(1) A person shall not be entitled to receive unemployment assistance while attending a course of study, other than in such circumstances and subject to such conditions and for such periods as may be prescribed.
(2) In this section -
"academic year"means a period in which a course of study commences in one year and finishes in the next following year and includes term vacations;
"a course of study" means, subject to subsection (3), a full-time day course of study, instruction or training at an institution of education;
"institution of education" means - (a) a school, (b) a university, (c) a college of a university, (d) any institution which the Minister for Education has designated in regulations made pursuant to section 1 of the Higher Education Authority Act, 1971, as an institution of higher education for the purposes of that Act, (e) any institution to which the National Council for Education Awards Act, 1979, applies, (f) any institution established under th