Part 1: The Office for Students Quality and standards Section 23: Assessing the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education
Subsection (1) gives the OfS a power to assess, or make arrangements for the assessment of the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education by English higher education providers.
	Subsection (2) places a duty on the OfS to assess, or make arrangements for the assessment of the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education, provided by:
institutions that have applied to be registered, for the purposes of determining whether such institution meets any initial registration condition relating to quality or standards; and
registered higher education providers, for the purposes of determining whether they continue to meet any ongoing registration condition relating to quality or standards.
	Where there are sector-recognised standards, any assessment of standards under this section must only relate to matters which are covered by the sector‐recognised standards; and relate to, and assess the standards applied against the sector-recognised standards. "Sector-recognised standards" is defined in section 13.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.