Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012

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Obligation on providers to furnish information to enrolled learners.

67.— (1) A provider shall, before commencing a programme of education and training and before accepting any payment from or on behalf of an enrolled learner in respect of the programme, notify the enrolled learner in writing of the following:

(a) where completion of the programme by the learner and attainment by the learner of a specified standard of knowledge, skill or competence upon such completion entitles the learner to an award—

(i) the name of the awarding body or, where appropriate, awarding bodies making the award,

(ii) the title of the award, and

(iii) whether the award is recognised within the Framework, and if so—

(I) the level of that recognition within the Framework, and

(II) whether the award is a Major, Minor, Special Purpose or Supplemental award as identified within the Framework;

(b) where completion of the programme by the learner and the attainment by the learner of a specified standard of knowledge, skill or competence upon such completion does not entitle the learner to an award, that fact;

(c) where the provider is required to have procedures for access, transfer and progression in place under section 56 , a statement of how those procedures apply to that programme;

(d) where the provider is required to have arrangements in place under section 65 , details of the arrangements the provider has in place under subsection (4) of that section.

(2) A provider to whom subsection (1) applies shall notify the enrolled learner in writing of any change in the information notified to the learner under subsection (1) within 14 days after becoming aware of that change.

(3) A provider who—

(a) fails to comply with subsection (1) or (2), or

(b) in purported compliance with subsection (1) or (2), provides an enrolled learner with information which is false or misleading in a material respect,

commits an offence.