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2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance 182. For the purposes of student support a first degree includes honours degrees and ordinary degrees (e.g. BA, BSc, LLB etc), first degrees in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science (e.g. MBChB or BM BS, BDS, BVetMed and BVSc), integrated Masters degrees (e.g. Meng, Mchem, Mphys, Mpharm) and Foundation Degrees. 183. A first degree course that began on or after 1 September 2009 is not a designated course where it leads to the award of a professional qualification and where a first degree (or equivalent qualification) would normally be required for entry to a course leading to the award of that professional qualification. First Degree Courses – Integrated Masters Degree 184. Integrated Masters are generally four year programmes of study in science, engineering and mathematics disciplines. They comprise an integrated programme of study including typically three years study at undergraduate level and one year postgraduate leading to a single integrated undergraduate qualification. Students enrol at the outset for the full course. For the purposes of student support ELQ policy, they are treated as equivalent to an honours degree. First Degree Courses – Cambridge Tripos 185. Courses at Cambridge University are divided into parts, each lasting one or two years. In some subjects there are two parts – Part I and Part II, while in others, especially in science and engineering there is an optional Part III. Students enrol at the outset for the full course. If they have successfully passed each part, they continue onto Part III. This three part degree is known as a Cambridge Tripos. On successful completion of all three parts students may be awarded an undergraduate Masters award such as MEng or MSci. Cambridge students must state that it is their intention to take Part III of the Tripos before completion of the third year of the course. As a whole, the four year course can attract student support. However, Part III is also offered as a separate one-year postgraduate course. Graduates of other universities who wish to take Part III of the Tripos at Cambridge would not be enrolled on the four year course but on the separate one year course which, as a stand-alone postgraduate course, does not qualify for student support. First Degree Courses – Foundation Degrees 186. Foundation degrees (Fds) are vocational higher education qualifications that feature work-based learning. Many Fds, particularly part-time ones, combine academic study with learning in the workplace. Fds were introduced to help address the skills gap at the associate professional and higher technician level. Fds are typically developed with substantial help from employers and other stakeholders such as professional bodies. Foundation degrees constitute 240 credits, and provide a defined progression route to some bachelor‟s degrees. Many foundation degree courses are automatically designated for support, provided they meet all parts of regulation 5(1). However, HEIs have been encouraged to be flexible in their provision of foundation degrees, and consequently a number may be organised so that days of learning in the workplace and days of study are Version 1.8 56
2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance combined in the same week. We do not want students on these courses to be penalised relative to those doing a similar amount of study but via a more traditional route. Foundation degree courses are usually 2 years in duration though some may take longer to complete. They may be full-time courses or sandwich courses. Some may be part-time in that (a) they do not contain enough full-time study per year on average to meet the definition of a sandwich course, and (b) they meet the definition of a part-time course at regulation 139. Some foundation degree courses feature learning in the workplace, which should be treated as full-time study in an institution for the purposes of the definition of a sandwich course and of determining levels of support. Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Courses (Schedule 2 – Paragraph 5) 187. Courses for the initial training of teachers taken as part of an employment based teacher training scheme are not designated courses. ITT Courses for students starting on or after 1 September 2010 188. Students commencing ITT courses on or after 1st September 2010 are eligible for either the „full-time‟ or „part-time‟ student support package. They are no longer defined in the Regulations according to the number of weeks of study plus teaching practice undertaken, and the definitions „Type 1‟, „Type 2‟ and „Type 3‟ ITT students do not apply. Students continuing on courses which commenced prior to 1 st September 2010 or students transferring to ITT courses on or after 1 st September 2010 from ITT courses which commenced prior to 1 st September 2010 are not affected by this change and continue to be eligible for the package of support they received in 2009/10. Full-time ITT courses Guidance on the definition of ITT courses starting on or after 1st September 2010 is as follows: 189. Full-time ITT courses that lead to a first degree are defined in the regulations as per all full-time non-ITT courses that lead to a first degree. Part-time ITT courses Full-time ITT courses that do not lead to a first degree (PGCE and equivalent courses) are courses of at least one academic year but no more than two academic years in length, where the periods of study in each academic year are at least 300 hours. A week of study can be considered as 30 hours. 190. ITT courses that are at least one academicyear in length and do not meet the minimum hours criteria as set out above for full-time nonfirst degree courses are considered to be part-time ITT courses if they meet the appropriate intensity of study conditions (i.e. for courses beginning before 1 September 2012 intensity of study is at least 50% of an equivalent full-time course over the duration of the part-time course or for courses beginning on or after 1 September 2012 intensity of study is at least 25% of an equivalent full-time Version 1.8 57
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