Higher education

The implications of a pause in OfS regulatory functions  

The legality of this week’s decision by the Office for Students is questionable, and its implications are immediate and...

JL Dutaut
Smita Jamdar
Higher education

OfS closes HE register and puts new degree powers on ice

Regulator shuts register and closes applications for degree awarding powers until August 2025 to focus on financial struggles of...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Higher education

Let’s be ambitious – not apologetic – about wanting more people qualified to level 4+

This political moment calls on FE and HE to work together for a united tertiary sector equipped to serve...

JL Dutaut
Dame Ann Limb and Professor David Phoenix
Apprenticeships, Higher education

Master’s-level apprenticeships ban risks throwing ‘baby out with bath water’

Fears that public services will be hardest hit by levy restrictions

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Higher education

HTQs are central to delivering a coherent tertiary system

A new initiative aims to support colleges to bridge the gap at the heart of the tertiary education system...

JL Dutaut
Rod Bristow and Keith Smith
Higher education

OfS independent reviewer becomes regulator’s chair

HE free speech laws will also possibly be scrapped

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Higher education, Skills reform

Slash tuition fees to £6k to fix tertiary system ‘bias’, says think tank

Final EDSK report sets out roadmap to a more coherent post-18 education system

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Higher education

HE regulator puts 3 colleges on notice

Croydon, Burnley and Blackburn colleges criticised for poor degree student outcomes

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Higher education

OfS chair Lord Wharton suddenly resigns

The political independence of the HE regulator has been criticised under Wharton's tenure

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen