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Hello, our Head of Department (Payroll) has just attended an HR course and was advised that full-time students are limited by law to a maximum of 16 working hours a week, on average.

Please can someone point me in the right direction so I can investigate this.

Many thanks, Sean

I know of no such restriction. The tax exemptions for scholarships require students to be in full-time education but that is defined as undertaking full-time courses, not by limiting the time they work outside of the courses.

Any such restriction, if it were in legislation, would be in the context of some employment or tax provision - it cannot be a restriction just for the sake of it. Could it be that some universities apply such a restriction?

There are restrictions on the working hours of children during and outside of term time, but they not bear any resemblance to this.

Does anyone else know anything that might explain this?

Could it be anything to do with EMA, Child Tax Credit or Child Benefit?