higher Education Classification of Subjects” means the Higher Education Classification of Subjects maintained by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and the Higher Education Statistics Agency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(2) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/73), regs. 1(2), 45(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 25(3) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/73), regs. 1(2), 45(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:24:02.114980+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}