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The Student Interest Board will advise the OfS's board, inform policy development, help the OfS to understand students’ perspectives, and challenge it to act in their interests.

Our revised approach to transnational education (TNE) and partnerships data collection will now collect data using the expanded Aggregate Offshore Record (AOR), pause the implementation of individualised records for TNE students, and ask institutions with new award-only partnerships to submit reportable events.

Applications will be accepted in August 2025, with priority for assessment given to institutions with existing applications that were paused last year.

The Department for Education has announced that Professor Edward Peck is the government’s preferred candidate to be the new chair of the Office for Students (OfS).

The report highlights a range of issues and challenges encountered during implementation of the first Data Futures data collection and sets out recommendations for the next phase of the programme.

The Office for Students (OfS) has set out temporary changes to its approach to registering institutions, granting degree awarding powers and applications for university title to allow a greater focus on the financial sustainability of the sector and individual institutions.

Read John Blake’s speech at the Universities UK Access, Participation and Student Success conference, where he reflects on the current round of Access & Participation Plans and the next stage of equality regulation in English higher education.

Read John Blake's speech at the students' union membership conference in Manchester.

The Office for Students (OfS) has published its business plan for 2024-25. The plan sets out the OfS’s priorities and areas of work for the forthcoming year.

Results from this year’s National Student Survey (NSS) published today show a 72.3 per cent overall response rate from students on questions about their experiences of higher education.