Condition E6 is an Office for Students condition of registration for harassment and sexual misconduct. It has applied to every OfS-registered higher education provider in England since 1 August 2025, and it covers the conduct of staff towards students and students towards each other.
E6 training for harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education
A single comprehensive source of information proves you've written a policy. It doesn't prove your staff and students understand it. That's the gap condition E6 was built to close, and the gap that good training has to close for you.
Our E6 sexual harassment and misconduct eLearning suite gives your staff and students the understanding behind the policy: built with universities, tested by students, and mapped to what condition E6 requires.
What condition E6 asks of your institution
Condition E6 has applied to every OfS-registered higher education provider in England since 1 August 2025. It requires you to take a structured, evidence-based approach to harassment and sexual misconduct: clear definitions, accessible reporting routes, and a single comprehensive source of information that staff and students can easily find. Since September 2024, providers cannot use non-disclosure agreements to silence a student who reports what happened to them.
None of that works without training. A policy nobody has read doesn’t prove anything. This suite closes that gap: for the staff who need to recognise, respond to and record incidents properly, and for the students who need to know what support and reporting routes exist before they ever need them.
Built with the sector it serves
This isn't generic compliance content with a university logo on the front. Several courses in this suite were developed directly with higher education institutions and specialist organisations, so the scenarios, language and tone reflect campus life, not a generic office.
Harassment and sexual misconduct: how your university responds
A foundation course for staff and a separate version for students. It's built to be customised with your own commitments and policies, and to be single comprehensive source of information, so learners see your institution's actual response, not a generic one.
Disclosure by students
Developed with Manchester Metropolitan University. Gives staff practical guidance on how to respond when a student discloses harassment, a hate incident or sexual misconduct, and how to look after themselves afterwards.
Support for students who experience domestic violence
Defines domestic violence, covers the relevant legislation, and gives staff guidance on how to spot the signs, support a student and prevent it through policy, training and risk assessment.
Sexual harassment in higher education (HE)
Covers the legislation and the behaviours that constitute sexual harassment, the impact on those affected, and what to do if you experience or witness it. Built with audio and real scenarios so the knowledge holds up outside a classroom.
Active bystander
Shows staff what it means to challenge inappropriate behaviour safely, and how to step in rather than stand by.
Dignity and respect at work
Sets out what dignity and respect look like day to day, why they matter, and how to rebuild them when they're missing.
Student bystander intervention
Funded by the Office for Students and developed with Coventry University. Teaches students what safe intervention looks like, and why stepping in matters.
Consent on campus
Created with the charity Rape Crisis. A clear, myth-busting course on what consent is and how students can navigate it safely.
Freedom of speech
Covers the UK law on freedom of speech, how it intersects with harassment and misconduct policy, and the impact of digital communication.
Part of a connected suite, not a standalone tick-box
When Ciphr eLearning courses sit in Ciphr's learning management system, course completion, mandatory training status and reporting can all live in one place instead of a separate spreadsheet your compliance lead has to chase every term. You get one view of who's done the training and who hasn't, without adding another system to manage.