Part 1: The Office for Students Access and participation Section 36: Duty to protect academic freedom
This section requires that, in performing its functions of approving, varying or refusing to renew access and participation plans, the OfS must protect academic freedom. This includes, in particular, the freedom of institutions to determine the contents and manner of teaching of their courses, who teaches those courses and their own admissions criteria.
	The duty to protect academic freedom in this section applies in place of the duty in subsection (1)(a) of section 2 to have regard to the need to protect institutional autonomy in relation to the freedoms of providers relating to course content, appointment of academic staff, and admission of students, and the freedoms of academic staff, mentioned in subsections (8)(b) and (c) of section 2.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.