These Regulations apply certain provisions of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”) (as inserted by the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009) to institutions within the higher education sector in Wales. The provisions of the 2000 Act that are applied (sections 33A to 33L, 33N and 33O) are concerned with the local curriculum for persons aged 16 to 19.

The Regulations ensure that persons aged 16 to 19 undertaking secondary education or further education in a higher education institution benefit from the same entitlement to choose and follow courses of study within a local curriculum as those persons undertaking their education in schools or further education institutions. The higher education institutions are now under the same duties in relation to the provision of the local curriculum as schools and further education institutions.