These Regulations amend the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (“the principal Regulations”). Regulation 5(2) of the principal Regulations is amended so that a sandwich course is a designated course for the purposes of regulation 4(2) of those Regulations if a student undertaking that course is required to attend periods of full-time study for an average of at least 18 (instead of 19) weeks in each year (regulation 3(a)). Only students undertaking designated courses are eligible for student loans.

A new paragraph is inserted in regulation 5 of the principal Regulations to provide that where periods of full-time study and work experience occur within any week of a sandwich course, the days of full-time study shall be aggregated with any weeks of full-time study in determining the number of weeks of full-time study in each year (regulation 3(b)).