Part 2: Further Education Bodies: Insolvency etc. Chapter 4: Further Education Bodies: Special Administration Section 24: General functions of education administrator
Section 24 provides that, where an education administration order is in force, the education administrator manages the further education body’s affairs, business and property. The governors are not automatically dismissed, but, on appointment, the education administrator takes over the management of the further education body. This is a key role of the education administrator, and the functions must be carried out for the purpose of achieving the special objective, if possible. In pursuing the special objective, the administrator must in particular take into account the needs of existing students with special educational needs.
	The education administrator must also, so far as it is consistent with the special objective, carry out the functions in a way that achieves the best result for the body’s creditors as a whole (subsection (3)). Where the further education body is a company, subsection (4) requires the education administrator to carry out their functions in a way that achieves the best result for the company’s creditors as a whole and, subject to that, the company’s members as a whole.