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UK Law Reference
All sections of Technical and Further Education Act 2017
2017 c. 19, s.16

Section 16 — Objective of education administration

This version in force from 2019-01-31

Snapshot: 2026-08-24

Reproduced from legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). Amendments made after 2026-08-24 may not be reflected — always check the official text .

(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.