Section 2 General duty of the Council to secure high-quality learningI1I2

The Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 is modified as follows.

In section 3 (the Council: general duty), for the words from “securing” to the end substitute

“securing—

(a)

the coherent provision (as a whole) of—

(i)

a high quality of fundable further education and fundable higher education by the post-16 education bodies, and

(ii)

a high quality of Scottish apprenticeships and work-based learning, and

(b)

the undertaking of research among the post-16 education bodies.”.