England’s higher education regulator first summarised the state of business and management education back in 1995.
This was based on a detailed provider submission made two years earlier by 105 providers, and 47 subsequent assessment visits made by HEFCE during 1994.
Just 19 of these examples of provision were judged to be “excellent” – with all but one of the remainder judged satisfactory (North East Worcester College made improvements based on the initial findings and was judged satisfactory the following year).
A report was published for every visit, with findings summarised across the sector in a “subject overview report”.
