Susan Lapworth argues that higher education providers could be taking better advantage of their institutional autonomy.
In my first public outing as the Office for Students' (OfS's) interim chief executive I wanted to talk about regulatory burden and institutional autonomy.
Or, if you prefer, 'why does your governing body spend so much time on regulatory stuff?'.
I know this is a favourite topic for debate. We launched our new OfS strategy in March, and we have been clear that our focus for the next three years will be on quality and standards; and equality of opportunity; and on the enabling regulation needed to make all of that work.
