full-time coursemeans a course normally involving not less than 15 hours attendance a week in term-time for the organised day-time study of a single subject or related subjects;
institution within the PCFC funding sectormeans any institution which falls to be treated as within that sector for the purposes of the Education Reform Act 1988 by virtue of section 132 of that Act (which establishes the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council);
maintained institutionmeans such an institution as is mentioned in Schedule 1;
periods of experiencemeans periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with full-time study at the establishment but at a place outside the establishment except that, in the case of a student studying modern languages whose course includes periods of residence in a country whose language is the main language of that course, it means such periods of residence for which he is in gainful employment;
sandwich coursemeans a course consisting of alternate periods of full-time study in an establishment and periods of experience so organised that, taking the course as a whole, the student attends the periods of full-time study for an average of not less than 19 weeks in each year (the course being treated for the purpose of calculating attendance as beginning with the first period of full-time study and ending with the last such period) and, for the purposes hereof “periods of experience” means periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with full-time study at the establishment but at a place outside the establishment except that, in the case of a student studying modern languages whose course includes periods of residence in a country whose language is the main language of that course, it means such periods of residence for which he is in gainful employment;
universityincludes a university college and a college, school, hall or other institution of a university”