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What is classed as full time education?

  • 07-08-2018 9:52am
    #1
    danois
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    Just looking for Some information on maintenance. I know Legally it stops at 18 unless In full time education. I have rang the court and legal aid. No one seems to be able to tell me if a child who is starting an apprenticeship is classed as being in education? Surely if she will now have her own income then maintenance should stop?

    Has anyone any first hand experience of this? Also can I just stop paying at 18 or do I need to approach courts?

    Thanks a mill.


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  • #2
    Riskymove
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    For welfare purposes the following applies:
    http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Increase-for-a-Qualified-Child.aspx

    Extract
    The Department of Education & Skills and the Higher Education Authority consider a person to be in full-time education where s/he is attending, a course which awards 60 ECTS credits* per annum within the traditional academic year of September to May. The number of hours per week on the course can vary significantly and there are no rules regarding the number of contact hours a student must have. Where the college offering the course designates this as full-time, it will mean the course has a full-time work-load.

    Course of study/instruction

    A course of study is a full-time day course of study, instruction or training at an institution of education.
    A person is regarded as attending a course of study for the duration of the academic year (i.e. the period in which a course of study commences in one year and finishes in the next following year) and


    ....


    2.5 Courses excluded from the definition of full-time education

    The following courses are excluded from the definition of full-time education for the purposes of awarding the IQC:-
    courses provided by or on behalf of Solas or an Education and Training Board where an allowance is payable (unless it is a Youthreach course)
    courses which form part of a work experience programme
    courses which arise from employment
    courses which comprise in an academic year, a period of paid work experience, where such period of paid work experience is greater than the time spent receiving tuition or instruction at an institution of education


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