Higher Education: Harassment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many notifications has the Office for Students received relating to harassment and sexual misconduct since Condition E6 came into effect; what proportion of the total number of notifications this is; and what actions the Office for Students has taken in relation to these notifications.
Answered by Josh MacAlister
The Office for Students (OfS) operates independently of the government, and is responsible for regulating higher education (HE) providers in England, including compliance with the Harassment and Sexual Misconduct registration condition E6.
The department does not hold information on the number or proportion of notifications received by the OfS. Decisions on investigations and enforcement are taken wholly by the OfS. It is for the OfS to determine what it publishes about its regulatory activity. To date it has not published any information about notifications, enforcement or investigations relating to registration condition E6.
The OfS has powers to require and publish information from HE providers, and any decisions about introducing additional public data reporting are a matter for the OfS.
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