This brief summarises some key points before outlining the legal and regulatory framework within which universities and colleges must make decisions about matters relating to freedom of speech.
Last updated: 14 Dec 2022
PublicationThis briefing note sets out the OfS’s approach to regulating quality and standards.
Last updated: 08 Dec 2022
PublicationSusan Lapworth, the OfS’s chief executive, argues that focusing quality assessment on core academic matters means focusing on the things that matter to students.
Last updated: 06 Dec 2022
Blog postA new partnership between the higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), and National Trading Standards will help protect students at universities and colleges across England.
Last updated: 24 Nov 2022
Press releaseThe Office for Students (OfS) has today published further information about the areas it will prioritise to select courses and higher education providers for assessment of student outcomes in relation to its revised condition B3.
Last updated: 18 Nov 2022
Press releaseHow might higher education providers be vulnerable to fraud, and what they should be doing to protect themselves and taxpayers? David Smy considers the issues.
Last updated: 17 Oct 2022
Blog postThe Office for Students (OfS) will undertake a number of assessment activities that are currently delivered by the designated quality body, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), on an interim basis from April 2023.
Last updated: 13 Oct 2022
Our newsDetails of a consultation on a proposed new name for Newman University.
Last updated: 28 Sep 2022
PublicationWe consulted on publication of information about higher education providers in a consultation that ran from 15 December 2020 to 12 March 2021 and a supplementary consultation that ran from 12 May to 9 June 2022. In this document we identify and
Last updated: 28 Sep 2022
PublicationThis document provides details of the publication requirements for, and the specifications and methodology used by the Office for Students (OfS) in the preparation of the Transparency 2022 information.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2022
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