LoginOfS calls for more student safeguards
The Office for Students has referred cases of potential malpractice to NTS
Posted 15 June 2023 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Consumer Goods and Services|National
UPDATES: The Office for Students is considering stronger consumer protection requirements for higher education providers, building on its partnership with National Trading Standards to improve safeguards and routes to redress for students.
Higher education regulator the Office for Students (OfS) has called for universities and colleges to do more to ensure that prospective students are given clear information about courses before they apply, that terms and conditions should be fair, and that complaints mechanisms should be in place to enable redress when students’ consumer rights are not met.
The OfS said it has already ref...
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