Our business plan

What we will do in 2023-24

We will implement our new approach to regulating equality of opportunity, including revised access and participation plans to tackle risks to equality of opportunity for students.

We will monitor progress in delivery of current access and participation plans and ensure that providers are delivering high quality education and good outcomes for students from all backgrounds. Using funding, guidance and evidence of ‘what works’, we will support providers to make progress on access and participation.

What we will do in 2023-24

We will improve and promote the information available to prospective students for choosing courses and providers. We will also enable providers to supply greater choice to students by allocating funding and putting in place validation arrangements.

What we will do in 2023-24

Subject to consultation, we propose to introduce new regulation that sets minimum requirements for providers in preventing and responding to incidents of harassment and sexual misconduct affecting students. We will collect new survey data and use this and other regulatory intelligence to better understand the issues.

What we will do in 2023-24

We will encourage higher education providers to address mental health among students as a risk to equality of opportunity. We will ensure that providers understand the scale and nature of mental health issues in higher education and know how best to support their students.