Part 1: The Office for Students Access and participation
This Act introduces a transparency duty requiring higher education providers to publish data on the backgrounds of their applicants to make their admissions processes clearer. It also requires the OfS to consider access and success for students from disadvantaged backgrounds alongside choice and competition. It provides for a member of the OfS with responsibility for fair access and participation for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, whose role is enshrined in law.
	This Act does not allow for the OfS to set targets for access and success. Instead, in a continuation of the way that the Director of Fair Access to Higher Education has operated, it will be able to work with institutions to ensure they are doing as much as they can to make real progress on these issues.
	The OfS has a duty to protect academic freedom, including institutional autonomy over admissions, in the performance of its duties around access and participation.