Regulatory notice 6: Condition C4: Student protection directions

This regulatory notice contains an ongoing condition of registration introduced to enable the Office for Students (OfS) to intervene more quickly and in a targeted way when we consider there to be a material risk that a registered provider may cease the provision of higher education.

The condition applies from 1 April 2021 to all providers registered with the OfS, except Further Education Bodies (as defined in section 4 of the Technical and Further Education Act 2017).

This document contains an extract of the OfS’s regulatory framework and therefore constitutes material published by the OfS under section 75 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. It should be read in conjunction with the whole regulatory framework, which sets out in full the OfS’s approach to registration and regulation.