Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022

16 Lifelong learning: amendment of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017

(1) The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 9 (mandatory transparency condition for certain providers), after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) The OfS must not request information relating to modules of full courses by virtue of a transparency condition more frequently than it requests information relating to full courses by virtue of the condition.”

(3) In section 83(1) (meaning of “English higher education provider” etc), for the definition of “higher education course” substitute—

• ““higher education course” means—

  (a)

  a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988, or

  (b)

  a module of such a course, where it is undertaken otherwise than as part of that course;”.

(4) In section 85 (definitions)—

(a) in subsection (1), at the appropriate place insert—

• ““full course” means a higher education course that is not a module of another higher education course;”;

(b) after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) References in this Part to modules (except in relation to references to the full course of which the module forms part) are to modules which are—

(a) modules of full courses, but

(b) undertaken otherwise than as part of those courses.”