The Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 1994

means the term in which assessment is completed;

has the meaning given by section 2 of the 1988 Act;

means city technology college and city college for the technology of the arts;

means General Certificate of Secondary Education;

means time during which pupils are normally required to attend lessons or engage in private study supervised by a teacher during school hours;

means— (a) any county or voluntary school;

means a middle school deemed to be a secondary school by virtue of the Education (Middle Schools) Regulations 1980;

means a special school which is not maintained by an authority nor a grant-maintained special school;

means a public examination which is for the time being prescribed by regulations made under section 106 of the 1988 Act;

means the school year immediately preceding the school year in which information provided to the Secretary of State under these Regulations is to be published by him;

means a class so designated by the authority (in the case of a school maintained by the authority), governing body (in the case of a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school) or proprietor (in the case of a non-maintained special school or an independent school), in which all or the majority of pupils have special educational needs;

has the meaning assigned to it by section 182(1) of the Education Act 1993;

means the Education Reform Act 1988;

means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956 and “authorised absence” shall be construed accordingly;