non-compulsory education definition

non-compulsory education means Early Childhood Care and Education provided to children between the ages of zero to five, before prescribed compulsory education is rendered;
non-compulsory education means education which serves to obtain a qualification classified at any level of the Malta Qualifications Framework or of a recognised foreign qualifications framework, excluding any qualification obtained upon completion of compulsory education provided in accordance with the framework of the national curriculum established under article 47 of the Act;