Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022
Part 1
Skills and education for work
Chapter 1
Education and training for local needs
Local skills improvement plans
1
Local skills improvement plans
2
Designation of employer representative bodies
3
Removal of designations
4
Interpretation
Further education institutions: duty in relation to local needs
5
Institutions in England within the further education sector: local needs
Chapter 2
Technical education qualifications, apprenticeships, etc
Functions of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
6
Functions of the Institute: oversight etc
Technical education qualifications
7
Additional powers to approve technical education qualifications
8
Functions of the Institute: availability of qualifications outside England
9
Technical education qualifications: co-operation between the Institute and Ofqual
10
Application of accreditation requirement in relation to technical education qualifications
11
Information sharing in relation to technical education qualifications
12
Technical education qualifications: minor and consequential amendments
13
Renumbering of provisions relating to technical education qualifications
Information about technical education and training
14
Information about technical education and training: access to English schools
Chapter 3
Lifelong learning
15
Support for lifelong learning
16
Lifelong learning: amendment of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017
Part 2
Quality of provision
Initial teacher training for further education
17
Initial teacher training for further education
Quality assessments of higher education
18
Office for Students: power to assess the quality of higher education by reference to student outcomes
Part 3
Protection for learners
Chapter 1
Regulation of post-16 education or training providers
Funding arrangements with post-16 education or training providers
19
List of relevant providers
20
Prohibitions on entering into funding arrangements with providers
21
Funding arrangements: interpretation
22
Regulations under section 19 or 20
Further education in England: intervention
23
Further education in England: intervention
Chapter 2
Education administration and administration of further education bodies
24
Further education bodies in education administration: application of other insolvency procedures
25
Further education bodies in education administration: transfer schemes
Part 4
Miscellaneous and general
Chapter 1
Cheating services provided for post-16 students at English institutions
26
Meaning of “relevant service” and other key expressions
27
Offence of providing or arranging a relevant service
28
Offence of advertising a relevant service
29
Offences: bodies corporate and unincorporated associations
30
Interpretation of Chapter
Chapter 2
Miscellaneous provisions
16 to 19 Academies: designation as having a religious character
31
16 to 19 Academy: designation as having a religious character
Institutions within the further education sector: procedure for designation
32
Institutions within the further education sector: designation
Publication by the Office for Students
33
Office for Students: publication and protection from defamation
Higher education course fee limits: administration
34
Relevant date for purposes of fee limit for certain higher education courses
Chapter 3
General provisions
35
Extent
36
Commencement
37
Short title

Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022
2022 Chapter 21
An Act to make provision about local skills improvement plans; to make provision relating to further education; to make provision about functions of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education and relating to technical education qualifications and apprenticeships; to make provision about student finance and fees; to make provision about assessments and publication of certain matters by the Office for Students; to make provision about the funding of certain post-16 education or training providers; to create offences relating to completing assignments on behalf of students; to make provision about designating 16 to 19 Academies as having a religious character; and for connected purposes.
[28th April 2022]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—