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2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................ 5 Gap year students .......................................................................................... 6 Policy ....................................................................................................................... 7 General exclusions......................................................................................... 7 NHS bursaries ................................................................................................ 8 Applicants who breach any obligation to repay any previous student loan or who have reached the age of 18 and have not ratified a previous student loan made after they have been assessed under the age of 18 .................... 8 Applicants who breach any obligations to repay any previous student loan after they have been assessed ...................................................................... 9 1998/99 starters ............................................................................................. 9 Ineligibility on grounds of unfitness to receive support .................................. 9 Devolution of student support to Wales ....................................................... 11 Personal eligibility ........................................................................................ 11 Students attending more than one course ................................................... 11 Time limit for applying for student support ................................................... 11 Documentation requirements ....................................................................... 12 Residence and other eligibility conditions .................................................... 13 Ordinary Residence ..................................................................................... 13 Residence wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education ..................................................................................................................... 13 Students who move to England from elsewhere in the UK and Islands in order to attend a course ............................................................................... 14 Temporary or occasional absences ............................................................. 14 Gap years ..................................................................................................... 14 Temporary employment outside of the United Kingdom and Islands .......... 15 Emigrants ..................................................................................................... 15 Children living in the UK (or the EEA or Switzerland as appropriate) whose parents are temporarily employed abroad ................................................... 15 Possible considerations when establishing temporary employment abroad16 Determining whether an applicant would have been ordinarily resident but for his temporary employment abroad ......................................................... 17 Schedule 1 Part 2 - Categories .................................................................... 18 Persons who are settled in the UK but not by virtue of having acquired a permanent right of residence in the UK (as defined in the Regulations) (Paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations) ........................... 18 Settled Status ............................................................................................... 19 British Citizen By Descent ............................................................................ 19 British Overseas Territories ......................................................................... 20 Gibraltar ....................................................................................................... 21 Persons who have a right of permanent residence in the UK (as defined in the Regulations) (Paragraph 3 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations) 22 Asylum seekers who have been granted Refugee status under the 1951 United Nations Convention, their spouses, civil partners, children or stepchildren (Paragraph 4 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations). ............ 23 Persons who have been informed by the Home Office that although they do not qualify as a refugee, they have been granted Humanitarian Protection (HP) in the UK, their spouse, civil partner, children or step-children (Paragraph 5 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations) ........................... 25 HP terms and conditions .............................................................................. 25 Workers, employed persons, self-employed persons and their family members (Paragraph 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations) ........... 27 Students who cease work before starting the course .................................. 31 Remuneration for work ................................................................................. 31 Effective and genuine/Marginal and ancillary employment ......................... 31 Family members of EEA migrant workers, EEA frontier workers, EEA frontier self-employed persons, EEA self-employed and Swiss employed Version 1.8 2
2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance persons, Swiss frontier employed persons, Swiss frontier self-employed persons or Swiss self-employed persons .................................................... 32 Family members of EEA migrant workers including children. ..................... 33 Children of EEA migrant workers may be eligible for support under either paragraph 6 or paragraph 7 of Schedule 1. „Parent‟ refers to someone who is legally responsible for a child and is defined as including a guardian and any other person having parental responsibility for a child - this includes a step-parent. .................................................................................................. 33 Paragraph 6 – Dependent direct descendants ............................................ 33 Paragraph 7 – Children of former EEA migrant workers ............................. 33 Migrant Worker coming from Gibraltar ......................................................... 33 Persons who are settled in the United Kingdom and have exercised a right of residence elsewhere (Paragraph 8 of Part 2 of Schedule 1) ................... 34 Persons who are settled in the UK and move to Gibraltar then return to UK before 1st day of 1st academic year .......................................................... 35 EC nationals and their family members (Paragraph 9 of Part 2 of Schedule 1) .................................................................................................................. 35 EC Nationals with a “genuine link” with the UK under Paragraph 10 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations ................................................................. 37 Children of Swiss Nationals (Paragraph 11 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations) ................................................................................................. 37 Children of Turkish Workers (Paragraph 12 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations) ................................................................................................. 38 EU Member States ....................................................................................... 38 General ........................................................................................................ 39 Eligibility for fee and living costs support and determination of standard entitlement .................................................................................................... 39 ELQs and previous study changes from academic year 2009/10 ............... 40 Integrated Masters ....................................................................................... 41 Medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, architecture, social work, courses which attract an NHS bursary and Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses ... 42 Postgraduate qualifications .......................................................................... 42 Holders of sub degrees eg Lower level qualifications such as HNCs, HNDs, Foundation degrees etc ............................................................................... 42 Ordinary to Honours ..................................................................................... 43 PREVIOUS STUDY ..................................................................................... 44 Definition of a previous course ..................................................................... 44 Years of previous study ............................................................................... 46 Exception for ITT courses ............................................................................ 46 Compelling Personal Reasons (CPR) – Current and Old System Students 47 Evidence of compelling personal reasons: for both “current” and “old” system students ........................................................................................... 47 Self-funded Years – „Current‟ and „Old‟ System Students ........................... 48 Standard entitlement of „old system‟ students who are continuing students48 Students who attend a full-time course on a part-time basis ....................... 48 Students repeating whole or part years of a full-time course on a part-time basis - living costs and fee support .............................................................. 49 TRANSFERRING STUDENTS .................................................................... 49 Criteria for assessing eligibility ..................................................................... 49 Transferring students – „old system‟ students ............................................. 50 Transferring students – „current system‟ students ....................................... 50 Eligibility for support for living costs ............................................................. 51 General ........................................................................................................ 51 Students aged 60 and over .......................................................................... 51 Other eligibility requirements ....................................................................... 52 Designated courses ..................................................................................... 53 General criteria for automatic designation of courses ................................. 53 Distance Learning ........................................................................................ 54 Postgraduate Disabled Students‟ Allowance ............................................... 54 Schedule 2 courses...................................................................................... 55 Version 1.8 3
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