The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Higher Education Student Information) Regulations 2009

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;

“the 1992 Act” means the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(1);

“the Funding Councils” means the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales;

“institution of higher education” means an institution within the higher education sector within the meaning of the 1992 Act;

“mode of study” includes full and part time study and sandwich, block release and day release courses;

“student” means, for the purposes of these Regulations, a person who undertakes a higher education course of study provided by an institution of higher education;

“UK provider reference number” means a unique number allocated to a learning provider upon successful registration on the United Kingdom Register of Learning Providers;

“unique student identifier” means the number which—

(a)

is assigned to a student and is used by the Funding Councils for record management purposes;

(b)

continues to apply to the student regardless of any change in the student’s institution of higher education; and

(c)

does not, without additional information, identify the student.

(1)

1992 c.13.