Amid the Easter torpor comes the raw, visceral, excitement of the Office for Students board papers for a meeting held on 8 February 2024.
Perhaps inevitably given the serious financial pressures faced by providers and students, what little freewheeling discussion and insight we used to get from these papers has moved behind a wall of restrictions.
It makes for a dispiriting read.
The less we hear about the machinations of regulatory governments, the more we are likely to draw our own conclusions about what is going on and why.
Several recent publications have suggested that OfS is keen to reset relationships with the sector and wider stakeholders – for me, finding a way to communicate what the regulator is up to at a senior level will be paramount in rebuilding trust.
Sparse document drops like this do not help.
