Our business plan

Quality

This page outlines the work we will do on quality in 2025-26.

What we will do in 2025-26

  • We will develop a new integrated approach to assessing quality, informed by engagement with students and higher education providers.
  • We will consult on this new approach, including considering how risks to quality are identified and monitored.
  • We will explore the development of indicators to support our understanding of provider-level risks to quality and standards.
  • We will continue to assess apprenticeship provision.
  • We will continue to engage with organisations working in transnational education.

What we will do in 2025-26

  • We will prepare for measuring the numbers of students studying modules from 2026-27, and for collecting new data about completion of modules in 2027-28.
  • We will analyse the LLE’s implications for our regulatory approach.
  • We will support the DfE in ensuring that the process for providers to apply for its modular eligibility check is ready before the LLE launch.

What we will do in 2025-26

  • We will complete monitoring and evaluation of the artificial intelligence and data science programme, which supports innovation in digital skills development.
  • We will monitor and evaluate the degree apprenticeship programme, supporting growth in high quality technical education.
  • We will continue to develop our policy on pathways and progression, including through collaboration with Skills England.

What we will do in 2025-26

  • We will support and promote freedom of speech within higher education.
  • We will investigate where we have particular concerns in relation to freedom of speech.
  • We will prepare for the introduction of a new freedom of speech complaints scheme, subject to decisions by Parliament.

What we will do in 2025-26

  • We will allocate OfS strategic priorities grant funding to support teaching and infrastructure across the sector.

What we will do in 2025-26

  • We will complete all quality assessments currently in progress.
  • We will open new assessments where we identify potential concerns.
  • We will continue informal engagement with providers to address risks early where possible.
  • We will further develop our enforcement guidance and processes to ensure that our approach to regulatory interventions is clear and efficient.
Published 26 May 2022
Last updated 24 July 2025
24 July 2025
Published 2025-26 business plan.
02 August 2024
Updated for 2024-25.
08 June 2023
Business plan published for 2023-24.

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