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  Higher Education and Research Bill - Clause 25 - Parliamentary Approval of Rating Scheme for Higher Education Providers
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require Parliament to approve a scheme for rating the quality of higher education providers. 
  @ MP voted no againstrequiring Parliament to approve a scheme for rating the quality of higher education providers. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring Parliament to approve a scheme for rating the quality of higher education providers. 
  
  MPs were considering the Higher Education and Research Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 47, page 16, line 23, at end insertâ
  
  :â(7) No arrangements for a scheme shall be made under subsection (1) unless a draft of the scheme has been laid before and approved by a resolution of both Houses of Parliament.â
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have added a new subclause to the end of clause 25[2], a clause titled ''Rating the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education''. 
  
  The scheme referred to is a scheme provided for in the Bill for rating the quality of higher education providers. 
  
  
  An explanatory statement accompanying the rejected amendment stated:
  
  :This amendment and amendment 46 would ensure TEF measures were subject to scrutiny by, and approval of, both Houses of Parliament.
  
  The acronym TEF probably refers to the [http://www.hefce.ac.uk/lt/tef/ Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)].
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/highereducationandresearch.html Parliament's webpage on the Higher Education and Research Bill 2016-17]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0078/cbill_2016-20170078_en_3.htm#pt1-pb8-l1g25 Clause 25 of the Higher Education and Research Bill 2016-17 as at the time of the vote] 
  
  
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