Guidance from government

This page lists documents which cover details of strategic advice and priorities from the government to the Office for Students.

Government guidance 2021

The Office for Students received the following document in January 2021.

Guidance to the OfS: Allocation of higher education teaching grant funding in the 2021-22 financial year

Letter from the Secretary of State

Government guidance 2020

The Office for Students received the following documents in January, February, September and December 2020.

Guidance to the OfS: Additional hardship funding (December 2020)

Letter from the Minister for Universities. The OfS will be writing to providers later this week with details of their additional allocations.

Additional teaching grant and funding/reducing the bureaucratic burden on providers (September 2020)

Letter from the Minister for Universities

Funds for the University of Bolton (February 2020)

Letter from the Department for Education

Teaching grant budget for 2020-21 financial year (January 2020)

Letter from the Secretary of State

Government guidance 2019

The Office for Students received the following documents in February, June and September 2019.

Supplementary strategic guidance to the OfS (September 2019)

Ministerial priorities from the Secretary of State

Strategic guidance to the OfS (June 2019)

Additional priorities for financial year 2019-20

Strategic guidance to the OfS: Priorities for financial year 2019-20 (February 2019)

Priorities for the financial year 2019-20

Government guidance 2018

The Office for Students received the following documents in February 2018.

Strategic guidance to the OfS: Priorities for financial year 2018-19

Priorities for financial year 2018-19

Facilitating electoral registration

Guidance to the OfS

Degree awarding powers and university title

Guidance to the OfS

Access and participation

Guidance to the OfS

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Last updated 15 September 2020 + show all updates

15 September 2020: Strategic guidance - letter published
13 March 2020: Letter regarding funds for the University of Bolton published
09 January 2020: Teaching grant budget for 2020-21 financial year - letter published

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