Education and Skills Act 2008

Valid from 28/06/2013

4 Appropriate full-time education or training E+W

(1) In this Part, “appropriate full-time education or training”, in relation to a person, means full-time education or training which is suitable for the person, having regard—

(a) to the person's age, ability and aptitude, and

(b) to any learning difficulty which the person may have,

and is provided at a school, at a college of further education, at an institution within the higher education sector or otherwise.

(2) Regulations may provide that a particular description of—

(a) education provided otherwise than at a school, or

(b) training,

is, or is not, to be treated as being “full-time” for the purposes of this section.

(3) [F1 Subsections (6) and (7) of section 15ZA of the Education Act 1996] (persons with learning difficulties) apply for the purposes of this section.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 4(3) substituted (1.4.2010) by The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1080), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 1 para. 75 (with art. 2(3))