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Higher Education and Research Act 2017

Committee stage

Session 2016-17

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Total results 604 (page 8 of 31)

Leave out Clause 23 and insert the following new Clause—

“Assessing the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 170A

Clause 23, page 14, line 30 leave out from “may” to “of” and insert “appoint an independent body to make assessments”

Viscount Hanworth
Labour, Excepted Hereditary
Amendment number: 166A

Clause 23, page 14, line 31 leave out “standards” and insert “systems and processes the provider has in place to ensure appropriate standards are”

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
Crossbench, Life peer
Sponsors Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Baroness Garden of Frognal
Amendment number: 167

Clause 23, page 14, line 32 at end insert—

In fulfilling its responsibilities under this section to assess standards for the purpose of determining whether institutions satisfy initial or ongoing conditions of registration applying to higher education providers, the OfS must have due regard to any advice received from the Quality Assessment Committee.”

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
Crossbench, Life peer
Sponsor Baroness Garden of Frognal
Amendment number: 168

Clause 23, page 14, line 33 leave out from “must” to “of” and insert “appoint an independent body to make assessments”

Viscount Hanworth
Labour, Excepted Hereditary
Amendment number: 168A

Clause 23, page 14, line 34 leave out “standards” and insert “systems and processes the provider has in place to ensure appropriate standards are”

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
Crossbench, Life peer
Sponsor Baroness Garden of Frognal
Amendment number: 169

Clause 23, page 14, line 42 leave out “standards” and insert “systems and processes the provider has in place to ensure appropriate standards are”

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
Crossbench, Life peer
Sponsor Baroness Garden of Frognal
Amendment number: 170

Clause 24, page 15, line 11 at end insert—

A member of the Committee must be appointed as Chair, and that individual must not be a member of or otherwise affiliated to a registered political party.”

Baroness Garden of Frognal
Liberal Democrat, Life peer
Sponsor Lord Storey
Amendment number: 171

Clause 24, page 15, line 15 at end insert “, and the collective experience of the members must span a broad range of the different types of higher education providers in England, including those offering part-time and distance learning.”

Baroness Garden of Frognal
Liberal Democrat, Life peer
Sponsors Lord Storey, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Baroness Bakewell
Amendment number: 172

Clause 24, page 15, line 20 leave out subsection (6) and insert—

No member of the Committee may be an individual who is a member of the OfS.”

Viscount Hanworth
Labour, Excepted Hereditary
Amendment number: 173

Clause 24, page 15, line 21 at end insert—

At least one member of the Committee must, at the time of their appointment, be engaged in the representation or promotion of the interests of individual students, or students generally, on higher education courses provided by higher education providers.”

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 174

Clause 25, page 15, line 25 at beginning insert “Subject to subsection (3),”

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 175

Clause 25, page 15, line 25 leave out “scheme to give ratings” and insert “framework to publish consistent information”

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 176

Clause 25, page 15, line 25 leave out “give ratings” and insert “provide information”

Lord Norton of Louth
Conservative, Life peer
Amendment number: 177

Clause 25, page 15, line 25 after “ratings” insert “ and commendations”

Lord Lucas
Conservative, Excepted Hereditary
Amendment number: 178

Clause 25, page 15, line 26 leave out “to” and insert “about”

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 179

Clause 25, page 15, line 26 leave out “, and the standards applied to, ”

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
Crossbench, Life peer
Sponsors Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Baroness Garden of Frognal
Amendment number: 180

Clause 25, page 15, line 27 leave out “where they apply for such a rating”

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 181

Clause 25, page 15, line 28 leave out “a rating” and insert “information”

Lord Norton of Louth
Conservative, Life peer
Amendment number: 182

Clause 25, page 15, line 29 leave out “to” and insert “about”

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Labour, Life peer
Amendment number: 183
Total results 604 (page 8 of 31)