Publications

Annual analysis of sector aggregate data based on submissions from higher education institutions in England and Northern Ireland, plus a summary of UK sector data.

Our response to the consultation on the OfS’s new free speech complaints scheme. This sets out our decisions and our reasons for making those decisions.

This guide is to help those in higher education to understand how we will manage the funding we are distributing to higher education providers each year.

This document sets out the terms and conditions of funding that apply for the academic year 1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027.

This publication reports the decisions taken by the OfS on funding for the 2026-27 academic year.

We commissioned independent research by Savanta to help understand which measures of commuter status are most useful. We asked more than 1,000 students in England about their travel arrangements, living circumstances and experiences of higher education in order to identify which measures of commuting are most strongly associated with negative student experiences.

This guidance explains how we assess financial risk in practice, highlights the characteristics and indicators that inform financial risk judgements for individual providers, explains how we apply regulatory judgement concerning our published regulatory requirements in practice, and highlights the level of regulatory intervention the OfS is likely to take in response to escalating risk.

These reports assess the impact of attainment-raising activity by Uni Connect partnerships.

Our business plan sets out the work we intend to do over the coming year. It includes the operational activities that support our work and our plans for continuous improvement.

This annual report describes the makeup of our staff population split by six protected characteristics.