Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill [AS PASSED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about a national funding strategy for tertiary education, skills and apprenticeships; to make provision about the functions and governance of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council; to make provision about financial support for students in further and higher education; and for connected purposes. 5 P ART A1 N ATIONAL FUNDING STRATEGY A1 National funding strategy (1) The Scottish Ministers must prepare a national funding strategy for tertiary education, skills and apprenticeships. 10 (2) The strategy must set out— 1 (a) the Scottish Ministers’ view of skills needs in Scotland, including in different localities within Scotland, (b) the Scottish Ministers’ priorities for funding further education and higher education, programmes of training for employment, Scottish apprenticeships and work-based 15 learning, (c) the outcomes which the Scottish Ministers are seeking to deliver through funding those activities...