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Our specialist groups and panels explore different aspects relating to our work.

Details of our other groups and panels will be added to this page in due course.

Horizon Scanning Panel

Our Horizon Scanning Panel seeks to understand how the higher education sector (and the environment in which it operates) may change in the future, and the implications for the OfS’s regulatory approach.

The panel normally meets four times a year.

Panel members

Two board members serve on the Horizon Scanning Panel:

Sir Michael Barber (Chair)
David Palfreyman OBE.

Current external members:

Hasan Bakhshi

Hasan Bakhshi is Executive Director, Creative Economy and Data Analytics, Nesta.

Hasan oversees Nesta’s creative economy policy, research and practical work. In 2015, he co-authored Creativity vs Robots, which explores how resistant different creative occupations are to future automation. In 2017, he co-authored The Future of Skills: Employment in 2030 which combines foresight methods and machine learning to predict the likely workforce skills mix in the future.

Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, where he is also Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford.

Rosemary Luckin

Rosemary Luckin is a Professor at University College London whose research is concerned with educational applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and the impact of AI on education and society. She is author of ‘Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: the future of education in the 21st century’ (2018).

Rose is also the Founding Director of EDUCATE: a London hub for educational technology start-ups, specialist adviser to the UK House of Commons Education Select Committee; Co-founder of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education; and was named as one of the 20 most influential people in education in the Seldon List 2017.

The Horizon Scanning Panel currently has six internal members. Two members of the OfS’s student panel also attend the Horizon Scanning Panel meetings.

Horizon Scanning Panel: Terms of reference

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The panel's remit in detail

Published 22 November 2019

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