The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1998

Regulations 17, 23(1) and 24(2)

SCHEDULE 1 FEES

The fees referred to in regulation 17 are—

(a) the aggregate of any fees for admission, registration or matriculation (including matriculation exemption), any sessional or tuition fees, any composition fee, any graduation fee and, in the case of a course referred to in paragraph (ii), any fee in respect of the validation of the course (in each case excluding any element thereof representing or attributable to any such fee as is mentioned in … sub-paragraphs (b) or (c), or to maintenance) subject to the following maxima:

(i) in the case of a course not covered by any other sub-paragraph of this paragraph, £1,000;

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(ii) subject to sub-paragraph (iii), in respect of courses at institutions which are neither maintained nor assisted by grants paid out of public funds, £935;

(iii) in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham, four instalments of £585, in the case of a course at the Guildhall School of Music, three instalments of £1,200, in the case of a course at Heythrop College, three instalments of £590, and in the case of the Royal Agricultural College, three instalments of £545.

(iv) in respect of any academic year of a sandwich course during which one or more periods of experience is undertaken but any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, … £500;

(v) in the case of a course of initial training for teachers designated under regulation 10(1)(d) involving periods of full-time study in aggregate less than 10 weeks' in the relevant year, £500;

(vi) in respect of any academic year of an international course where periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £500;

(vii) in respect of the final year of a course referred to in paragraph (i) which is ordinarily required to be completed after less than 15 weeks' attendance, £500;

(viii) in respect of the final year of a course referred to in paragraph (iii) which is ordinarily required to be completed before the first, the second or, in the case of a course at the University of Buckingham the third of the dates 1st January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st September which follow the beginning of that year, the first, the first two, or the first three of the instalments which would be payable respectively if this paragraph did not apply;

(ix) in respect of not more than one academic year of a course referred to in paragraphs (iv) or (vi) where the periods of full-time study at the institution are greater than 10 weeks, but in respect of that year and any previous such years the aggregate of any one or two periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks, or where the institution is the University of Oxford or Cambridge, 25 weeks, £500;

(b) three instalments of college fees or dues at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, and Oxford (excluding any element thereof representing or attributable to any such fee as is mentioned in the following sub-paragraph or to maintenance), or, if the final year of the course is ordinarily required to be completed before the first or second of the dates 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September which follow the beginning of that year, one or two instalments of those fees or dues respectively;

(c) any fees charged by an external body in respect of examinations or the validation of the course or otherwise charged by such a body whose requirements must (for the purposes of the course) be satisfied, or any fees attributable to fees so charged, but in the case of fees in respect of the validation of the course, only where the fees are charged by a body which does not have the power to award a degree or by the University of Buckingham.