Office for Students

(asked on 8th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it remains his policy for the Office for Students to be the validator of last resort for Higher Education Institutions.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 13th March 2018

The department has asked the Office for Students (OfS), in guidance, to undertake an assessment of the operation of the current validation system to identify any unnecessary barriers for providers seeking a validation partner, or any areas of current practice that are not in the interests of students. If OfS, having done that, concludes that further action is required to secure necessary improvements in the operation of the validation system, it will make use of its powers under section 50 of the Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) 2017 to enter into commissioning arrangements. It may also ask the Secretary of State to make regulations under section 51 of HERA to authorise OfS to enter into validation agreements with registered higher education providers itself.

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