Condition B1
The provider must ensure that the students registered on each higher education course receive a high quality academic experience.
For the purposes of this condition, a high quality academic experience includes but is not limited to ensuring all of the following:
a. each higher education course is up-to-date;
b. each higher education course provides educational challenge;
c. each higher education course is coherent;
d. each higher education course is effectively delivered; and
e. each higher education course, as appropriate to the subject matter of the course, requires students to develop relevant skills.
Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
General ongoing condition only |
Yes |
Yes |
Condition B2
The provider must take all reasonable steps to ensure:
a. each cohort of students registered on each higher education course receives resources and support which are sufficient for the purpose of ensuring:
i. a high quality academic experience for those students; and
ii. those students succeed in and beyond higher education; and
b. effective engagement with each cohort of students which is sufficient for the purpose of ensuring:
i. a high quality academic experience for those students; and
ii. those students succeed in and beyond higher education.
Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
General ongoing condition only |
Yes |
Yes |
Condition B3
The provider must deliver positive outcomes for students on its higher education courses.
For the purposes of this condition, delivering positive outcomes means that either:
a. in the OfS’s judgement, the outcome data for each of the indicators and split indicators are at or above the relevant numerical thresholds; or
b. to the extent that the provider does not have outcome data for each of the indicators and split indicators that are at or above the relevant numerical thresholds, the OfS otherwise judges that:
i. the provider’s context justifies the outcome data; and/or
ii. this is because the OfS does not hold any data showing the provider’s numerical performance against the indicator or split indicator; and/or
iii. this is because the OfS does hold this data but the data refers to fewer than the minimum number of students.
Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
Both |
Yes |
Yes |
Condition B4
The provider must ensure that:
a. students are assessed effectively;
b. each assessment is valid and reliable;
c. academic regulations are designed to ensure that relevant awards are credible;
d. subject to paragraph B4.3, in respect of each higher education course, academic regulations are designed to ensure the effective assessment of technical proficiency in the English language in a manner which appropriately reflects the level and content of the applicable higher education course; and
e. relevant awards granted to students are credible at the point of being granted and when compared to those granted previously.
Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
General ongoing condition only |
Yes |
Yes |
Condition B5
The provider must ensure that, in respect of any relevant awards granted to students who complete a higher education course provided by, or on behalf of, the provider (whether or not the provider is the awarding body):
a. any standards set appropriately reflect any applicable sector-recognised standards; and
b. awards are only granted to students whose knowledge and skills appropriately reflect any applicable sector-recognised standards.
Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
General ongoing condition only |
Yes |
Yes |
Condition B6
The provider must participate in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
General ongoing condition only |
Yes, if the provider fulfils eligibility requirements and meets headcount and indicator thresholds |
Yes, if the provider fulfils eligibility requirements and meets headcount and indicator thresholds |
Condition B7
The new initial condition of registration B7 applies to applications for registration made on or after 1 May 2022. Transitional arrangements will apply to applications for registration which were live at any time between 1 March 2022 and 30 April 2022. The implementation arrangements are set out in this Notice.
Summary: The provider must:
- have credible plans that would enable the provider, if registered, to comply with conditions B1, B2 and B4 from the date of registration; and
- have the capacity and resources necessary to deliver, in practice, those plans.
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Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
Initial condition only
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Yes
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Yes
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Condition B8
The new initial condition of registration B8 applies to applications for registration made on or after 1 May 2022. Transitional arrangements will apply to applications for registration which were live at any time between 1 March 2022 and 30 April 2022. The implementation arrangements are set out in this Notice.
Summary: The provider must demonstrate, in a credible manner, that any standards to be set and/or applied in respect of any relevant awards granted to students who complete a higher education course provided by, or on behalf of, the provider (if registered), whether or not the provider is the awarding body, are consistent with any applicable sector-recognised standards.
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Initial or general ongoing condition? |
Approved (fee cap) providers |
Approved providers |
Initial condition only
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Yes
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Yes
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