Part 2: Further Education Bodies: Insolvency etc. Chapter 4: Further Education Bodies: Special Administration Section 16: Objective of education administration
Section 16 is at the heart of the special administration regime and sets out the overarching (or "special") objective for the education administration.
	The objective of an education administration is to avoid or minimise disruption to the studies of the existing students of the further education body as a whole, and to ensure that it becomes unnecessary for the body to remain in education administration for that purpose. This means that the education administrator’s primary focus is on the studies of existing students, in contrast to an ordinary administration where the administrator’s primary focus is on rescuing the company or obtaining a better result for the creditors as a whole.
	By existing students, we mean a person who: a) is a student at the college when the administration order is made, or b) has accepted a place on a course at the college when the administration order is made.
	This section also sets out the ways the education administrator could achieve the objective including rescuing the further education body as a going concern, transferring some or all of its undertakings to another body, keeping it going until existing students have completed their studies, or making arrangements for existing students to complete their studies at another institution. There may be other options available to the education administrator in a particular instance, and this subsection is not intended to limit the actions an education administrator might take to achieve the objective.