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2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance There may be certain circumstances where a student wishes to enrol on a stand alone, 1 year „top up‟ course. Fee support should be calculated in accordance with regulation 21. The top up course should be treated as a 3 year course to allow these students to receive support to top up to an honours degree. PREVIOUS STUDY 159. The general principle is that eligible students can have tuition fee support for the standard length of their HE course plus an additional year if needed. The number of years support available for their current course will, however, generally be reduced if the student has studied on a previous HE course. Students who commence study in the 2013/14 academic year who have studied on a previous full-time, compressed degree, distance learning or initial teacher training course at a publicly funded UK or overseas institution where a qualification was not achieved, will have the number of years of support available to them reduced by the number of years of previous study. Previous part-time study which did not lead to a qualification and self-funded study at a private institution which did not lead to a qualification are not taken into account for previous study purposes. Students who commenced a new period of study prior to 2009/10 and do not have a UK Honours Degree only have the years of study on any previous full-time (or part-time ITT) courses at publicly funded UK institutions taken into account. Where previous study was undertaken but no qualification attained then regulation 21 should always be used to assess further entitlement for fee support and Maintenance Grant / Special Support Grant. The previous study rules apply to fee loans and the Maintenance Grant / Special Support Grant of £3,354 („2012 cohort‟ students) or £3,080 (all other current system students), and to the fee grant and £1,000 Higher Education grant and to any fee contribution loan taken out by old system students to cover the balance of their fee contribution. The rules do not apply to supplementary grants such as the Disabled Students' Allowances or Childcare Grants. Definition of a previous course 160. Regulation 12 sets out what is a previous course for the purposes of Part 4 of the Regulations (tuition fee support). Generally a course is a “previous course” if: (a) the current course began before 1 st September 2009, and paragraph (d) does not apply, any full-time higher education course, part-time course for the initial training of teachers or a specifically designated course which the student attended or, in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertook before the current course and which meets one or both of the conditions below: (i) the course was provided by an institution in the United Kingdom which was publicly funded for some or all of the Version 1.8 44
2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance academic years during which the student attended or undertook the course; or (ii) a scholarship, exhibition, bursary, grant, allowance or award of any description which was paid in respect of the student‟s attending or, in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertaking the course in respect of tuition fees was from public funds or funds attributable to public funds. (b)where the current course begins on or after 1 st September 2009, and paragraph (d) does not apply, a full-time or part-time higher education course, part-time course for the initial training of teachers or a specifically designated course, which the student attended or, in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertook before the current course, and where the student achieved a qualification. (c)Where the current course begins on or after 1 st September 2009, and paragraph (d) does not apply, a full-time higher education course, part-time course for the initial training of teachers or a specifically designated course which the student attended, or in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertook before the current course where the student studied but did not achieve a qualification and which meets one or both of the conditions below: (i) (ii) the course was provided by an institution whether or not in the United Kingdom which was publicly funded for some or all of the academic years during which the student attended or undertook the course; or any scholarship, exhibition, bursary, grant, allowance, or award of any description which was paid in respect of the student‟s attending or, in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertaking the course in respect of tuition fees was from public funds or funds attributable to public funds. (d) Where the current course begins on or after 1 st September 2009, and the students status as an eligible student has been transferred to the current course from a designated course which began before the 1 st September 2009, a full-time, higher education course, part-time course for the initial training of teachers or a specifically designated course, which the student attended or, in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertook before the current course and which meets one or both of the conditions below: (iii) (iv) the course was provided by an institution in the United Kingdom which was publicly funded for some or all of the academic years during which the student attended or undertook the course; or any scholarship, exhibition, bursary, grant, allowance or award of any description which was paid in respect of the student‟s attending or, in the case of a compressed degree course or a designated distance learning course, undertaking the course in respect of tuition fees was from public funds or funds attributable to public funds. Version 1.8 45
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