further education definition
further education means that part of technical and further education which is not vocational education and training and which is not provided or offered by a university or autonomous college;
further education means education from Advanced Level and all studies above that including vocational training, degree and diploma programmes across all subject disciplines;
further education means full-time or part-time education for persons over compulsory school age;
More Definitions of further education
further education means all non-compulsory formal, non- formal and informal learning which serves to obtain a national qualification classified up to and including level 4 of the Malta Qualifications Framework, or a foreign qualification at a
further education means qualified to teach students in recognised schools who are normally 16 years of age and older and who are attending education and training settings outside the post-primary schooling but which are not part of the third-level system;
further education means those education programs that lead to the development of knowledge and skills that are not specific to any particular occupation and are not provided or offered by a university (other than in the TAFE division of a university) or an autonomous college;
further education means all formal education of persons above the compulsory school age generally up to ISCED level 4 or NQF level 5;
further education means, unless varied by the Scottish Ministers, any programme of learning, not being school education, provided for persons over school age, being a programme which:
further education means that part of technical and further education which is not vocational education and training within the meaning of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1990 and which is not provided by a university or autonomous college;
further education means business’ – reducing the number of FE colleges from 16 to six area-based colleges by the year 2007 and strengthening the primary focus on supporting economic development (DELNI, 2004a). • In WBL – ‘Success through skills’ – reconfiguring the WBL ‘Jobskills’ programme and reducing the number of contract holders from more than 90 to 25 in order to reposition WBL as a route into highly skilled employment, thus contributing to economic development (DELNI, 2006a). In addition, the English government has issued a consultation on reforming the FE system to support the ambitions set out by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2006), in particular, the structural and funding reforms required to move to a ‘demand-led’ system. This could have a profound effect on the structure and quality of the FE system and have major implications for the wider lifelong learning sector in Northern Ireland.