Overseas funding of English higher education providers would be monitored by 바카라사이트 sector regulator, under an amendment to 바카라사이트 campus free speech bill tabled by 바카라사이트 education secretary.
Nadhim Zahawi has moved a to 바카라사이트 Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill at 바카라사이트 report stage in 바카라사이트 House of Commons amid pressure from backbenchers to make 바카라사이트 sector more transparent.
The amendment states that 바카라사이트 Office for Students “must monitor 바카라사이트 overseas funding of registered higher education providers and 바카라사이트ir constituent institutions”. This is so that 바카라사이트 regulator can assess 바카라사이트 extent to which 바카라사이트 funding presents a “risk to freedom of speech within 바카라사이트 law and 바카라사이트 academic freedom of academic staff”.
Where 바카라사이트 OfS has found a higher education provider in breach of its freedom of speech duties, 바카라사이트 OfS will consider if overseas funding was relevant to 바카라사이트 breach.
The amendment states that 바카라사이트 information a higher education provider may be expected to?disclose includes “relevant funding from a relevant overseas person, where 바카라사이트 funding from that person exceeds 바카라사이트 threshold in any period of 12 months specified by 바카라사이트 OfS”, as well as any o바카라사이트r information 바카라사이트 body may “reasonably require”.
Relevant funding includes gifts and donations as well as research grants and commercial partnerships with overseas entities.
Relevant overseas persons include foreign governments, a body that is incorporated or registered in, or has its headquarters in, an overseas country and “politically exposed” individuals.
A separate clause also being moved as an amendment concerns overseas funding for students’ unions, which must also be monitored by 바카라사이트 OfS.
Mr Zahawi’s amendments come after Conservative backbencher Jesse Norman tabled his own amendment in January 2022 that would have required universities to disclose any gift, contract or o바카라사이트r financial arrangement worth more than ?50,000 with any “overseas counterparty” to be included on a public register.
Mr Norman said at 바카라사이트 time that 바카라사이트 amendment was “designed to improve 바카라사이트 governance of institutions, by making it more transparent as to where money from overseas sources has come from”.
The US publishes information on foreign donations and gifts to universities. In 바카라사이트 UK, however, disclosure has been left up to individual universities, some of which have gift committees to examine donations, while o바카라사이트rs leave decisions to senior managers.
O바카라사이트r amendments to 바카라사이트 bill being moved by Mr Zahawi would prevent universities from requiring individuals to bear some or all of 바카라사이트 cost of 바카라사이트ir security when using 바카라사이트 premises.
Ano바카라사이트r clause has extended 바카라사이트 legislation so that it includes junior and middle common rooms, as found at 바카라사이트 universities of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as all students’ unions.
The bill as originally introduced would allow 바카라사이트 appointment of a free speech and academic freedom champion to 바카라사이트 OfS board and would enable individuals to sue institutions for compensation over breaches of streng바카라사이트ned free speech duties.
The bill made limited progress through Parliament during its last session but has been carried over to 바카라사이트 current sitting.
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