Phase one of apprenticeship quality assurance transition concludes
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  • May 12, 2022
Online university lectures to be checked for quality
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  • Apr 12, 2022
OfS has a new priorities letter from ministers
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  • Mar 31, 2022
Report: Defining quality
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  • Mar 17, 2022
New report unpacks the meaning of quality in a complex and rapidly changing higher education sector
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  • Mar 17, 2022
London launches VIP adult education quality mark
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  • Mar 4, 2022
New OfS conditions to raise quality bar and tackle grade inflation
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  • Mar 2, 2022
OfS knows best on quality and standards – what could go wrong?
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Time to ban the graduate only job? The era of the indiscriminate expansion of higher education is at an end
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  • Jan 24, 2022
The university courses in the Government’s sights for not meeting new ‘quality standards’
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  • Jan 21, 2022
Wine tasters, super crunchers and King Canute – what do they tell us about the new regulatory burdens from the OfS?
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  • Jan 21, 2022
OfS propose to set minimum thresholds for student progression and outcomes - AoC responds
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  • Jan 20, 2022
Proposals to reform higher education will help protect students
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HE reforms Value for money Quality assurance Graduate outcomes
  • Jan 20, 2022
What's a degree worth?
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  • Jan 20, 2022
All UK universities will soon carry a standards rating, too many have ripped off students
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  • Jan 20, 2022
UCU response to Office for Students proposals on 'poor quality courses'
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  • Jan 20, 2022
Response to new OfS consultations on student outcomes and teaching excellence
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  • Jan 20, 2022
OfS sets out plans to crack down on poor quality courses
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  • Jan 20, 2022
OfS publishes plans to punish English universities for poor value for money
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  • Jan 20, 2022
The B3 bear returns to hunt down Mickey Mouse (courses)
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  • Jan 20, 2022
Crack down on ‘poor quality’ courses announced by Office for Students
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  • Jan 20, 2022
Fines to crack down on 'Mickey Mouse' university degrees with penalties of up to £500,000 for courses failing to deliver jobs
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  • Jan 20, 2022
Six in 10 graduates must get professional jobs, universities told
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  • Jan 20, 2022
Universities face ranking system if they fail to satisfy students
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  • Jan 20, 2022
University regulator cracks down on ‘poor quality’ courses in England
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  • Jan 19, 2022
Large online educators face £10k bill for Ofsted accreditation visits
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Ofqual and the Institute are united across their distinctive roles
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Ofqual IfATE Quality assurance
  • Sep 2, 2021
Good universities have nothing to fear from the OfS’s quality crackdown
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Office for Students Regulation Quality assurance
  • Jul 27, 2021
OfS: English universities must ‘equip students with skills’ to succeed
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Quality assurance Education standards
  • Jul 20, 2021
Ofsted: "Long way to go" on apprenticeship quality
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Apprenticeship training Quality assurance
  • Jun 8, 2021
Government and HE: The price of everything and the value of nothing
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  • Jun 7, 2021
Levelling up: How we can make training world-class
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  • Jun 1, 2021
Legal apprentice provider penalised by watchdog
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  • May 28, 2021
City & Guilds fined £50K over ‘unfit’ qualifications
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City & Guilds Qualifications Level 3 Quality assurance
  • May 27, 2021
Proceed with caution: new metric will ‘inevitably’ aid regulation
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Student outcomes Regulation Quality assurance
  • May 19, 2021
Plan to legislate on ‘low-quality’ courses alarms sector
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Quality assurance
  • May 17, 2021
Schools sought for rapid Covid test ‘quality assurance exercise’
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  • May 10, 2021
Deadlines confirmed for second phase of EQA transition
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  • Apr 30, 2021
Apprenticeship quality remains ‘troubling’, says Ofsted chief
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  • Apr 28, 2021
GCSEs 2021: Ofqual 'conscious' of teacher workload
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  • Apr 27, 2021
Ofqual boss: Submitting grade check samples ‘should not take too long’
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  • Apr 27, 2021
Ofqual confirms detail on submitting grades and evidence for this year’s GCSE, AS and A level grades
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  • Apr 27, 2021
It turns out teachers aren’t being trusted on grades
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  • Apr 23, 2021
GCSEs 2021: Heads condemn 'scandalous' grade check plan
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  • Apr 23, 2021
‘Frankly scandalous’: ASCL challenges Ofqual over student work checks
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  • Apr 23, 2021
GCSEs and A-levels 2021: How Ofqual will police schools' grading
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  • Apr 22, 2021
GCSE and A-levels: Ofqual reveals quality assurance evidence requirements
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  • Apr 22, 2021
Chartered College ‘blueprint’ proposes national CPD quality badge
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CPD Quality assurance Chartered College of Teaching
  • Apr 14, 2021
A flexible and supportive approach to reforming EQA
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EQA Quality assurance Apprentice assessment
  • Mar 4, 2021
Quality and standards in higher education
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Education standards Quality assurance
  • Jan 27, 2021
Behind the news: How a company illegally marketed a 14-day ‘apprenticeship’, and what happened next
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Apprenticeship training Quality assurance
  • Dec 11, 2020
OfS will tackle pockets of low quality higher education provision
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  • Dec 2, 2020
The further adventures of the UK’s worst higher education courses
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Quality assurance Value for money
  • Nov 30, 2020
To improve quality assessment we should bring back subject review
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  • Nov 23, 2020
This crackdown on Mickey Mouse courses at university is well timed
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Value for money Quality assurance
  • Nov 20, 2020
Quality checks in HE ‘being done on the cheap’, says thinktank
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Quality assurance Value for money
  • Nov 19, 2020
Consultation on regulating quality and standards in higher education
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Quality assurance Value for money
  • Nov 17, 2020
Universities could be fined up to £500,000 for running 'Mickey Mouse' courses in crackdown on degrees
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  • Nov 17, 2020
OfS will tackle pockets of low quality higher education provision
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  • Nov 17, 2020
OfS consults on minimum outcomes in every subject – as the B3 bear hunts down Mickey Mouse
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  • Nov 17, 2020
Colleges to face tougher regulations when offering HE
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Regulation Tertiary education Quality assurance Value for money
  • Nov 17, 2020
Universities could face sanctions if they allow quality to slip
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  • Nov 17, 2020
England’s higher education regulator to ‘raise quality bar’
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  • Nov 17, 2020
Universities could be fined for poor quality courses as watchdog vows to 'stamp out' bad practice
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  • Nov 17, 2020
Universities that offer Mickey Mouse degrees could be hit with £500,000 fines
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  • Nov 17, 2020
English universities plan charter to tackle ‘low-quality’ courses
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  • Nov 16, 2020
Reviewing and proving the value of degrees
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  • Nov 16, 2020
Universities determined to review and prove value of degrees
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  • Nov 16, 2020
Vice-Chancellors to launch a crack down on 'low quality' degrees
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Quality assurance Value for money
  • Nov 15, 2020
Changes to external quality assurance for end-point assessment organisations
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  • Nov 13, 2020
First wave of EQA transitions announced
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Apprenticeship assessment Quality assurance End point assessments Ofqual
  • Oct 28, 2020
The 68 apprenticeship standards to be overseen by Ofqual from November revealed
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  • Oct 28, 2020
Vocational qualifications: Adaptation proposals and quality assurance activities for 2020/21
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  • Oct 26, 2020
Apprentice quality assurance charges to end from October
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EQAs Quality assurance End point assessments
  • Sep 18, 2020
Apprenticeship assessment oversight change was needed as Ofqual has the regulatory levers to enforce changes
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  • Aug 6, 2020
Next steps announced for a simplified EQA system
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EQA Quality assurance Apprentice assessment
  • Aug 4, 2020
Ofqual and OfS to quality assure apprenticeships
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  • Aug 4, 2020
External quality assurance of apprenticeships - expanded role for Ofqual confirmed
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Ofqual Apprentice assessment EQA Quality assurance
  • Aug 4, 2020
Confirmed: Exams watchdog to takeover apprenticeship assessment quality checks
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  • Aug 4, 2020
Institute reviewing responses to consultation on future of EQA
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EQA Quality assurance
  • Jul 3, 2020
Assessment: Colleges set up internal quality panels
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Coronavirus Assessments Quality assurance
  • May 14, 2020
Closing dates approaching for EQA and funding consultations
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EQA Quality assurance
  • May 6, 2020
Institute consultations on funding and EQA extended by six weeks
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  • Mar 26, 2020
AELP draft response to EQA consultation
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Quality assurance EQA
  • Mar 26, 2020
Apprenticeship funding and quality assurance consultations extended by 6 weeks
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  • Mar 26, 2020
Coronavirus: IfATE consultations extended by six weeks
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  • Mar 26, 2020
Consultation launches on external quality assurance reforms
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EQA Quality assurance
  • Feb 27, 2020
External quality assurance of apprenticeships – an expanded role for Ofqual
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  • Feb 27, 2020
Ofqual win: Employers to lose ownership of quality assuring apprentice assessments
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  • Feb 27, 2020
External quality assurance charges begin
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EQA Quality assurance
  • Dec 17, 2019
The things we lost when we made quality about outcomes
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  • Oct 20, 2019
A roadmap through the worlds of quality assurance and student engagement
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  • Oct 7, 2019
Skills for Care quits official quality assurance role for apprenticeships
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  • Aug 27, 2019
The new head of the IfATE must address the quality assurance conundrum
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Quality assurance
  • Jul 17, 2019
IfATE delays controversial £40 per apprentice fee
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  • Jul 16, 2019
IfA blasted for introduction of ‘unfair’ apprenticeship fee
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  • Jul 3, 2019
New framework sets the standard for external quality assurance
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  • Jun 26, 2019
Apprenticeship quango to introduce secret grading of assessment organisations
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  • Jun 26, 2019
Apprenticeships quango reveals extra £40 per learner charge
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  • Jun 25, 2019
IfA to ‘optimise’ apprenticeship EQA system
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IfA EQA Quality assurance
  • Jun 14, 2019
EQA contract award
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Apprenticeship quango tender for quality assurance won by incumbent
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Consultation on Quality Assurance Agency fees
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  • Apr 8, 2019
Short-term fix found for gap in apprenticeship quality assurance arrangements
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  • Apr 2, 2019
Quality Strategy sets out best practice benchmarks for apprenticeships
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  • Mar 21, 2019
External Quality Assurance (EQA) starts to get to grips with the building momentum
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  • Mar 18, 2019
‘Crazy’ quality assurance system for apprenticeships should be handed over to Ofqual says Halfon
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  • Mar 18, 2019
Ofqual rules out tendering to take over apprenticeship quality assurance
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  • Mar 12, 2019
Government agency in quick search for ‘interim’ arrangements to avoid gap in apprenticeship quality assurance
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  • Feb 15, 2019
FE bosses criticise ‘ridiculous variability’ of external quality assurance charges
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  • Feb 8, 2019
The Institute for Apprenticeships appoints Paul Cadman as permanent chair for Quality Assurance Committee
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IfA Quality assurance
  • Dec 7, 2018
IfA appoints Dame Asha replacement as chair of subcommittee
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IfA Quality assurance
  • Dec 7, 2018
Government textbook quality mark ‘could ease workload’
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  • Sep 30, 2018
IfA and Open Awards reach deal on EQA contract extension
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  • Sep 27, 2018
IfA close to losing external quality assurer as contract expires at end of the week
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IfA Quality assurance Apprenticeships
  • Sep 25, 2018
Effective quality assurance is key to Ofsted success in the FE sector
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Ofsted Quality assurance
  • Sep 7, 2018
External quality assurance of end-point assessments
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  • Aug 29, 2018
Quality assurance, with a Welsh accent
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  • Jun 28, 2018
External quality assurance of end-point assessments
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  • May 16, 2018
External quality assurance of end-point assessments
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  • May 1, 2018
IfA in talks with charity to take on EQA role after People 1st goes bust
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  • Apr 27, 2018
Bitter war of words intensifies between AELP and IfA
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  • Apr 17, 2018
‘Last resort’ IfA quality assures almost half of all apprenticeship standards
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  • Apr 13, 2018
External quality assurance of end-point assessments
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  • Apr 12, 2018
OECD: Apprenticeships in England lack 'quality assurance'
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  • Apr 11, 2018
External quality assurance of end-point assessments
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  • Jan 24, 2018
Extension to the initial teacher education, and assessment and quality assurance qualifications
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  • Jan 23, 2018
Extension to the initial teacher education, and assessment and quality assurance qualifications
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Ofqual’s approach to external quality assurance
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  • Dec 1, 2017