Part 2Further education bodies: insolvency etc

CHAPTER 4Further education bodies: special administration

Introduction to education administration

I115Overview of Chapter

1

This Chapter creates a procedure to be known as education administration.

2

The main features of an education administration are that—

a

it can be used where a further education body is unable to pay its debts or is likely to become unable to pay its debts,

b

the court appoints an education administrator on the application of the appropriate national authority, and

c

the education administrator manages the body's affairs, business and property with a view to avoiding or minimising disruption to the studies of existing students.

I216Objective of education administration

1

The objective of an education administration is to—

a

avoid or minimise disruption to the studies of the existing students of the further education body as a whole, and

b

ensure that it becomes unnecessary for the body to remain in education administration for that purpose.

2

The means by which the education administrator may achieve that objective include—

a

rescuing the further education body as a going concern,

b

transferring some or all of its undertaking to another body,

c

keeping it going until existing students have completed their studies, or

d

making arrangements for existing students to complete their studies at another institution.