The Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 887 (W. 215)

Education, Wales

The Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Made

7 September 2017

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

11 September 2017

Coming into force

6 October 2017

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 49B(3), 49B(4) and 89(4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(1), make the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2017.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 6 October 2017.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“academic year” (“blwyddyn academaidd”) means any period commencing on or after 1 August and ending on or before 31 July.

Prescribed Activities

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 49B(2) and 49B(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, for the academic year immediately following the academic year in which the student ceased to be a student of the relevant institution, the prescribed activities are—

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

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

(c) any form of training undertaken by the student.

Alun Davies

Minister for Lifelong Learning and the Welsh Language, under authority of the Cabinet Secretary for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers.

7 September 2017

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

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

These Regulations make provision in respect of which activities of a student, that has left a further education institution in Wales, count as “destination information” for the purposes of section 49B(2) and 49B(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Regulation 3 sets out the activities and the time period in which they must occur.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

(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).