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The Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (England) Regulations 2015

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Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1564

Education, England

The Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (England) Regulations 2015

Made

22nd July 2015

Laid before Parliament

23rd July 2015

Coming into force

1st September 2015

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 49B(3) and 89(4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(1).

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (England) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st September 2015.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to destination information which may be provided to institutions within the further education sector in England only.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Further and Higher Education Act 1992; and

“the information year” means the period for an educational institution or learning provider which starts with the first term to begin after July and ends before the first such term to begin after the following July, except in the case of a work-based learning provider where it means the period from 1st September to the next 31st August.

Prescribed Activities

3.—(1) The following activities in the relevant period are prescribed for the purposes of section 49B(3) of the Act—

(a)any form of education undertaken by the student;

(b)any form of employment undertaken by the student;

(c)any form of training undertaken by the student; and

(d)any combination of the activities at (a) to (c) undertaken by the student.

(2) The relevant period in paragraph (1) is the period from 1st October to the next 30th April immediately following the information year in which the person ceases to be a student of an institution within the further education sector.

Nick Gibb

Minister of State

Department for Education

22nd July 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 49B of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 enables the Secretary of State to share “destination information” with further education institutions in England.

These Regulations prescribe which activities of a former student after leaving a further education institution in England count for the purposes of “destination information”, under section 49B(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Regulation 3 lists those activities by type and sets the time period in which they occur.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

(1)

1992 c. 13. Section 49B was inserted by section 80 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26). Section 89(4) was amended by section 29 of, and paragraphs 6 and 11 of Schedule 1 to, the Further Education and Training Act 2007 (c. 25). For the definitions of ‘prescribed’ and ‘regulations’ see section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56).

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