Part 6: Miscellaneous Section 114: Qualification in information technology: payment of tuition fees
This section amends section 88 and Schedule 5 to the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. The amendments create a statutory duty on the Secretary of State for Education to ensure that specified qualifications in making use of information technology are free of charge to people aged 19 and over who do not already have a relevant qualification. The qualifications or descriptions of qualification to which the duty applies are to be set out in secondary legislation. The level of attainment demonstrated by the qualification to which the duty applies must be the level that the Secretary of State considers is the minimum required by a person aged 19 or over to be able to operate effectively in day-to- day life.