Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to regulate alternative higher education providers.

All registered higher education providers in England are regulated by the Office for Students (OfS) under powers in the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (HERA). Alternative providers were formerly regulated by the department until the introduction of the OfS register under the HERA. All English higher education providers are now required to be registered by the OfS if they want their students to be able to access tuition fee and maintenance loans. The term ‘alternative higher education providers’ is therefore no longer in use.