Regulation 4 Prescribed description of a qualifying course

The description of a qualifying course which is prescribed for the purposes of section 24 of the Act is a course which subject to paragraph (3) is a designated course within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Student Support Regulations on the first day of an academic year which begins during the grant period and is provided by an institution in England.

For the purposes of paragraph (1) the reference to an institution in England means an institution whose activities are carried on in England.

A course is not a qualifying course if at the time the qualifying person received an offer of a place on that course the institution providing it was not publicly funded.