Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Maximum amounts of grants

11.  The amount of grant for fees for which a student is eligible under this Part in respect of an academic year shall not exceed—

(a)in the case of a course undertaken at the Pontifical College, Maynooth, or at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland for which the student is in receipt of a transitional award, or in the case of a course not covered by any other paragraph, £1,025, but where the final year of the course if ordinarily required to be completed after less than 15 weeks' attendance, £510;

(b)in the case of a course at an institution which is neither maintained not assisted by recurrent grants out of public funds, £960;

(c)where during the academic year of a sandwich course any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £510;

(d)where during the academic year of a course for the initial training of teachers referred to in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £510;

(e)where during the academic year of a course provided in conjunction with an overseas institution the periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks, £510;

(f)in the case of a sandwich course or a course provided in conjunction with an overseas institution where the periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are 10 weeks or more, but in respect of the academic year and any previous academic years the aggregate of any one or two periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks, £510;

(g)subject to sub-paragraph (h), in the case of a course at a university or relevant institution of higher education in the Republic of Ireland, an amount specified by the Department in writing;

(h)in the case of a student who has been awarded a transitional award in respect of a course undertaken at the Pontifical College, Maynooth, or at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland—

(i)£855 in the case of a course which is not covered by any other sub-paragraph;

(ii)£1,770 in the case of a course a substantial component of which consists of work in a laboratory or workshop, or the pre-clinical elements of courses in medicine;

(iii)£3,985 in the case of the clinical training elements of courses in medicine.

(i)in the case of a full-time course at the Union Theological College, Belfast, the Edgehill College, Belfast, the Irish Baptist College, Belfast, or the Belfast Bible College, Belfast, the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Theology or the Diploma in Theology of Queen’s University, Belfast, a first and second instalment of £618 and a third instalment of £619.