Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022

1. Introductory Text

2. Part 1 Skills and education for work

   1. Chapter 1 Education and training for local needs

      1. Local skills improvement plans

         1. 1. Local skills improvement plans

         2. 2. Designation of employer representative bodies

         3. 3. Removal of designations

         4. 4. Interpretation

      2. Further education institutions: duty in relation to local needs

         1. 5. Institutions in England within the further education sector: local needs

   2. Chapter 2 Technical education qualifications, apprenticeships, etc

      1. Functions of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

         1. 6. Functions of the Institute: oversight etc

      2. Technical education qualifications

         1. 7. Additional powers to approve technical education qualifications

         2. 8. Functions of the Institute: availability of qualifications outside England

         3. 9. Technical education qualifications: co-operation between the Institute and Ofqual

         4. 10. Application of accreditation requirement in relation to technical education qualifications

         5. 11. Information sharing in relation to technical education qualifications

         6. 12. Technical education qualifications: minor and consequential amendments

         7. 13. Renumbering of provisions relating to technical education qualifications

      3. Information about technical education and training

         1. 14. Information about technical education and training: access to English schools

   3. Chapter 3 Lifelong learning

      1. 15. Support for lifelong learning

      2. 16. Lifelong learning: amendment of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017

3. Part 2 Quality of provision

   1. Initial teacher training for further education

      1. 17. Initial teacher training for further education

   2. Quality assessments of higher education

      1. 18. Office for Students: power to assess the quality of higher education by reference to student outcomes

4. Part 3 Protection for learners

   1. Chapter 1 Regulation of post-16 education or training providers

      1. Funding arrangements with post-16 education or training providers

         1. 19. List of relevant providers

         2. 20. Prohibitions on entering into funding arrangements with providers

         3. 21. Funding arrangements: interpretation

         4. 22. Regulations under section 19 or 20

      2. Further education in England: intervention

         1. 23. Further education in England: intervention

   2. Chapter 2 Education administration and administration of further education bodies

      1. 24. Further education bodies in education administration: application of other insolvency procedures

      2. 25. Further education bodies in education administration: transfer schemes

5. Part 4 Miscellaneous and general

   1. Chapter 1 Cheating services provided for post-16 students at English institutions

      1. 26. Meaning of “relevant service” and other key expressions

      2. 27. Offence of providing or arranging a relevant service

      3. 28. Offence of advertising a relevant service

      4. 29. Offences: bodies corporate and unincorporated associations

      5. 30. Interpretation of Chapter

   2. Chapter 2 Miscellaneous provisions

      1. 16 to 19 Academies: designation as having a religious character

         1. 31. 16 to 19 Academy: designation as having a religious character

      2. Institutions within the further education sector: procedure for designation

         1. 32. Institutions within the further education sector: designation

      3. Publication by the Office for Students

         1. 33. Office for Students: publication and protection from defamation

      4. Higher education course fee limits: administration

         1. 34. Relevant date for purposes of fee limit for certain higher education courses

   3. Chapter 3 General provisions

      1. 35. Extent

      2. 36. Commencement

      3. 37. Short title