The Higher Education (Basic Amount and Higher Amount) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 465

Education, England

The Higher Education (Basic Amount and Higher Amount) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Made

28th March 2018

Laid before Parliament

4th April 2018

Coming into force

25th April 2018

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 24(6) and 47 of the Higher Education Act 2004(1), makes the following Regulations.

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Higher Education (Basic Amount and Higher Amount) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and come into force on 25th April 2018.

(2) The amendments made by these Regulations 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 beginning on or after 1st August 2018.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to the amendments made by regulations 3(c)(ii) and 6(c)(ii).

(4) These Regulations apply in relation to England.

Amendments to the Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2016

2.  The Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2016(2) are amended as follows.

3.  In regulation 5(3)—

(a) omit the definition of “designated distance learning course”;

(b) omit the definition of “distance learning course”;

(c) in the definition of “end-on student”—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (b);

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “full-time distance learning” substitute “part-time”;

(d) in the definition of “transfer”—

(i) after the second “full-time course,” insert “or from”;

(ii) omit “or a designated distance learning course to another designated distance learning course”.

4.  For the Schedule substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendments to the Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2016

5.  The Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2016(3) are amended as follows.

6.  In regulation 5(3)—

(a) omit the definition of “designated distance learning course”;

(b) omit the definition of “distance learning course”;

(c) in the definition of “end-on student”—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (b);

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “full-time distance learning” substitute “part-time”;

(d) in the definition of “transfer”—

(i) after the second “full-time course,” insert “or from”;

(ii) omit “or a designated distance learning course to another designated distance learning course”.

7.  For the Schedule substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sam Gyimah

Minister of State

Department for Education

28th March 2018

Regulations 4 and 7

SCHEDULE

Regulation 4

“SCHEDULE Eligible 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”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1205) (“the Basic Amount Regulations”) and the Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1206) (“the Higher Amount Regulations”).

The principal amendments which these Regulations make are as follows.

Regulations 3 and 6 amend, respectively, regulation 5(3) of the Basic Amount Regulations and regulation 5(3) of the Higher Amount Regulations to remove references to “designated distance learning courses” and “distance learning courses” as there are no longer any students undertaking designated distance learning courses. Those amendments only have effect in respect of an academic year starting on or after 1st August 2018.

The amendments made by regulations 3 and 6 also correct an error in the definition of “end-on student” by substituting the incorrect references to “full-time distance learning” courses with correct references to “part-time” courses. Those amendments come into force on 25th April 2018.

Regulations 4 and 7 and the Schedule update the list of “eligible institutions” listed in the Schedule to both the Basic Amount Regulations and the Higher Amount Regulations. The institutions in question are those which have obtained a Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework award, which is operated by the Department for Education for rating the quality of teaching in higher education and assessed on an annual basis. Having obtained an award each eligible institution listed in the regulations is entitled to charge fees up to specified upper amounts as prescribed in the Basic or Higher Amount Regulations. The amendments made by these regulations update the list of eligible institutions to ensure that those entitled to charge the upper amount reflects those institutions which obtained a rating for the purposes of Year 2 (academic year 2017/18) of the Framework. Those amendments only have effect in respect of an academic year starting on or after 1st August 2018.

(1)

2004 c.8. Section 24(6) was amended by paragraph 26 of Schedule 4 to the Education Act 2005 (c.18) and paragraph 20(1) and (4) of Schedule 5 to the Education Act 2011 (c.21). Section 24(6) is repealed by paragraph 30(2) of Schedule 11 to the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c.29) but that repeal is not yet in force. Section 47 is amended by paragraph 30(3) of Schedule 11 to the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 but those amendments are not yet in force.

(2)

S.I. 2016/1205.

(3)

S.I. 2016/1206.