Education and Skills Act 2008

4Appropriate full-time education or trainingE+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)[F1Subsections (6) and (7) of section 15ZA of the Education Act 1996] (persons with learning difficulties) apply for the purposes of this section.