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As a school providing courses of further education you must not discriminate against, harass or victimise a person who is enrolled on a course or seeks enrolment on a course.
Unlike your obligations to your pupils, your obligations to people enrolled on FE courses include the protected characteristic of age.
For example:
A school offers a further education course in plumbing but restricts it to people aged under 55. This would be unlawful age discrimination unless the school could show it was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. (Unlike the other protected characteristics, direct age discrimination is open to justification in this way.)