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Small providers: life at the pointy end of the Office for Students
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OfS
Regulation
Apr 2, 2019
Black students do far worse at university
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BAME
OfS
Mar 30, 2019
Supporting students to succeed: OfS allocates £1.4 billion for 2019-20
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OfS
Funding
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Mar 29, 2019
Shakira Martin on widening participation
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OfS
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Mar 22, 2019
OfS is one year older – but how much wiser?
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Mar 18, 2019
Universities have lost the country: Here’s how UUK must reform to win it back
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Mar 14, 2019
Office for Students subscription fees rise again
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Mar 13, 2019
Office for Students registration fees: impact assessment
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Mar 12, 2019
Is the Office for Students delivering the deliverables?
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Regulation
Feb 28, 2019
Labour brands English OfS ‘not fit for purpose’ in overhaul plan
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Angela Rayner
Labour
Feb 16, 2019
Labour pledges to prevent universities from going bust
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Feb 16, 2019
In the news 15 February 2019
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Feb 15, 2019
Pay report exposes universities regulator as 'paper tiger'
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Feb 12, 2019
You get what you pay for? The OfS on senior staff pay
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Feb 12, 2019
Office for Students board finally has FE representation
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Jan 31, 2019
Regulator warns against unconditional offer ‘pressure selling’
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Jan 25, 2019
The OfS on unconditional offers
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Jan 25, 2019
Office for Students: ‘fining council’ or facing impossible job?
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Jan 24, 2019
College group told to improve student outcomes by OfS
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Jan 17, 2019
Writtle fined £250K over shortfall on promised outreach spending
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Jan 11, 2019
Office for Students scraps HE access spending rule
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Jan 2, 2019
Stand-alone teaching intensity measure ‘could mislead applicants’
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OfS
Jan 1, 2019
The market forces driving university grade inflation (Letters)
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OfS
Dec 26, 2018
Universities told to end 'spiralling' grade inflation
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Damian Hinds
Dec 19, 2018
Rise in firsts ‘unexplained’ at most English universities
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Office for Students
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Dec 19, 2018
Telegraph view: Grade inflation at our universities has to end
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Dec 19, 2018
Policy Watch: OfS report on grade inflation
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Grade inflation
Dec 19, 2018
Universities face fines or being struck off if they keep handing out too many first-class degrees
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Office for Students
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Dec 19, 2018
The number of students getting first-class degrees has soared in recent years
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Office for Students
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Degrees
Dec 19, 2018
Universities told to end 'spiralling' grade inflation
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Office for Students
Quality assessment
Dec 19, 2018
Public confidence in higher education at risk amid 'spiralling' grade inflation at universities, regulator warns
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Office for Students
Dec 19, 2018
OfS analysis of changes in degree classifications
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Quality assessment
Dec 19, 2018
Grade inflation 'bigger at universities than colleges'
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Dec 19, 2018
University gives half its students a first-class degree
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Office for Students
Dec 19, 2018
Universities watchdog threatens fines over grade inflation
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Dec 19, 2018
Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 14 December
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Dec 14, 2018
Colleges told to improve access for HE students by 2038
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OfS
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Dec 13, 2018
How OfS will regulate access and participation
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Dec 13, 2018
Two universities setting targets to recruit more white male students
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OfS
Dec 8, 2018
Robust registration in the student interest
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Regulation
Dec 4, 2018
The OfS data strategy: a coming of age?
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Dec 3, 2018
The authority to close a university or bail it out?
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OfS
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Dec 3, 2018
Martin Coleman's speech on evolution or fundamental change to governance
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Nov 30, 2018
HE data: Friend or foe?
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Nov 30, 2018
Study Group gets Office for Students status
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Nov 28, 2018
Minister wants OfS ‘to do more’ on ‘poor-value’ courses
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Nov 27, 2018
Protect and survive: the story of Student Protection Plans
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Nov 26, 2018
Government 'could bail out top universities if in financial danger'
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Oxbridge
OfS
Nov 23, 2018
Bailing out the universities
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OfS
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Nov 23, 2018
NAO to review why thousands of apprentices are going unregulated
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Nov 17, 2018
English university given £900k emergency loan by regulator
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Nov 16, 2018
In the news 16 November 2018
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Nov 16, 2018
University given £1m bailout from watchdog
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Nov 16, 2018
Another hole in the regulatory bucket
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Nov 12, 2018
‘Falling through the cracks’: thousands of apprenticeships going unregulated
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Nov 9, 2018
Failing universities will not be bailed out, higher education regulator says
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Nov 6, 2018
English regulator ‘will not bail out’ struggling universities
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Nov 6, 2018
UCU response to regulator's refusal to bail out universities
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Nov 6, 2018
Wonkhe Weekly – E7 Fees, bailouts and apps
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Augar review
OfS
Failing universities
Nov 6, 2018
Uncomfortable ideas part of learning, says regulator
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Nov 6, 2018
We won't bail out failing universities, says higher education regulator
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Nov 6, 2018
Thousands of uni students risk losing course fees due to delays at new regulator
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Nov 6, 2018
Government's universities regulator should step in to curb sky-high bosses' pay, say MPs
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Nov 5, 2018
Scale of student anxiety and distress is worry for us all, says universities chief
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OfS
Oct 31, 2018
Choice decisions
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OfS
Oct 19, 2018
Survey of students on postgraduate taught courses
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Oct 15, 2018
Policy Watch: The Office for Students on free speech
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Oct 12, 2018
New £6m fund to help graduates find work near home
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OfS
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Oct 5, 2018
OfS: Lack of diversity among degree apprentices
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OfS
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Oct 4, 2018
Registration delays bring recruitment worries on English campuses
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Oct 2, 2018
Nicola Dandridge: Universities must embrace diversity
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OfS
Sep 23, 2018
Office for Students publishes new Prevent monitoring framework
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OfS
Regulation
Sep 12, 2018
Information re non-executive appointments to DfE's public bodies: April 2018 - March 2019
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Sep 10, 2018
OfS to consult on regulation changes
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OfS
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Sep 7, 2018
Students need to work during holidays if they want to get a job, university regulator says
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OfS
Sep 7, 2018
English regulator plans shift to five-year access agreements
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OfS
Sep 7, 2018
OfS to consult on regulation changes
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OfS
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Sep 7, 2018
Universities expected to set tougher targets in Office for Students access shake up
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Sep 7, 2018
Top universities to face pressure over admissions
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Sep 7, 2018
Tough targets on poor students
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OfS
Sep 7, 2018
British universities could be closed unless they work harder to recruit more poor students
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OfS
Sep 6, 2018
OfS and UKRI sign collaboration agreement
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UKRI
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Sep 5, 2018
Transparency call as English regulator keeps key papers secret
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Exam boards
Sep 3, 2018
Higher education co-regulation: Where do we go from here?
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OfS
Aug 28, 2018
Growing fears about 'unconditional university offers as some students quit school
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Damian Hinds
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Aug 18, 2018
Russell Group complains they are 'forced to compete' for 'small pool' for bright, disadvantaged students
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Russell Group
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OfS
Aug 9, 2018
"Horizon shift" called for in access regulation
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Aug 8, 2018
English regulator poised to spread funding more thinly
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Aug 7, 2018
National Student Survey 2018 shows high satisfaction levels but still more to do
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NSS
National Student Survey
Jul 27, 2018
National Student Survey 2018
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National Student Survey
OfS
Jul 27, 2018
In the news 27 July 2018
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Jul 27, 2018
OfS publishes NSS results 2018
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National Student Survey
Jul 27, 2018
NSS2018 – feeling the heat?
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National Student Survey
Jul 27, 2018
Unconditional surrender. How far should OfS regulate admissions policy?
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OfS
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Jul 25, 2018
Oxbridge bursaries failing to attract poorer students
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Oxbridge
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OfS
Jul 20, 2018
Office for Students rewrites sector history
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OfS
Regulation
Jul 19, 2018
We won’t tolerate universities letting down students | Michael Barber
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Sir Michael Barber
OfS
Regulation
Jul 19, 2018
University watchdog calls for students to face up to ideas that make them uncomfortable
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Regulation
Sir Michael Barber
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Jul 18, 2018
Colleges urged to set ambitious targets for access to HE
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Jul 10, 2018
Nicola Dandridge: Higher Education is changing. That is why the work of the Office for Students is so vital
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OfS
Regulation
Jul 9, 2018
Pop-up podiatry schools put a spring in the step of healthcare courses
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OfS
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Jun 26, 2018
OfS response to UUK/NEON report on students’ financial concerns
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OfS
Jun 20, 2018
Unis must come clean on top pay
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OfS
Jun 19, 2018
Vice-chancellors must justify big pay packets to Office for Students watchdog
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OfS
Jun 19, 2018
England’s new provider unit likened to free school movement
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DfE
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Jun 19, 2018
MillionPlus comment on accounts direction issued by the Office for Students
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OfS
Jun 19, 2018
UCU responds to new Office for Students requirements on VC pay
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Jun 19, 2018
MillionPlus comment on the Public Accounts Committee’s Higher Education Market report
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Jun 15, 2018
Office for Students responds to Public Accounts Committee report on higher education
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Jun 15, 2018
Higher education market not working in interests of students or taxpayers
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OfS
Jun 15, 2018
‘No need to finish your A-levels,’ universities tell school pupils
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OfS
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Jun 13, 2018
Office for Students responds to the 2018 HEPI Student Academic Experience Survey
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OfS
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Jun 7, 2018
How the OfS will address value for money
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OfS
Value for money
Jun 6, 2018
Our manifesto conclusion by Diana Beech
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University access
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OfS
Regulation
Jun 6, 2018
Office for Students: new code on senior pay ‘a positive step’
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OfS
Jun 6, 2018
Manifesto idea #34: Gary Attle
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Jun 5, 2018
Manifesto idea #32: Justin Madders MP
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Social mobility
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Jun 4, 2018
Of values and value for money
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Value for money
OfS
Regulation
Jun 4, 2018
How OfS will address value for money
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OfS
Value for money
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Jun 3, 2018
Working towards a sector taxonomy of value
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Value for money
OfS
Regulation
Jun 3, 2018
Manifesto idea #30: Sonia Sodha
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OfS
Jun 1, 2018
Manifesto idea #29: Rosemary Bennett
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Disadvantaged students
OfS
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Jun 1, 2018
Manifesto idea #20: Sophie Heaton
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OfS
Regulation
May 24, 2018
Has the Office for Students got its thinking straight on governance?
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OfS
May 23, 2018
More students taking up postgraduate masters’ degrees
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OfS
Postgraduates
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May 18, 2018
Invitation to join committees at the Office for Students
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OfS
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May 17, 2018
Good use of data is central to protecting student interests
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Data protection
Regulation
OfS
May 15, 2018
Office for Students to allocate £1.5 billion for higher education in England for 2018-19
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OfS
Funding
May 11, 2018
Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: a manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation
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Access
Participation
Regulation
Chris Millward
May 10, 2018
Managing expectations and improving satisfaction
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Qualifications
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OfS
Vocational
May 8, 2018
Too many unconditional offers? Bring back university entrance exams | Gill Evans
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Entrance exams
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OfS
Regulation
UCAS
May 4, 2018
The Office for Students’ business plan
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OfS
Regulation
Apr 30, 2018
A 'Flying Start' to university study
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OfS
Curriculum
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Apr 24, 2018
Minister supports FE representation at Office for Students
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Regulation
Apr 24, 2018
Labour bid to block powers of controversial Office for Students
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Politics
OfS
Regulation
Apr 23, 2018
Labour bid to block regulatory powers for Office for Students
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Politics
Regulation
Apr 23, 2018
We’ll force a vote on the tangled knot of interests in the Office for Students
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OfS
Regulation
Apr 23, 2018
Universities receive £480,000 to tackle religion-based hate crime and harassment
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Apr 17, 2018
How can the higher education sector regain the educational high ground?
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Post-18
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OfS
Regulation
Apr 13, 2018
Universities urged not to dumb down
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OfS
Apr 13, 2018
The Office for Students responds to University and College Union pensions ballot
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Apr 11, 2018
How much burden does the OfS registration process bring?
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OfS
Regulation
Apr 10, 2018
Reading the small print – OfS terms and conditions of funding
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OfS
Regulation
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Apr 8, 2018
SoS writes to Nicola Dandridge (OfS) delegating Prevent monitoring duty
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Prevent
Apr 1, 2018
Rule change for colleges seeking degree awarding powers
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Colleges
DAPs
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OfS
Mar 29, 2018
Let’s talk about social value for money
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OfS
TEF
REF
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Mar 27, 2018
University watchdog's regret over Toby Young appointment
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Sir Michael Barber
OfS
Toby Young
Mar 27, 2018
Chair of Office for Students challenged over lack of FE board members
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OfS
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Colleges
Mar 27, 2018
‘They’re trying to take away our rights.’ How much power should students have?
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OfS
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Mar 27, 2018
UK Quality Code 2.0
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OfS
UKSCQA
Mar 27, 2018
Serious barriers limit free speech in universities
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Prevent
OfS
Mar 27, 2018
Chair of Office for Students questioned
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Regulation
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Sir Michael Barber
Graduate earnings
Mar 26, 2018
Opening up opportunity: social mobility and the Higher Education and Research Act (2017)
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HERA
OfS
Regulation
Mar 23, 2018
Correspondence from the Secretary of State regarding the board of the Office for Students (pdf)
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OfS
Damian Hinds
Education Committee
Mar 23, 2018
Correspondence to the Secretary of State regarding the board of the Office for Students (pdf)
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OfS
Damian Hinds
Education Committee
Mar 23, 2018
Chair of Office for Students questioned
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OfS
Regulation
Education Committee
Sir Michael Barber
Tuition fees
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Mar 23, 2018
Education Committee asks for more representation of FE and apprenticeships on the OfS board
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Damian Hinds
Robert Halfon
Education Committee
Office for Students
OfS
Mar 23, 2018
Office for Students: monetary and financial penalties
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OfS
Regulation
Finances
Mar 22, 2018
Lessons from regulatory change: what education wonks can learn from health wonks
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Regulation
OfS
Mar 20, 2018
University regulator is ‘Office for State Control’, say critics
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OfS
Regulation
Mar 20, 2018
The regulatory challenges for university executives and governors
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Regulation
Leaders
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OfS
Mar 19, 2018
All Change - challenge or opportunity?
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Training
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Colleges
T-levels
Technical education
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OfS
Careers strategy
Mar 16, 2018
Tuition fee value
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Tuition fees
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OfS
Regulation
Student satisfaction
Mar 14, 2018
Tuition fee value for money: 'I feel ripped off'
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Tuition fees
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OfS
Regulation
Post-18
Student satisfaction
Mar 14, 2018
‘Shocking’ that students don’t get enough info about costs
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OfS
Tuition fees
Student accommodation
Textbooks
Finances
Disadvantaged students
Bursaries
Mar 13, 2018
'Debt for life': only 38% of students say tuition fees are good value
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Student debt
Tuition fees
OfS
Value for money
Regulation
Student finance
Loan repayment
Mar 13, 2018
Staff and students in struggle: One approach to reform
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Reforms
OfS
Regulation
Mar 13, 2018
Building on social capital
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Drop-out rates
Student retention
OfS
Student support
Mar 12, 2018
Passing the regulatory baton from HEFCE to OfS
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Regulation
HEFCE
OfS
Mar 12, 2018
'Chancer's charter' persists in alternative higher education sector
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OfS
Malpractice
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Drop-out rates
Mar 7, 2018
Where’s the minister’s vision focused?
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Sam Gyimah
Regulation
OfS
Mar 7, 2018
The public accounts committee report on alternative providers
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PAC
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Regulation
OfS
DfE
Mar 7, 2018
‘Dear Michael Barber’ – the letter of the law
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Sir Michael Barber
OfS
Regulation
Mar 6, 2018
Don’t let this university wrecking government masquerade as reformers | Peter Scott
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OfS
Regulation
Reforms
Post-18
Reviews
Funding
Mar 6, 2018
How the Office for Students will drive change
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OfS
Regulation
Widening participation
University access
Disadvantaged students
Mar 6, 2018
Getting in and getting on: access and participation in the Office for Students
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OfS
Access
Participation
Regulation
Mar 5, 2018
The University Show – Season 1 Episode 4 – Regulation
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OfS
Regulation
Mar 4, 2018
Office for Students could transform the higher education sector
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OfS
Regulation
Post-18
Funding
Reviews
Government
Mar 2, 2018
Winds of Change: A framework for autonomy or control?
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OfS
Regulation
Mar 2, 2018
Office for Students could transform the higher education sector
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OfS
Regulation
Student finance
Funding
Mar 2, 2018
Celebrating progress in fair access
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Access
OfS
Regulation
Mar 1, 2018
The office a bit more for students
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Regulation
OfS
Participation
Funding
Value for money
Mar 1, 2018
OfS regulatory framework for higher education: AoC responds
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OfS
Regulation
Colleges
Feb 28, 2018
More data does not always mean more accountability
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OfS
Feb 28, 2018
Toby Young's OfS appointment was questionable – minister
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Toby Young
OfS
Government
Sam Gyimah
Feb 27, 2018
Government ‘looking at the options’ for its New Schools Network support
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New Schools Network
Toby Young
OfS
Feb 27, 2018
Meddling' Tory ministers savaged over appointment of scandal-hit student tsar Toby Young
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Feb 27, 2018
University watchdog ‘failed to vet Toby Young thoroughly for post’
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Feb 27, 2018
'Avoidable mistakes made in appointment of Toby Young'
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Feb 27, 2018
Toby Young’s appointment reinforces our worst fears about establishment hypocrisy | Gaby Hinsliff
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Feb 27, 2018
Avoidable mistakes’ made in Toby Young vetting process, inquiry finds
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Feb 27, 2018
Ministers meddled in Toby Young getting OfS role, report finds
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Feb 27, 2018
Overpaid university bosses could see pay slashed by Office for Students
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Feb 26, 2018
Embattled universities face limits on powers
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Feb 26, 2018
The role of students in regulation, notes from Scandinavia
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Feb 14, 2018
As systems diverge, we must remember our responsibilities across UK HE
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Feb 12, 2018
There is only so much uncertainty universities can take | Alistair Jarvis
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Feb 12, 2018
A beginner’s guide to the English regulatory transitional period
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Feb 12, 2018
How will OfS do policy when its levers are broken?
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Feb 12, 2018
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Feb 9, 2018
Elite universities attack ‘disproportionate’ plans to force them to publish salaries of staff earning more than £150,000
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Feb 9, 2018
How the OfS student panel is taking shape
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Feb 7, 2018
Opportunity and risk: universities prepare for an uncertain future
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Feb 7, 2018
Social mobility must underpin higher education
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Feb 5, 2018
Struggling universities will be shut down, not saved – it's not fair for students
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Feb 5, 2018
The end of history? The future of regulation in England
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Feb 2, 2018
Happy new regulatory regime, part 2
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Feb 1, 2018
The hallmarks of a successful university
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Jan 31, 2018
2VCs on ... what does 2018 look like for universities?
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Jan 31, 2018
Fears of university closures after removal of safety net
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Jan 30, 2018
In the news: 26 January
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Jan 26, 2018
Free speech codes can be "too complicated", watchdog leader says
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Jan 24, 2018
Office for Students is in its infancy | Letters
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Jan 23, 2018
Free speech at universities: Human Rights Committee question the new Office for Students and Charity Commission
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Jan 23, 2018
Office for Students? It’s the Office Against Students and it is not going to last | Andrew Adonis
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Jan 23, 2018
Hearts must have courage for the changing of the WP guards
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Jan 22, 2018
War on vice-Chancellor pay is revenge for universities’ stance on Brexit, higher education leaders say
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Jan 18, 2018
Top DfE official admits FE not represented on Office of Students board
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Office for Students board must have FE representation
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Jan 16, 2018
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Jan 16, 2018
Sir Keith Burnett: why we need a commission for higher education
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Jan 14, 2018
Tories to rethink tuition fees within months
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Jan 14, 2018
In the news: 12 January
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Jan 12, 2018
Three quarters of graduates get 2:1 or firsts as regulator issues warning to universities to halt grade inflation
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Jan 11, 2018
‘Serious failing’: inquiry to scrutinise Toby Young’s OfS appointment
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Jan 11, 2018
Toby Young is gone. But he was the least of universities’ problems | Letters
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Jan 11, 2018
Hughes criticises DfE for claiming university regulator has FE representation
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Jan 10, 2018
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Jan 10, 2018
Toby Young still has his defenders, after he quits and apologises for 'ill-judged and just plain wrong' remarks
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Jan 10, 2018
Knives out for disgraced Toby Young over role at free schools charity
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Jan 10, 2018
Student Benjamin Hunt unfit for regulator, says Vince Cable
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Jan 10, 2018
UCU comment on resignation of Toby Young
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Jan 9, 2018
NEU comment on resignation of Toby Young
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Jan 9, 2018
Jexit leaves a mixed legacy in higher education
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Jan 9, 2018
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Jan 9, 2018
Jo Johnson loses job as universities minister after botched Toby Young appointment
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young: how barrage of nudges made OfS position untenable
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young quits role on universities watchdog after storm over offensive tweets
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Jan 9, 2018
NUS president Shakira Martin the 'antidote' replacement for Toby young at universities watchdog, MP says
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from university regulator
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from universities regulator: 'Forced out by Twitter mob'
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash
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Jan 9, 2018
Who is Toby Young and why has he resigned from universities watchdog amid a Twitter row?
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Jan 9, 2018
Young's appointment was a serious mistake, at least he has realised - Cable
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young quits government education role to avoid ‘distraction’
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from Office for Students regulator with apology for sexist tweets and remarks
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from universities regulator role over string of sexist and lewd tweets
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young quits Office for Students to ‘get on’ with free schools work
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Jan 9, 2018
Who is Toby Young? Journalist and free schools campaigner whose appointment to university watchdog role sparked controversy
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from universities regulator
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young quits role on universities watchdog after Andrea Leadsom sparks Cabinet row over his ‘unacceptable’ tweets
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young quits government education role
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Jan 9, 2018
The universities’ Faustian pact of 2010 gave us Toby Young | Peter Scott
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Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young resigns from Office for Students regulator with apology for sexist tweets and remarks
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Jan 9, 2018
New university watchdog in free speech storm after recruiting adviser who lobbied against a former Archbishop of Canterbury over gay marriage
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Jan 9, 2018
New universities regulator comes into force
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Jan 8, 2018
Urgent question on appointment of Toby Young: 8 January 2018
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Jan 8, 2018
Student panel to advise university watchdog on free speech appoints panel members who campaigned for 'no platforming' policies
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Jan 8, 2018
Tory MPs urged to go on offensive to deflect criticism of Toby Young
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Jan 8, 2018
Toby Young's appointment leaves new regulator 'in tatters', says Labour
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Jan 8, 2018
New Student Panel appointed to advise Office for Students
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Jan 8, 2018
A beginner’s guide to the Office for Students
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Jan 8, 2018
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Jan 8, 2018
Toby Young put on notice over Twitter slurs
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Jan 8, 2018
Theresa May warns Toby Young further 'distasteful' tweets could see him sacked from universities role
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Jan 7, 2018
Jon Ashworth calls on Theresa May to sack ‘disgusting, offensive, sexist’ Toby Young
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Jan 7, 2018
May condemns Toby Young's comments but backs him keeping OfS post
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Jan 7, 2018
It’s time to rethink Toby Young’s appointment
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Jan 7, 2018
In the news: 5 January
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Jan 5, 2018
Shadow ministers demand Theresa May 'ditches' Toby Young from university role
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Jan 5, 2018
Toby Young: what is ‘progressive eugenics’ and what does it have to do with meritocracy?
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Jan 5, 2018
Why 'impulsive, vain' Toby Young wants us to take him seriously
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Jan 5, 2018
Ditch Toby Young from watchdog board, top Labour figures tell May
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Jan 5, 2018
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 5 January 2018
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Jan 5, 2018
Teachers' union joins criticism of Toby Young appointment
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Jan 4, 2018
UCU comment on Toby Young appointment to the Office for Students board
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Jan 4, 2018
Office for Students consultation responses
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Jan 4, 2018
Who is Toby Young? Free schools campaigner and journalist whose appointment to university watchdog role sparked controversy
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Jan 4, 2018
What Toby Young outcry means for the new university regulator
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Jan 4, 2018
Toby Young’s new job ‘will undermine’ efforts to tackle sexism in schools
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Jan 4, 2018
Toby Young's 'sexist' comments are 'unacceptable', union tells Greening
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Jan 4, 2018
Free speech works both ways – as Toby Young is finding out | Dawn Foster
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Jan 4, 2018
Department for Education defends Toby Young appointment
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young appointment adds to the pressure on universities | Letters
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Jan 3, 2018
The Tories are out of step with modern life – and Toby Young shows it | Ian Birrell
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Jan 3, 2018
Sexist tweets by university watchdog divide Tories
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Jan 3, 2018
Boris Johnson backs Toby Young in storm over his appointment to universities watchdog
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Jan 3, 2018
Labour demands Toby Young is sacked from new unis role over 'homophobic and misogynistic' comments
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Jan 3, 2018
New universities regulator comes into force
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young says he's facing 'confected outrage' over universities watchdog appointment because he's for Brexit
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young reveals regret over comments but defends university regulator role
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young deletes thousands of tweets amid row over appointment to university role
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young regrets 'politically incorrect' comments
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young quotes on breasts, eugenics and working-class people
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Jan 3, 2018
Boris Johnson defends the decision to put Toby Young on a new university watchdog
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young's “caustic wit” isn’t funny and it sends a terrible message on sexual harassment
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Jan 3, 2018
Higher education – trends in 2018
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Jan 3, 2018
Toby Young is ideal man for university watchdog, says Boris Johnson
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Jan 3, 2018
Leftwingers want to topple me, says free school chief Toby Young
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Jan 3, 2018
We need outsiders to keep an eye on our universities
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Jan 3, 2018
Doubts cast on DfE claims of Toby Young's qualifications for watchdog post
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Jan 2, 2018
Marsden: Office for Students board a 'missed opportunity’ for FE
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Jan 2, 2018
Giving Toby Young this job shows that the Tories care only for their own | Faiza Shaheen
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Jan 2, 2018
Toby Young's appointment to university watchdog criticised
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Jan 2, 2018
Free school pioneer Toby Young appointed to university watchdog Office for Students
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Jan 2, 2018
Backlash over appointment of ‘Tory cheerleader’ Toby Young to university watchdog
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Jan 1, 2018
Toby Young appointment to board of government's new universities watchdog prompts backlash
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Jan 1, 2018
New universities regulator comes into force
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Jan 1, 2018
Why giving a job to Toby Young shows Jo Johnson's university regulator is doomed from the start
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Jan 1, 2018
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Jan 1, 2018
Universities stifling ‘free speech’ could face fines, warns minister
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Dec 26, 2017
Free speech in the liberal university
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Dec 26, 2017
EPI response to inquiry on 'Value for money in higher education’
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Dec 20, 2017
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Dec 18, 2017
Widen thinking as well as participation
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Dec 18, 2017
A bushel and a peck – OfS subscription fees again
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Dec 18, 2017
OfS should take a proportionate approach
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Dec 18, 2017
The industrial strategy highlights OfS’s contradictions
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Dec 13, 2017
How much will OfS cost institutions?
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Dec 13, 2017
'Link pay of vice chancellors to the size of their university'
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Dec 13, 2017
Link pay to university size, says Office for Students watchdog
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Dec 13, 2017
Vice-chancellor pay should be linked to university size, head of the new regulatory body says
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Dec 12, 2017
An anatomy of judgement: how do ‘snowflakes’ think?
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Dec 12, 2017
New regulator warns universities they face crackdown over pay
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Dec 12, 2017
Shine a light on racism and discrimination in further education
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Dec 12, 2017
Vice-chancellors should take a pay cut if their universities perform poorly, Office for Students chair suggests
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Nov 24, 2017
Vice-chancellors' pay that is 'out of kilter' will be dealt with – regulator
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Nov 24, 2017
New student watchdog boss vows to end curbs on free speech
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Nov 23, 2017
Students should be made to feel 'uncomfortable' so they can learn, chair of the Office for Students says
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Nov 23, 2017
2VCs on ... are university degree models stuck in the past?
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Nov 22, 2017
Validation arrangements continue to be risky business
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Nov 20, 2017
I fought for free speech on campus – but I don’t agree with Tory plans to safeguard it
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Nov 17, 2017
Freedom of speech and the Office for Students
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Nov 16, 2017
The cost of everything and the value of nothing
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Nov 16, 2017
Do 'no platform' policies threaten free speech at uni? Students share their views
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Oct 26, 2017
'No platform' and safe spaces aren't the real dangers to freedom of speech
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Oct 25, 2017
How much can universities really influence the regulatory framework?
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Oct 23, 2017
Power games over HE regulation and funding will have lasting consequences
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Oct 22, 2017
(Not) securing student success?
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Oct 21, 2017
In the news: 20 October 2017
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Oct 20, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017
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Feb 16, 2017
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