(1)A local education authority shall have power to bestow awards on persons over compulsory school age (including persons undergoing training as teachers) in respect of their attendance at courses to which this section applies and to make such payments as are payable in pursuance of such awards.
(2)Subject to subsection (3) of this section, this section applies to any course of full-time or part-time education (whether held in Great Britain or elsewhere) which is not a course of primary or secondary education, or (in the case of a course held outside Great Britain) is not a course of education comparable to primary or secondary education in Great Britain, and is not a course to which section 1 of this Act applies.
(3)Except in the case of a person undergoing training as a teacher who attends the course as such training, this section does not apply to any course provided by a university, college or other institution which is for the time being designated by or under regulations made for the purposes of this section as being a postgraduate course or comparable to a postgraduate course.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 2 substituted by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 19, Sch. 5
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1s. 2 modified by S.I. 1989/1135, art. 3(1)(a), Sch. 1
C2s. 2 extended and restricted by S.I. 1990/773, art. 2(1)(2)(3)