Monitoring and intervention

Monitoring is designed to provide us with signals to show where further engagement or investigation may be necessary before we decide whether regulatory risk is increased for a provider. This allows us to focus our regulatory attention where it is needed most to protect students. 

Updating our risk assessment 

We undertake a risk assessment when a provider is first registered and this assessment is updated as we receive new information about the provider.

Information comes from four main sources:

1. Indicators constructed for all providers from routine data collections, for example indicators of student outcomes or indicators of financial performance.
2. Reportable events submitted by a provider, for example because the provider does not expect to recruit the number of students it had planned with consequences for its financial position, or a professional body has removed the provider’s accreditation. 
3. Additional information that the OfS has required from a provider, for example because the OfS has already judged that provider to be at increased risk of a breach of one or more of its conditions of registration. 
4. Notifications about an individual provider from third parties, such as students and their representatives or whistle-blowers.