Part 1: The Office for Students Powers to grant degrees etc Section 46: Grant, variation or revocation of authorisation: advice on quality etc
This section requires the OfS to seek and have regard to advice from the relevant body (being the body designated to perform assessment functions under Schedule 4 or, where there is no such body, a committee established by the OfS) on the quality of and standards applied to higher education provided by a provider before the OfS grants, varies, or on grounds of quality or standards, revokes degree‐awarding powers. The advice must be informed by the views of persons who, amongst them, have a range of specified experience. The advice must include the relevant body’s view on whether the provider has the ability to maintain appropriate quality and appropriate standards. Where the advice concerns the award, variation or revocation of research degree awarding powers, that advice must also be informed by the views of UKRI. The section makes provision for where there are one or more sector-recognised standards.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.