Clause 17
Further Education and Training Bill [Lords]
5:45 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister (Vocational Education), Education; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
The Minister is right to address the particular issues about progression and we understand the role of the QAA in that area. However, I want him also to assure the Committee that, if the QAA found other failings in terms of rigour or quality—progression is part of the story and part of the guarantee of rigour, but it is not the only guarantee of rigour—presumably it would act in a similar way and the capacity to award degrees could be similarly withdrawn.