Higher Education and Research Act 2017, Section 9 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 05 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)The OfS must ensure that the ongoing registration conditions of each registered higher education provider of a prescribed description include a transparency condition.
(2)A transparency condition is a condition that requires the governing body of a registered higher education provider to provide to the OfS, and publish, such information as the OfS requests in relation to one or more of the following—
(a)the number of applications for admission on to higher education courses that the provider has received;
(b)the number of offers made by the provider in relation to those applications;
(c)the number of those offers that were accepted;
(d)the number of students who accepted those offers that completed their course with the provider;
(e)the number of students who attained a particular degree or other academic award, or a particular level of such an award, on completion of their course with the provider.
(3)The information which the OfS may request in relation to the numbers mentioned in subsection (2) includes those numbers by reference to one or more of the following—
(a)the gender of the individuals to which they relate;
(b)their ethnicity;
(c)their socio-economic background.
(4)“Prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section.
Commencement Information
I1S. 9 in force at 1.4.2018 by S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(a)
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