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Notices of Amendments: 9th May 2008                     

2044

 

Education and Skills Bill, continued

 
 

4.    

Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

 

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption.

 

 

NOTICES WITHDRAWN

 

The following Notices have been withdrawn:

 

Secretary Ed Balls

 

124

 

Page  87,  line  36  [Clause  153],  leave out ‘of this Act’.

 

Vocational education

 

Philip Davies

 

NC15

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Section 8(3) of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) (compulsory school age) shall not

 

apply to any person who is a vocational student as set out in subsection (2).

 

(2)    

For the purposes of this section, a vocational student is a person who—

 

(a)    

has reached 15 years of age;

 

(b)    

has the written permission of their parent or guardian not to continue in

 

full-time education in school;

 

(c)    

has the written permission of the head teacher of the school at which they

 

are registered as a pupil not to continue in full-time education at school;

 

(d)    

has achieved level 5 at the third key stage in English, mathematics and

 

science; and

 

(e)    

has enrolled in a full-time vocational training course.’.

 


 
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