The Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2016
In accordance with section 26(2)(b)(i) of that Act, the Secretary of State is satisfied that the increase to the higher amounts is no greater than is required to maintain the value of that amount in real terms.
Citation, commencement and application
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 6th January 2017.
2.
These Regulations apply in relation to England.
Interpretation
3.
In these Regulations—
“the 2004 Act” means the Higher Education Act 2004;
“Erasmus year” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Student Support Regulations;
“overseas institution” means an institution other than one in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;
“sandwich course” has the meaning given in regulation 2(10) of the Student Support Regulations;
Meaning of “eligible institution”
4.
An eligible institution is an institution listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Application of the new higher amounts
5.
(1)
The higher amounts prescribed in regulations 6, 7 and 8 apply in relation to the qualifying fees payable by a qualifying person in connection with a qualifying course in respect of an academic year of that course, if that academic year begins on or after 1st August 2017.
(2)
The higher amounts do not apply if—
(a)
the qualifying course began before 1st September 2012;
(b)
the qualifying person is an end-on student; or
(c)
the qualifying person transfers from a qualifying course beginning before 1st September 2012 to a qualifying course beginning on or after 1st September 2012.
(3)
In this regulation—
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F2...
“end-on student” means a student who is undertaking—
(a)
a full-time honours degree course beginning on or after 1st September 2012 which, disregarding any intervening vacation, a student begins to attend immediately after ceasing to attend a full-time course which is mentioned in paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 2 to the Student Support Regulations or a full-time foundation degree or ordinary degree course, which started before 1st September 2012, having achieved a qualification;
(b)
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(c)
a part-time honours degree course beginning on or after 1st September 2012 which, disregarding any intervening vacation, a student begins immediately after ceasing to undertake a F4part-time course which is mentioned in paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 2 to the Student Support Regulations or a part-time foundation degree or ordinary degree course, which started before 1st September 2012, having achieved a qualification;
Prescribed higher amount from 1st August 2017
6.
(1)
The higher amount is—
(a)
£9,250 in respect of an eligible institution; or
(b)
£9,000 in respect of any other institution.
(2)
This regulation does not apply in relation to courses identified in either regulation 7 or 8.
Prescribed higher amount for specified courses from 1st August 2017
7.
(1)
In respect of the final academic year of a course if that academic year is normally required to be completed after less than 15 weeks’ attendance, the higher amount is—
(a)
£4,625 in respect of an eligible institution; or
(b)
£4,500 in respect of any other institution.
(2)
The higher amount is the amount specified in paragraph (3) in respect of an academic year of a sandwich course—
(a)
during which any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or
(b)
if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks.
(3)
The higher amount is—
(a)
£1,850 in respect of an eligible institution; or
(b)
£1,800 in respect of any other institution.
(4)
In respect of an Erasmus year, the higher amount is—
(a)
£1,385 in respect of an eligible institution; or
(b)
£1,350 in respect of any other institution.
(5)
The higher amount is the amount specified in paragraph (6) in respect of an academic year of a course provided in conjunction with an overseas institution which is not an Erasmus year—
(a)
during which any periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or
(b)
if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks.
(6)
The higher amount is—
(a)
£1,385 in respect of an eligible institution; or
(b)
£1,350 in respect of any other institution.
Prescribed higher amount for part-time courses from 1st August 2017
8.
The higher amount in respect of a part-time course is—
(a)
£6,935 in respect of an eligible institution; or
(b)
£6,750 in respect of any other institution.
F7SCHEDULEEligible Institutions
Abingdon and Witney College
Accrington and Rossendale College
Activate Learning
Anglia Ruskin University
AECC University College
Arts University Bournemouth, the
Askham Bryan College
Aston University
Aylesbury College
Bath Spa University
Birkbeck College
Birmingham City University
Bishop Burton College
Bishop Grosseteste University
Blackburn College
Blackpool and the Fylde College
BMC (Brooksby Melton College)
Bournemouth University
Bradford College
Brunel University London
Buckinghamshire New University
Calderdale College
Cambridge Regional College
Canterbury Christ Church University
Cardinal Newman College
Chichester College
City College Plymouth
City of Bristol College
City of Sunderland College
City, University of London
Cleveland College of Art and Design
Colchester Institute
Cornwall College
Courtauld Institute of Art
Coventry University
Croydon College
De Montfort University
DN Colleges Group
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College
East Kent College
East Riding College
Edge Hill University
Exeter College
Falmouth University
Fareham College
Farnborough College of Technology
Furness College
Gateshead College
Goldsmiths’ College
Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Hadlow College
Halesowen College
Harper Adams University
Hartpury College
Heart of Worcestershire College
Hereford College of Arts
Hertford Regional College
Highbury College Portsmouth
Holy Cross College
Hopwood Hall College
Hugh Baird College
Hull College
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
King’s College London
Kingston Maurward College
Kingston University
Kirklees College
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds City College
Leeds Arts University
Leeds Trinity University
Leicester College
Lincoln College
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool John Moores University
London Metropolitan University
London South Bank University
Loughborough College
Loughborough University
LTE Group
Macclesfield College
Manchester Metropolitan University
Middlesbrough College
Middlesex University
Milton Keynes College
Myerscough College
NCG
New College Durham
New College Stamford
Newbury College
Newham College of Further Education
Newman University
North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT)
North Hertfordshire College
Northampton College
Northumberland College
Norwich University of the Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Oaklands College
Oxford Brookes University
Petroc
Plumpton College
Plymouth College of Art
Preston College
Queen Mary University of London
Ravensbourne
Reaseheath College
RNN Group
Roehampton University
Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance
Royal College of Music
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
Royal Northern College of Music
Salford City College
Selby College
Sheffield Hallam University
Solent University
Solihull College and University Centre
South & City College Birmingham
South Devon College
Southport College
South Thames Colleges Group
Sparsholt College
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
St. George’s Hospital Medical School
Staffordshire University
Strode College
Sussex Coast College Hastings
Sussex Downs College
Teesside University
The City of Liverpool College
The Conservatoire for Dance and Drama
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
The London School of Economics and Political Science
The Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Agricultural University
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The Royal Veterinary College
The School of Oriental and African Studies
The University of Bath
The University of Birmingham
The University of Bolton
The University of Bradford
The University of Chichester
The University of Cumbria
The University of East Anglia
The University of Essex
The University of Huddersfield
The University of Hull
The University of Kent
The University of Lancaster
The University of Leeds
The University of Leicester
The University of Liverpool
The University of Manchester
The University of Reading
The University of Sheffield
The University of Surrey
The University of Warwick
The University of West London
The University of Westminster
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Truro and Penwith College
Tyne Coast College
University College Birmingham
University College London
University College of Osteopathy (The)
University for the Creative Arts
University of Bedfordshire
University of Brighton
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
University of Central Lancashire
University of Chester
University of Derby
University of Durham
University of East London
University of Exeter
University of Gloucestershire
University of Greenwich
University of Hertfordshire
University of Keele
University of Lincoln
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
University of Northampton, the
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
University of Nottingham, the
University of Oxford
University of Plymouth
University of Portsmouth
University of Salford, the
University of Southampton
University of St Mark & St John
University of Suffolk
University of Sunderland
University of Sussex
University of the Arts, London
University of the West of England, Bristol
University of Winchester
University of Wolverhampton
University of Worcester
University of York
Wakefield College
Warwickshire College
West Herts College
West Kent and Ashford College
Weston College of Further and Higher Education
Wigan and Leigh College
Wiltshire College
Writtle University College
York College
York St John University
Section 24 of the Higher Education Act 2004 (c.8) enables the Secretary of State to impose a condition on grants to the Higher Education Funding Council for England requiring it to impose a condition on financial support given to the governing body of a relevant institution. This condition would require the governing body to secure that the fees payable for a qualifying course by a qualifying student do not exceed either the prescribed basic amount, or, where an institution has an approved plan in force, the amount specified in that plan which is not to exceed the prescribed higher amount.
These Regulations prescribe that the higher amounts in respect of a relevant course for an academic year of that course which starts on or after 1st August 2017 are those listed in regulations 6, 7 and 8. Regulation 6 sets out the higher amounts which will ordinarily apply. For fees payable in respect of an academic year of courses specified in regulation 7, the higher amounts set out in that regulation will apply. Regulation 8 sets out the higher amounts which will apply in respect of part-time courses. The Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2016 will prescribe the higher amounts.
For each type of course two higher amounts are prescribed. An upper higher amount applies in the case of an “eligible institution”, which regulation 4 defines as an institution listed in the Schedule to the regulations. These are institutions which have achieved a “Meets Expectations” rating for the purposes of Year One of the Teaching Excellence Framework, a scheme operated by the Department for Education for rating the quality of teaching in higher education. A second higher amount, which reflects the amounts prescribed in the Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2010, will apply to any other institution that is subject to a condition imposed under section 24.
Regulation 5(2) provides that the amounts described above do not apply where the first academic year of a relevant course begins before 1st September 2012, where a student is an end-on student, or the student has transferred from a course that began before 1st September 2012 to a course that began on or after that date. In each of these cases the amounts set out in the Student Fees (Amounts) (England) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1932) will continue to apply.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or the voluntary sector.
The Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside the Regulations on www.legislation.gov.uk.