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Learning and Skills Act 2000

Part V - Miscellaneous and General

33.This Part covers various areas, such as:

  • the dissolution of the Further Education Funding Councils in England and Wales;

  • transfers of assets, rights and liabilities as part of the transition to the new regime;

  • the approval of qualifications for public funding purposes;

  • provision known as ‘individual learning accounts’;

  • provision related to proposals for the closure of inadequate sixth forms;

  • provision to enable LEAs to maintain 16 to 19 institutions;

  • the establishment of city academies;

  • the Connexions Service for young people and support for young people in Wales;

  • provision enabling newly qualified school teachers to meet the requirements of induction through teaching in the FE sector;

  • provision to amend FE and HE corporations’ powers, and to remove obstacles to their collaboration with schools, in respect of secondary education;

  • changes to the legislation governing the provision of sex education in schools.

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