This document provides guidance for registered providers about how the OfS will approach the regulation of quality and standards matters during the period of disruption resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This guidance is in place
Last updated: 02 Apr 2020
PublicationUniversities and colleges should continue to do all they can to maintain the quality of courses and the credibility of qualifications during the pandemic, the Office for Students (OfS) said today.
Last updated: 02 Apr 2020
Press releaseChanges in graduate attainment from 2010-11 to 2017-18
Last updated: 10 Jul 2019
PublicationThe OfS responds to the Secretary of State for Education’s announcement of a review of Level 4 and 5 qualifications.
Last updated: 07 Jul 2019
Press releaseThere’s some coverage of TEF following the Year 4 announcements.
Last updated: 19 Jun 2019
Media coverageOffice for Students announces results of TEF 2019
Last updated: 18 Jun 2019
Press releaseDegree apprenticeships are growing significantly and offer a route to increased social mobility, but more work is needed to realise their potential.
Last updated: 08 Mar 2019
Press releaseDegree apprenticeships provide an alternative route to a higher education qualification, with on-the-job learning and a salary instead of tuition fees. So why is this option so little known? Why do relatively few learners take it up? And can we
Last updated: 07 Mar 2019
PublicationThe steep rise in the numbers of unconditional offers made by universities and colleges to students applying to study with them has come under the spotlight in recent months amid concerns that it is having a negative impact on students. Are these
Last updated: 24 Jan 2019
PublicationDame Shirley Pearce, who is leading the independent review of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), has invited views from all with an interest in the TEF.
Last updated: 18 Jan 2019
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