Possible Clues:

• Left one gainfully employed as a student
• One's trainig
• Still being taught to get a wage at last
• Fact finder, say
• A pupil left nearer collapse
• One ascertaining if king has new queen
• The French composer gets little right - one needing teacher?
• Loewe's partner playing host to a student
• 'Bonnet and back bore battered -- places' (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop)
• Trainee (driver)