To comply with section B4 of its conditions of registration, the Office for Students requires providers to retain students’ assessed work for up to five years after the completion of their course.
Previously on Wonkhe, Paul Greatrix highlighted problems with this requirement:
This represents an enormous, staggering burden requiring institutions to establish new systems to collect, collate, organise and store securely many hundreds of thousands of items, of various forms, each year. A recent survey estimated a minimum cost in the range of £270,000 to £1m per institution depending on size.
Here, we want to explore the practical implications for teachers, students and the OfS inspectors themselves – especially for authentic work-based assessments in creative disciplines (although many of the points apply more generally).
