Part 2: Other education measures Deregulation of higher education corporations
Higher education corporations originated in 1992 from local authority-funded higher education providers. Since then, additional higher education corporations have been created by further education corporations transferring into the higher education sector.
	Once removed from local education authority control in 1992, the new higher education corporations had to take on responsibility for their own governance, management and staffing. As they were now entities with a new type of corporate status, it was considered necessary to set down a detailed legislative framework within which they would operate.
	This Act deregulates the legislative arrangements governing higher education corporations, with the aim of placing them on a more equal footing with other providers of higher education incorporated under different constitutional arrangements.