Part 1The Office for Students
Mandatory registration conditions
I19Mandatory transparency condition for certain providers
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.