Legislation – Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022
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PART 2REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF TERTIARY EDUCATION PROVIDERS
CHAPTER 1REGISTRATION OF TERTIARY EDUCATION PROVIDERS
Registration conditions
33Mandatory ongoing registration conditions on equal opportunity
(1)
The Commission must ensure that the ongoing registration conditions of each registered provider include conditions requiring the delivery of measurable outcomes to further each of the aims in subsection (2).
(2)
The aims are—
(a)
increasing participation in relevant tertiary education provided by, or on behalf of, the registered provider by persons who are members of under-represented groups;
(b)
retention of students who are members of under-represented groups to the end of courses of relevant tertiary education provided by, or on behalf of, the registered provider;
(c)
reduction of any gaps in attainment in relevant tertiary education provided by, or on behalf of, the registered provider between different groups of students specified in the conditions, where the differences arise from social, cultural, economic or organisational factors;
(d)
provision of support for students finishing courses of relevant tertiary education provided by, or on behalf of, the registered provider who are members of under-represented groups to continue their tertiary education, find employment or start a business.
(3)
In this section—
”relevant tertiary education” (“addysg drydyddol berthnasol”) means courses of tertiary education provided wholly or mainly in Wales and of a kind that relates to the category of the register in which the provider in question is registered;
“under-represented groups” (“grwpiau sydd heb gynrychiolaeth ddigonol”) are groups specified in the conditions that are under-represented in relevant tertiary education as a result of social, cultural, economic or organisational factors.