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Education and Skills Bill

I thank all noble Lords who have contributed. We are perhaps straying into the area of wanting to clarify exactly what we mean by ““guided””, not just ““guided learning””. I understood the Minister to mean that if a tutor, lecturer or teacher asked a young person to go away and do or read something, it could be regarded as ““guided””—in which case private study, as long as it was sufficiently guided under the terms which the Minister used, could be regarded as ““guided learning””. The example of music students springs to mind. They may spend one or two hours a week with their teacher but they spend hundreds of hours a week practising. I suppose that if the tutor says, ““These are the scales you have to practise; these are the pieces that I would like you to learn””, and the student does so, then that could be described as ““guided””. But every hour that the student spends learning the instrument does not happen under the nose of the tutor, watched or assessed by him. That is just one example that springs to mind. Despite the Minister’s attempt to clarify the issue, I am still confused by what would qualify as ““guided learning””. I see that he has received another note. I wonder whether he would like to allay my confusion a little, or perhaps we should leave the matter until Report. Would he like to intervene?