Pearson Group: Data Protection

(asked on 21st June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what conditions of use have been agreed with Pearson Ltd in relation to personal confidential data that company will receive under the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Cooperation and Information Sharing) Regulations 2018.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 26th June 2018

The Office for Students (OfS) will be able to share personal data with Pearson in their capacity as an awarding body. It is anticipated that this data will primarily be for the purposes of the assessment of the quality and standards of the provider’s provision or of its propriety relating to genuine students being registered by providers for the qualifications.

When sharing this information the OfS is required to comply with data protection principles, and to have regard to its general duties under Section 2 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, including regulating providers in a transparent, accountable, proportionate and consistent manner.

We understand that the OfS will publish its collaboration agreements with other bodies on its website and these will set out how the organisations will work together and whether there is also a data sharing agreement in place.

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