Consultation outcome: Regulating independent educational institutions
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  • May 6, 2022
What happens when providers run out of money?
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  • Apr 11, 2022
‘No university immune’ as UK ministers order on-site inspections
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  • Apr 11, 2022
Further reductions in the burden of OfS regulation
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  • Apr 8, 2022
Time to get serious about data burden
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  • Apr 4, 2022
OfS has a new priorities letter from ministers
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  • Mar 31, 2022
Zahawi orders OfS to investigate ‘larger’ universities on quality
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Office for Students Regulation Quality assessment
  • Mar 31, 2022
Children and families minister to look at regulation of childcare sector with visit to France
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Regulation Will Quince
  • Mar 29, 2022
UUK’s Code of Practice on fair admissions is welcome, but there are deeper issues
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  • Mar 28, 2022
Task force aims to cut data burden on English sector
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  • Mar 28, 2022
28 things we learned from February’s OfS board papers
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  • Mar 25, 2022
Setting our future direction
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  • Mar 23, 2022
OfS launches new strategy targeting quality and standards
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Mar 23, 2022
Is OfS asleep or woke at the wheel?
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Mar 22, 2022
Why all the silence on higher education provider information?
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Mar 22, 2022
How have the TEF and the B3 bear landed in universities?
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  • Mar 16, 2022
OfS needs to work on building trust over its plans for regulation of quality
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Mar 16, 2022
English regulator’s quality plans ‘lack transparency’, v-cs claim
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  • Mar 15, 2022
Who paid the price for provider survival during the pandemic?
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  • Mar 9, 2022
What did ministers intend on quality and standards?
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Quality Standards Regulation
  • Mar 7, 2022
Regulating in the interests of students
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Regulation
  • Mar 2, 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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Regulation Quality assurance Academic standards
  • Mar 2, 2022
Scotland: Universities wary of post-Covid powers
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Ofqual seeks views on regulatory approach for level 3 qualifications
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  • Feb 24, 2022
Secretary of State letter to Ofqual on level 3 qualifications
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  • Feb 24, 2022
How changes to TRA powers could impact teachers
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  • Feb 14, 2022
Awarding bodies’ report reveals rocketing cost of regulatory burden
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  • Feb 11, 2022
Why unchecked MAT growth means it's time for regulation
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Call for more powerful MAT regulator
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  • Feb 9, 2022
Evaluation supports participation
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  • Feb 9, 2022
Single funding bodies would heal UK’s HE-FE divide, says report
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Regulation Funding bodies
  • Feb 7, 2022
OfS, TEF and student outcomes
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  • Feb 4, 2022
Parents in England who fail to register home schooling could face sanctions
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Consultation outcome: Children not in school
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Plans for register of home educated children hang on extra funding
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  • Feb 3, 2022
DfE confirms plans for elective home education register
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Further plans to level up opportunities for every child
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Register of homeschooled children in England to be created amid concerns about rise in pupils not in school
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Councils to record which children are being home schooled
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  • Feb 3, 2022
New register for children not in school to be launched
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Home schooling register to track each child’s education
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  • Feb 3, 2022
Susan Lapworth appointed interim chief executive of OfS
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  • Feb 2, 2022
‘Virtually all’ universities risk OfS sanction under new rules
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  • Feb 1, 2022
Will the Office for Students’ proposals bake in disadvantage?
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  • Jan 28, 2022
Previously on… value, quality, and teaching excellence policy and politics
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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
Response to new OfS consultations on student outcomes and teaching excellence
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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
How OfS will construct indicators for regulation
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Regulation Graduate outcomes
  • 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
University regulator cracks down on ‘poor quality’ courses in England
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  • Jan 19, 2022
21 things we learned from December’s OfS Board Papers
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Jan 14, 2022
Ofsted chief calls for home-schooling register
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  • Jan 12, 2022
New UK rules on international research partnerships now in force
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Research partnerships Regulation
  • Jan 5, 2022
Exploring the impact of regulatory change on staff
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  • Dec 17, 2021
A Christmas data carol from OfS
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Data collection Regulation
  • Dec 16, 2021
Call for ban on placing NI pupils in isolation
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Northern Ireland Restraint Isolation Seclusion Regulation
  • Dec 16, 2021
Northern Ireland: Minister suspends 'toxic' teaching body
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  • Dec 13, 2021
Rebooting the regulatory framework
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Regulation
  • Dec 7, 2021
Ofsted renews calls for elective home education register
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  • Dec 7, 2021
Further education still needs more effective governance
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Governance Regulation
  • Dec 5, 2021
TRAC review makes recommendations to reduce regulatory burden
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TRAC Regulation
  • Dec 3, 2021
OfS annual review emphasises importance of quality provision
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  • Dec 1, 2021
Christmas comes early as OfS leaves its annual under the tree
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Office for Students Regulation Annual review
  • Dec 1, 2021
‘More assertive’ OfS reassures universities on quality plans
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  • Dec 1, 2021
Universities told they must act on standards and abuse
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  • Dec 1, 2021
Review of TRAC 2021
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TRAC Regulation
  • Nov 30, 2021
Council has right to see home educated pupils’ work, court finds
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Home schooling Regulation
  • Nov 30, 2021
Diving into SLC provider level data
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Student Loans Company Regulation
  • Nov 26, 2021
Welsh tertiary regulator ‘could be model for England’
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  • Nov 25, 2021
Good regulation welcomes critical and robust challenge
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Regulation
  • Nov 19, 2021
Fair and appropriate regulation and monitoring
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Regulation Monitoring
  • Nov 18, 2021
Enabling social mobility means taking risks
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Social mobility Regulation
  • Nov 18, 2021
Should OfS worry about student welfare?
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Student welfare Regulation
  • Nov 17, 2021
Investigation into University of Sussex
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University of Sussex Free speech Academic freedom Regulation
  • Nov 16, 2021
24 things we learned from September’s OfS board papers
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Nov 16, 2021
English regulator investigates Sussex over Kathleen Stock exit
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  • Nov 16, 2021
Should the Office for Students obsess over outcomes?
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  • Nov 16, 2021
Where does regulation in the student interest go next?
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Regulation
  • Nov 15, 2021
Can OfS help level up the country?
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Levelling up Education recovery Regulation
  • Nov 15, 2021
The next few years of OfS will be the same, but harsher
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Regulation Office for Students
  • Nov 12, 2021
English regulator plans focus on quality ‘baselines’ and access
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  • Nov 11, 2021
English regulator plans focus on quality ‘baselines’ and access
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Regulation
  • Nov 11, 2021
The Free Speech Bill would have had no impact on the Stock case
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  • Nov 8, 2021
Education Secretary backs home education register
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Nadhim Zahawi Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Nov 3, 2021
Ofsted calls for stronger 'oversight' of large providers
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  • Nov 1, 2021
Ofsted calls for stronger 'oversight' of large providers
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Oversight Regulation
  • Nov 1, 2021
Ofsted calls for stronger oversight of large providers
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Oversight Regulation
  • Oct 29, 2021
How early years multiple providers work
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Early years Regulation
  • Oct 28, 2021
Ofsted calls for stronger oversight of early years multiple providers and social care groups
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  • Oct 28, 2021
Ofsted calls for stronger oversight of large providers
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  • Oct 28, 2021
Ofsted calls for greater regulatory oversight of large children’s home and childcare providers
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Ofsted Regulation Oversight
  • Oct 28, 2021
Developing the regulatory toolkit
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Regulation
  • Oct 21, 2021
OfS issues new guidance on reportable events
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Regulation
  • Oct 21, 2021
Universities should take spelling and grammar into account when marking exams, England’s regulator says
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Spelling Grammar Punctuation Inclusive assessment Regulation Office for Students
  • Oct 7, 2021
Universities must not disregard poor spelling and grammar
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Regulation Spelling Grammar Punctuation Assessments
  • Oct 7, 2021
How will universities score in the great OfS spelling bee?
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Office for Students Regulation Spelling Grammar Punctuation Assessments
  • Oct 7, 2021
OfS threatens action on spelling and grammar standards
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Office for Students Regulation Spelling Punctuation Grammar
  • Oct 7, 2021
Twelve things we learned from July’s OfS board papers
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Regulation
  • Sep 30, 2021
Elective home education: Time for a register?
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  • Sep 20, 2021
Why students should have their say on how universities and colleges are regulated
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  • Sep 16, 2021
Ofsted chief backs home education register plan
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  • Sep 15, 2021
Regulatory bodies need substantial funding boost
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Regulation Funding
  • Sep 13, 2021
The sheer scale of change faced by the sector should concern us
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  • Aug 23, 2021
Ten things we learned from May’s OfS board papers
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Regulation
  • Aug 17, 2021
External examiners are in the last chance saloon
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Regulation External examiners
  • Aug 5, 2021
Introducing the OfS’s new proposals on quality and standards
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Regulation Quality Standards
  • Aug 2, 2021
Our proposals on home education need not be intrusive
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Home education Safeguarding Regulation
  • Aug 2, 2021
Sixteen things we learned from March and April’s OfS board papers
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Regulation Office for Students
  • Jul 30, 2021
NAHT comments on Education Select Committee’s call for home schooling register
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  • Jul 27, 2021
MPs call for 'essential' register of home-educated children
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  • Jul 27, 2021
Good universities have nothing to fear from the OfS’s quality crackdown
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  • Jul 27, 2021
National register needed to prevent home educated children missing out on education, MPs say
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Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Jul 27, 2021
MPs call for national register of home-educated children
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Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Jul 27, 2021
Unacceptable level of opaqueness over homeschooling, MPs say
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Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Jul 26, 2021
MPs: DfE's lack of homeschooling data is 'astonishing'
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Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Jul 26, 2021
MPs tell government to ‘shake up status quo’ on home education
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Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Jul 26, 2021
Government plans for home-education register criticised
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Home schooling Regulation
  • Jul 21, 2021
Are proposals on quality really in the student interest?
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Quality Regulation
  • Jul 20, 2021
Forcing homeschooling parents to sign up to a mandatory register risks treating them like sex offenders
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Home schooling Regulation Safeguarding
  • Jul 13, 2021
The days of FE provider autonomy are numbered
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Autonomy Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Regulation
  • Jun 30, 2021
Proposed new IfATE powers ‘strike the right balance’ with Ofqual, says Williamson
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IfATE Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Regulation
  • Jun 23, 2021
Why we need a single regulatory body in FE
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  • Jun 21, 2021
UK regulator probes Turnitin-Ouriginal deal
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  • Jun 13, 2021
Quality and standards: The road to more rigorous regulation
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  • Jun 10, 2021
Where was the work on student rights when they needed it the most?
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Regulation
  • May 21, 2021
OfS’ new metric will help students make sense of career prospects
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  • May 20, 2021
Proceed with caution: new metric will ‘inevitably’ aid regulation
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  • May 19, 2021
Balancing act: measuring our progress on minimising regulatory burden
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Regulation
  • May 18, 2021
New Covid rules: 8 questions that still need answers
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Coronavirus Covid safety Regulation
  • May 12, 2021
Warning against ‘politicised appointments’ as key OfS roles open
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Office for Students Regulation
  • May 10, 2021
Wales: Teacher claims Covid regulations make school 'look like prison'
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  • Apr 30, 2021
Make it compulsory! Union Flag must hang outside schools, demand MPs
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  • Apr 23, 2021
Fair procedures aren’t as easy to run as OfS thinks
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Sexual harassment Sexual misconduct Safeguarding Regulation
  • Apr 23, 2021
Building the regulatory picture: understanding student experiences and concerns
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Student experience Regulation
  • Apr 22, 2021
Elite universities vow to fight cancel culture to protect 'diversity of ideas'
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Free speech Censorship Cancel culture Regulation
  • Apr 22, 2021
UK universities urge government to be ‘proportionate’ in free speech legislation
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Free speech Regulation
  • Apr 22, 2021
Permitting staff-student relationships harms education
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Sexual misconduct Sexual harassment Intimate relationships Regulation
  • Apr 21, 2021
Online harms are different and the regulator needs to recognise this
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  • Apr 20, 2021
Universities could face fines if they fail to crack down on sexual harassment
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  • Apr 19, 2021
OfS tackling sexual abuse statement of expectations for colleges - AoC responds
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  • Apr 19, 2021
We need to take abuse on campus much more seriously than this
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  • Apr 19, 2021
English regulator demands ‘urgent action’ on sexual harassment
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  • Apr 19, 2021
English universities to be told to work harder to stop sexual misconduct
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  • Apr 16, 2021
Precarity robs students of agency and power
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  • Apr 16, 2021
Student watchdog's new head vows to end 'deeply unhealthy' university cancel culture
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  • Apr 9, 2021
New student watchdog chief pledges to end cancel culture
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  • Apr 8, 2021
Michael Barber: did Office for Students’ first chair deliver?
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  • Apr 8, 2021
If a provider is in trouble, who will take the force of the blow?
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Regulation
  • Apr 1, 2021
Protecting students if a provider is at risk of closure
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  • Mar 31, 2021
OfS gets new powers to protect students if English providers shut
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Regulation
  • Mar 31, 2021
Sixteen golden nuggets from the December and February OfS board papers
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OfS Regulation
  • Mar 18, 2021
The year ahead: What students can expect from the OfS
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Mar 17, 2021
OfS investigates ‘conditional unconditional’ offer ban ‘breaches’
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  • Mar 17, 2021
It’s time to assure students about safety on campus
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Regulation Safeguarding Safety Sexual harassment Sexual misconduct Gender-based violence
  • Mar 15, 2021
Unify roles of regional schools commissioners and councils, says report
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  • Mar 5, 2021
GCSEs: 'Gavin has left a big whoopsie on our carpet'
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  • Feb 26, 2021
Welsh watchdog criticises lack of action since home-school scurvy death
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  • Feb 25, 2021
University watchdog faces 'impartiality' questions
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  • Feb 19, 2021
A new 'free speech champion' may end up doing the opposite | Alison-Scott Baumann
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation
  • Feb 17, 2021
Response to the new announcements on free speech and academic freedom
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation
  • Feb 17, 2021
The government will offer a lifeboat to sinking free speech on campuses
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  • Feb 17, 2021
Top colleges at Oxford are in the grip of 'unconscious bias' training
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Gavin Williamson’s proposals on free speech and universities are a half-baked mess
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  • Feb 16, 2021
UK government criticised over plans to oversee free speech at universities
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Gavin Williamson hits out at campuses that ‘stifle freedom of speech’
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Academic freedom can’t be legislated into existence
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Higher education: free speech and academic freedom
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Landmark proposals to strengthen free speech at universities
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Universities committed to promoting and protecting free speech
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  • Feb 16, 2021
UCU response to government 'free speech' proposals
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Russell Group responds to free speech measures
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
This is not the first government crack down on free speech in universities
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Government free speech proposals represent a breakdown of trust and confidence
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
Plan for campus free speech post prompts autonomy warning
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
Podcast: Are new campus free speech laws really necessary?
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Gavin Williamson launches plan to protect free speech and combat ‘unacceptable silencing’
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
Proposed free speech law will make English universities liable for breaches
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
Boris to announce new measures to combat 'cancel culture' at universities
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Give us a break: booking a holiday from regulation
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Coronavirus Regulation Bureaucracy
  • Feb 16, 2021
Students and academics will be able to sue universities for censoring free speech under planned Government crackdown
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
Measures to protect free speech on university campuses unveiled
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  • Feb 16, 2021
New free speech rules target English universities
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
Tories accused of war on 'phantom threats' to free speech with university fines plan
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Free speech Academic freedom Censorship Regulation No platform
  • Feb 16, 2021
‘Free speech’ academics can seek legal redress
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Matthew Goodwin: Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob
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  • Feb 15, 2021
Margaret Thatcher's old Oxford college Somerville makes all students take an 'unconscious bias' test
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  • Feb 15, 2021
A week in HE brings something old, new, borrowed and blue – but little to warm the heart
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Pensions USS Regulation Policy Essay mills
  • Feb 15, 2021
Imperial College under investigation by OfS over bullying scandal
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Imperial College London Investigations Bullying Office for Students Regulation
  • Feb 14, 2021
Gavin Williamson slams outgoing chairman of student watchdog for failing to protect free speech on campuses
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Free speech Censorship Sir Michael Barber Office for Students Regulation Gavin Williamson
  • Feb 9, 2021
OfS sets off in a new direction with new guidance and a new chair
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Office for Students Leadership Regulation
  • Feb 9, 2021
Minister: strip degree powers if graduate employment falls short
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Degree awarding powers Graduate outcomes Regulation
  • Feb 8, 2021
How to raise a concern about a university or college
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Regulation
  • Feb 8, 2021
Student contracts: an opportunity to streamline and reduce regulatory burden in English higher education
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Regulation
  • Jan 29, 2021
Making the case for the London Weighting
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  • Jan 28, 2021
Should students tell tales on their university or college?
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Regulation Complaints
  • Jan 27, 2021
Departing Hull College chair lashes out at ‘failure’ of government oversight
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Governance Regulation Leaders Colleges Resignations Financial irregularities
  • Jan 22, 2021
Why higher education needs a strong regulator
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Regulation
  • Jan 20, 2021
V-cs voice ‘significant concern’ on regulator’s ‘quality’ metrics
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  • Jan 18, 2021
Regulatory crackdowns on broken promises are not all that they seem
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Coronavirus Regulation
  • Jan 15, 2021
Simon Lebus named Ofqual's next interim chief regulator
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Ofqual Chief Regulator Simon Lebus Cambridge Assessment Regulation Exams
  • Dec 22, 2020
New Ofqual chief promises to work with sector for ‘smooth-running’ exams next year
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  • Dec 22, 2020
Regulators took over after apprenticeship assessment bodies refused to comply
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Apprenticeship assessment Regulation
  • Dec 16, 2020
What’s the point of regulation?
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Regulation
  • Dec 16, 2020
Five regulatory gifts under the tree from the Office for Students
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Regulation Office for Students
  • Dec 15, 2020
The OfS’ performance on place
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Regulation
  • Dec 9, 2020
Why regulate? Reflections from our latest Insight event
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Regulation
  • Dec 8, 2020
New cap on exit payments could lead to legal disputes
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  • Dec 7, 2020
UCU response to Office for Students annual review
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Dec 3, 2020
English higher education 2020: The Office for Students annual review
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Office for Students Regulation
  • Dec 3, 2020
Students ‘actively encouraged’ to notify OfS of quality concerns
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Regulation Student satisfaction Student experience Office for Students
  • Dec 3, 2020
OfS will tackle pockets of low quality higher education provision
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Value for money Quality assurance Regulation
  • Dec 2, 2020
Colleges to face tougher regulations when offering HE
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  • Nov 17, 2020
England’s higher education regulator to ‘raise quality bar’
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Value for money Quality assurance Regulation
  • Nov 17, 2020
Reducing burden means smarter data collection, not less
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Data collection Regulation
  • Nov 3, 2020
For-profit college finally registered with OfS after court battle
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  • Oct 30, 2020
The Office for Students has a (new) plan
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  • Oct 30, 2020
UK: OfS considers regulations around international student experience
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OfS should take a proportionate approach
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Proposed Quality Code how do I love thee not? Let me count the ways…
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Skills in 2017: less money, more problems…
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Link pay to university size, says Office for Students watchdog
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Vice-chancellor pay should be linked to university size, head of the new regulatory body says 
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An anatomy of judgement: how do ‘snowflakes’ think?
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Eton headmaster admits his teachers helped set seven exams sat by his own pupils
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In the news: 20 October 2017
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Consultation offers ‘a real opportunity to push forward a step change’
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OfS details now open for consultation
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The cost of regulation
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Ofsted chief calls for new laws to regulate faith schools after it emerges 6,000 pupils may be at risk because of weak legislation
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Higher education must learn from other sectors on living with a regulator
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Ofqual unveils corporate plan 2017 to 2020
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SFA and EFA merger confirmed and Lauener retiring
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Greening announces merger of education and skills funding
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Ofqual should not have double standards
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