In July, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) announced that it will demit its role as the Designated Quality Body (DQB) for England with effect from 1 April 2023.
Subsequently, the Office for Students (OfS) has announced that it will undertake the assessment activities that are currently delivered by the DQB.
Whose house?
This decision by the OfS to take the quality role in house, represents a significant shift in the approach to quality assurance – and one which continues a particular trajectory of the regulator in England and differentiates further from the approach taken by the regulatory bodies in the rest of the UK.
