The Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 1994

means a fees award or a maintenance award or both as the context may require;

includes post-graduate research otherwise than in the course of employment;

means a local education authority;

means an institution eligible for funding under Part I of the Education Act 1994, other than an institution referred to in paragraph (1);

means full-time employment or part-time employment which, in a normal week, involves a significant number of hours of work and “employed” shall be construed accordingly, and for the purposes hereof the references to employment include references to the holding of any office and to any occupation for gain;

means the area comprised by the member States of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time and, subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement, by the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden and, from such date as the EEA Council, established by Article 89 of the EEA Agreement, determines that that Agreement shall enter into force as regards the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Principality of Liechtenstein;

includes charges however described;

means an award in respect only of any fees payable by the student other than any element of those fees representing or attributable to charges for his maintenance;

means 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;

means an institution maintained by an education authority;

means any award other than a fees award;

means a person who is a national for the purposes of the Community Treaties of any member State of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;

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;

means a person who is recognised by Her Majesty’s Government as a refugee within the meaning of the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 as extended by the Protocol hereto which entered into force on 4th October 1967 and any reference to the child of a refugee includes a reference to a person adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings and a step-child;

means the aggregate of— in each case excluding any element thereof representing or attributable to such fees as are mentioned in paragraph (2).

means 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;

means the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;

means, in relation to a candidate for a fees award, the date of his application therefor, except that, where the maker of the awards is— it means 1st September, 1st January or 1st April closest to the beginning of the first term of the candidate’s intended course or, as the case may be, of the period for which he would undertake research.

includes a university college and a constituent college, school, or hall of a university.