Eligible Programmes

Eligible Joint Honours Programmes

Many degree programmes cover more than one subject, such as the 'Joint Honours' programme.

Four possible pattern are recognised:

1. Single-subject;
2. Balanced two-subject combination;
3. Major/minor two-subject combination;
4. Balanced three-subject combination.

Your institution will report your programme to the Higher Education Statistics Agency according to the pattern that best matches it, and the match might not be exact. For example, if the second subject is a very small component, your programme will be reported as single-subject, and the test for eligibility is based on that subject.

The following joint honours programmes are eligible for the Science and Engineering Scheme:

• A balanced two-subject programme is eligible if one of the components is eligible, or if both are.
• A major/minor programme is eligible if the major component is eligible, or if both are.
• A balanced three-subject programme is eligible if two of the components are eligible, or if all three are.

You will need to ask your academic tutor which pattern is being used to describe your programme, and the JACS code of each component.

Broadly Based Subject Group Programmes

Some programmes are broadly-based within a subject group, and will have a 'generic JACS code' such as F000 for Physical Sciences or H000 for Engineering.

Your application for the scheme must be accompanied by an official letter from your institution certifying any of the following:

• at least half of the material covered by the programme is eligible;
• if either of these two generic codes is used for one or more components of a combination programme;

Unless the coding of other components already establishes eligibility.

Bachelor of Education Degree (BEd)

Integrated undergraduate programmes leading to Qualified Teacher Status usually last for four years and lead to the Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree.

Such programmes are normally one-half teacher training, and one-half subject content

One half teacher training is not eligible for the scheme.

One-half subject content. If the whole of the subject content is eligible then the programme is eligible. The subject content may lie within a single JACS Principal Subject that is eligible, or may be split across more than one.