The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019

Amendments to regulation 81

30.  In regulation 81 (eligible part-time students)—

(a) after paragraph (10) insert—

“(10A) Where—

(a) the Welsh Ministers determined that, by virtue of being a person with section 67 leave to remain or the child of such a person, a person (“A” in this paragraph) was an eligible part-time student in connection with an application for support for an earlier year of the present part-time course or an application for support in connection with a designated course, designated distance learning course or other designated part-time course from which A’s status as an eligible part-time student, eligible student or eligible distance learning student has been transferred to the present part-time course; and

(b) as at the day before the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support begins, the period for which a person with section 67 leave to remain is allowed to stay in the United Kingdom has expired and no further leave to remain has been granted and no appeal is pending (within the meaning of section 104 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002),

A’s status as an eligible part-time student terminates immediately before the first day of the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support.”;

(b) in paragraph (11), for “Paragraphs (9), (9A) and (10)” substitute “Paragraphs (9), (9A), (10) and (10A)”; and

(c) for paragraphs (28) and (29) substitute—

“(28) A course is specified for the purpose of paragraph (27) if—

(a) it is concerned with the study of the history, grammar and use of Welsh;

(b) the course is listed in the Higher Education Classification of Subjects in one of the following subject areas—

(i) subjects allied to medicine (CAH02);

(ii) biological and sport sciences (CAH03);

(iii) psychology (CAH04);

(iv) veterinary sciences (CAH05);

(v) agriculture, food and related studies (CAH06);

(vi) physical sciences (CAH07);

(vii) mathematical sciences (CAH09);

(viii) engineering and technology (CAH10);

(ix) computing (CAH11); or

(c) it is a course whose code and label under the Higher Education Classification of Subjects is listed in Schedule 7.

(29) In this regulation and in Schedule 7 “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(1).”

(1)

See https://www.hesa.ac.uk/innovation/hecos.