Guidance

Alternative higher education providers: specific course designation - guidance for applicants

Guidance on the new specific course designation process, the criteria and conditions and the new application process for higher education.

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This guidance has been updated and replaced with a new version.

Applies to England

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Details

The guidance sets out detailed information on conditions which alternative providers of higher education need to abide by when relating to:

  • the specific course designation system
  • the criteria for granting designation
  • the assessment and decision making process
  • the conditions of specific course designation, and
  • how student number controls and sanctions will be applied

The ‘alternative provider specific course designation: supplementary guidance for providers’ provides further detail and clarity on a range of policies and actions that were announced in January and February 2015. It sets out new terms and conditions of designation on the:

  • approach to managing quality from September 2015
  • approach for allocating student number controls
  • terms and conditions of specific course designation

Updates to this page

Published 5 June 2013
Last updated 27 March 2015 + show all updates
  1. Added 'Alternative provider: specific course designation: supplementary guidance for providers'

  2. Updated version of the guidance

  3. Added link to the 'Technical note' which provides supplementary guidance.

  4. First published.

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