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2013/14 HE Student Finance
Assessing Eligibility Guidance
Years of previous study
161. Once it has been determined that the student has been on a
previous course, paragraphs (7) to (12) of Regulation 12 set out
which years of that previous course count as previous study for the
purposes of regulations 21 and 29.
The general rules are:
Exception for ITT courses
all academic years that the student completed on the previous
course are included; and
an academic year that the student started but did not complete or
began part way through the year is treated as one academic year
(regulation 12 (7)).
Despite these general rules
where a student who started their current course before 1 st
September 2009 did not qualify for fee support for an academic
year of the previous course (the „relevant year‟) other than as a
result of the relevant year being a bursary or Erasmus year and he
qualified for fee support for some but not all of the academic years
of the previous course, the relevant year is not to be treated as a
year spent on the previous course (regulation 12(8) of the
Regulations);
where the student repeated a year of the previous course for
compelling personal reasons, that year is not to be treated as a
year spent on a previous course(regulation 12(9));
where the student qualified for fee support for an academic year
of the previous course (the „relevant year‟) because he failed to
complete a previous course for compelling personal reasons, the
relevant year is not to be treated as a year spent on a previous
course (regulation 12(9));
where the student transfers from one course (first course) to
another before completing the academic year from which he is
transferring, the time spent on the first course during that academic
year is not counted as a year spent on a previous course
(regulation 12(10));
where the student undertook a previous course but was not in
attendance because of a reason relating to his disability, the
relevant year is only to be treated as a year spent on the previous
course if it began on or after 1 st September 2006 (regulation
12(11)).
162. Students who intend to take a full-time course of initial teacher
training (ITT) of not more than two years (or a part time course the
duration of which is not more than four years) are exempt from the
previous study rules for fee and Maintenance Grant support unless
they are already qualified teachers. For Part time ITT courses
starting on or after 1 st September 2010 and before 1 st September
2012, the minimum intensity of study required is 50% of an
equivalent full time course for the duration of the course; for courses
starting on or after 1 st September 2012, the minimum intensity of
study is 25% of an equivalent full time course for each year if the
course and for the duration of the course.
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