Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;

• “the 1992 Act” means the Further and Higher Education Act 1992^f1;

• “the Funding Councils” means the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales;

• “institution of higher education” means an institution within the higher education sector within the meaning of the 1992 Act;

• “mode of study” includes full and part time study and sandwich, block release and day release courses;

• “student” means, for the purposes of these Regulations, a person who undertakes a higher education course of study provided by an institution of higher education;

• “UK provider reference number” means a unique number allocated to a learning provider upon successful registration on the United Kingdom Register of Learning Providers;

• “unique student identifier” means the number which—

  1. (a)

     is assigned to a student and is used by the Funding Councils for record management purposes;

  2. (b)

     continues to apply to the student regardless of any change in the student’s institution of higher education; and

  3. (c)

     does not, without additional information, identify the student.