15/10/2025
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Webinar | Wednesday 15 October 2025 | 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 Hour
Handling student disciplinary issues is never straightforward - but when those students are training for regulated professions such as medicine, dentistry, teaching (PGCE), or law, the stakes are significantly higher. These cases raise distinct and complex challenges for universities, which must manage dual responsibilities to the individual student, the wider student and public body, and relevant professional regulators.
In this webinar, Daniel Purcell, Partner in Bevan Brittan’s Higher Education Team, will draw on his experience of supporting major universities across the UK to explore how institutions can safely and fairly manage Fitness to Practise and Fitness to Teach concerns.
Key topics will include:
- Understanding the intersection between student discipline and professional regulation
- Managing conflicting roles: balancing investigative functions with pastoral and academic responsibilities
- Navigating cases involving placements, public interest, and safety risks
- Responding to procedural challenges from students
- Meeting disclosure obligations and ensuring fairness in hearings
- Engaging effectively with regulators such as the GMC and the Teaching Regulation Agency
- Developing compliant internal policies, frameworks, and training for institutional resilience
Why attend?Universities face increasing scrutiny around how they manage fitness to practise concerns. This webinar will equip higher education professionals with the insights and practical tools they need to confidently handle complex cases, ensure procedural compliance, and reduce legal and reputational risk.
This is the second in our higher education autumn series of Wednesday webinars. Our higher education specialists will be hosting our other sessions on 8 and 22 October.
Who should attend:
Academic leads, Heads of Medical Schools, student conduct officers, legal counsel, HR teams, regulatory compliance professionals, and risk managers in the higher education sector—especially those involved in managing vocational and professional training programmes.
Click here for further details on our other webinars below:
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Please be aware that places for this seminar are limited and may get over subscribed.
Our clients will get priority, but we will endeavour to increase capacity where we can to allow all those who wish to attend a place.
Where we are heavily oversubscribed we will limit places per organisation.
Registration will close at the advertised start time.
