Further and Higher Education Act 1992 : chapter 13.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
[1992], ©1992
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Credit: Further and Higher Education Act 1992 : chapter 13. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provision of further education in maintained schools. 1944 c, 31. 1980 c. 20. c. 13 Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (7) In exercising their functions under this section a local education authority shall have regard to any educational facilities provided by institutions within the higher education sector or the further education sector, and other bodies, which are provided for, or available for use by persons in, their area. (8) In exercising their functions under this section a local education authority shall also have regard to the requirements of persons over compulsory school age who have learning difficulties. (9) Subject to subsection (10) below, for the purposes of subsection (8) above a person has a “learning difficulty” if— (a) he has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of persons of his age; or (b) he has a disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided in pursuance of the duty under subsection (1) above for persons of his age. (10) A person is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language (or form of the language) in which he is, or will be, taught is different from a language (or form of a language) which has at any time been spoken in his home. (11) A local education authority may do anything which appears to them to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the exercise of their functions under this section.” Provision of further education in schools 12.1) At the end of section 9 of the Education Act 1944 (power of local authority to establish schools) there is added— (7) The powers conferred by subsection (1) of this section shall not extend to establishing a school to provide— (a) part-time education suitable to the requirements of persons of any age over compulsory school age; or (b) full-time education suitable to the requirements of persons who have attained the age of nineteen years’’. (2) In section 13 of the Education Act 1980 (requirement to publish proposal for alteration of voluntary school) after subsection (1) there is inserted— “(1A) The reference in subsection (1) above to a change in the character of a school does not include a change in character resulting only from persons beginning or ceasing to be provided with— (a) part-time education suitable to the requirements of persons of any age over compulsory school age; or