Regulation 3 Full-time education or training

(1)

The following descriptions of education provided otherwise than at a school, or training, are to be treated as being “full-time” for the purposes of section 4 of the 2008 Act (appropriate full-time education or training)—

(a)

a study programme that is delivered to a person in at least 540 hours in any 12 month period;

(b)

a programme of activity that is delivered to a person for the purpose of enabling the person to participate in education or training in accordance with section 2(1) of the 2008 Act (duty to participate in education or training); and

(c)

education provided at home.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), a “study programme” is a programme of study developed by a college of further education, an institution within the higher education sector, or other training provider to meet the needs of an individual student, which may include activity leading to a qualification and other activity including work experience.