Part 1: The Office for Students Quality and standards Section 25: Rating the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education
This section gives the OfS a power to make arrangements for a scheme to give ratings to English, and where appropriate consent is given, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish higher education providers regarding the quality of, and the standards applied to, the higher education provided by them. In practice, this power enables the OfS to run the Teaching Excellence Framework which will assess higher education providers according to the quality of the teaching that they provide.
	Subsections (2) and (3) make provision about the consent required of the Welsh or Scottish Ministers or the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland to enable Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish higher education providers to participate in any scheme established under subsection (1).
	This section forms part of the law of the United Kingdom.