Introduction to Higher Education Law
Introduction to Higher Education Law 1. “Higher Education law” refers to the legal framework which governs institutions like universities and colleges. It is made up of public law and regulatory, company law, consumer rights, institutional governance, freedom of speech, and human rights. Regulatory 2. Providers of higher education services (HEPs) in England are regulated by the Office for Students (OfS), which was created in 2018 as a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education (DfE). That means that while the OfS is not part of central government, it reports to Parliament through the DfE. 3. The OfS was created and is governed by the Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA). It covers all students, whether undergraduate or postgraduate, national or international, young or mature, full-time or part-time, etc. The OfS does not have a principal objective, unlike other regulators. Rather, it has a series of duties to which it must have regard to when exe...
