Conditional unconditional offers banned by OfS

Pared-back registration condition gives warning on unconditional offers

Plans to back-date breaches of a temporary registration condition have been dropped after some claimed the Office for Students was “over-reaching its regulatory remit”, but universities still risk hefty fines for making so-called conditional unconditional offers.

Initial proposals for a one-year registration condition have been narrowed down with “a number of important revisions” after consultation respondents warned the regulator was “over-reaching its regulatory remit” and was “using the pandemic as an opportunity to obtain further powers, which it would then be reluctant to relinquish”.