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Further and Higher Education Act 1992

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76 Power to award degrees, etc.E+W

(1)The Privy Council may by order specify any institution which provides higher education as competent to grant in pursuance of this section either or both of the kinds of award mentioned in subsection (2)(a) and (b) below.

(2)The kinds of award referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a)awards granted to persons who complete an appropriate course of study and satisfy an appropriate assessment, and

(b)awards granted to persons who complete an appropriate programme of supervised research and satisfy an appropriate assessment,

and in this section “award” means any degree, diploma, certificate or other academic award or distinction and “assessment” includes examination and test.

(3)An institution for the time being specified in such an order may grant any award of a kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b) above which it is competent to grant by virtue of the order to persons who complete the appropriate course of study or, as the case may be, programme of supervised research on or after the date specified in the order.

(4)An institution specified in such an order may also—

(a)grant honorary degrees, and

(b)grant degrees to members of the academic and other staff of the institution.

(5)Any power conferred on an institution to grant awards in pursuance of this section includes power—

(a)to authorise other institutions to do so on behalf of the institution,

(b)to do so jointly with another institution, and

(c)to deprive any person of any award granted to him by or on behalf of the institution in pursuance of this section (or, in the case of an award granted to him by the institution and another institution jointly, to do so jointly with the other institution).

(6)It shall be for the institution to determine in accordance with any relevant provisions of the instruments relating to or regulating the institution the courses of study or programmes of research, and the assessments, which are appropriate for the grant of any award and the terms and conditions on which any of the powers conferred under this section may be exercised.

(7)Section 124D of the M1Education Reform Act 1988 applies in relation to orders under subsection (1) above as it applies in relation to the exercise of powers for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

Commencement Information

I1S. 76 wholly in force at 6.5.1992 see s. 94(3) and S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1

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