The Education (Fees and Awards) (Amendment No. 2) (England) Regulations 2000
These Regulations further amend the Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations 1997 to make it lawful for the Higher Education Funding Council for England and institutions funded by it to adopt rules of eligibility for awards to students training (otherwise than by way of a course leading to a first degree) to teach persons over compulsory school age which confine eligibility to persons having the connection with the United Kingdom specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 to 8 of the Schedule to those Regulations. Those persons are those who are settled in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971 and who have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands other than for the purpose of receiving full-time education for the period of three years before the relevant date specified in regulation 6B(3); refugees; nationals of member states of the European Community and their children who have been ordinarily resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) other than for the purpose of receiving full-time education for the period of three years; and EEA migrant workers, their spouses and children, who have been ordinarily resident in the EEA other than for the purpose of receiving full-time education for three years.