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New materials might seem safe but, in the absence of positive, detailed evidence of safety, it is best to assume they might not be. Here are some compliance areas you could find beneficial to add to your project compliance checklist.

Where food provision is outsourced, your University wants to be comfortable that you have the contractual levers in place to make sure that delivery by your caterer meets your, and your students' expectations.

The Employment Rights Bill proposes significant reforms to employment law, including new day-one rights for workers, limiting the use of zero hours contracts and making it more difficult to refuse flexible working requests.

In the 2023/24 academic year, the number of cases of students at UK universities illicitly using AI tools, such as Chat GPT and other large language models to write their dissertations or otherwise help them pass their assessments increased exponentially.

The Office for Students has published consumer rights case reports after the referral of three higher education providers to National Trading Standards over concerns of student contract clauses breaching Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. a

On 26 October 2024, the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 introduces new sections 40A and 124A into the Equality Act 2010 (EqA).