Part 1Further and higher education etc.

Provision of further and higher education etc.

3The Council: general duty

It is the duty of the Council to exercise its functions for the purposes of F1securing—

(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.