
2011 No. 885 (W.129)
EDUCATION, WALES
The Student Fees (Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2011
Made 21 March 2011
Coming into force 31 March 2011

These Regulations are made by the Welsh Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by sections 28(6) and 47(5) of the Higher Education Act 2004 and now exercisable by them.
These are the first regulations to be made under section 28(6) of that Act prescribing the basic amount and the higher amount for the purposes of that section.

In accordance with section 26(1) of that Act a draft of these Regulations was laid before and approved by a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.
Title, commencement and application
1 

(1) The title of these Regulations is the Student Fees (Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2011 and they come into force on 31 March 2011.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
Interpretation
2 
In these Regulations—
 “the 2004 Act” (“Deddf 2004”) means the Higher Education Act 2004;
 “overseas institution” (“sefydliad tramor”) means an institution other than one in Wales, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man;
 “sandwich course” (“cwrs rhyngosod”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(6) of the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2011.
Prescribed basic and higher amounts
3 
Subject to regulation 4, for the purpose of section 28 of the 2004 Act, the basic amount is prescribed as £4,000 and the higher amount is prescribed as £9,000.
Prescribed basic and higher amounts for specified courses
4 
For the purpose of section 28 of the 2004 Act the basic amount is prescribed as £2,000 and the higher amount is prescribed as £4,500 in the following cases:
(a) the final academic year of a course where that academic year is normally required to be completed after less than 15 weeks' attendance;
(b) in respect of a sandwich course, an academic year—
(i) during which any periods of full time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or
(ii) if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks;
(c) in respect of a course of initial training of teachers (including such a course leading to a first degree), an academic year during which any periods of full time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks;
(d) in respect of a course provided in conjunction with an overseas institution, an academic year—
(i) during which any periods of full time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or
(ii) if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full time study at the institution in the United Kingdom (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks.
Leighton Andrews
Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning, one of the Welsh Ministers
21 March 2011