Publications

This report presents interim findings from Wave 1 of the Degree Apprenticeship Funding Competition, focusing on the design, delivery, outcomes and impacts of Wave 1 funded projects. It draws on data collection and analysis conducted between August 2024 and July 2025.

This evaluation, commissioned by the Office for Students and conducted by York Consulting LLP, explores the impact of the OfS’s public quality assessment activities on higher education providers that the OfS has not assessed directly. These activities include the publication of assessment reports, compliance judgements, the OfS’s ‘Insight brief’ on the subject, and related communications.

Public First conducted research for the Office for Students (OfS) to examine students’ perceptions of their rights as consumers and the promises made to them by higher education providers.

The outcomes and allocations for the distribution of capital grants by the OfS for the financial year (April to March) 2025-26.

Our strategy and roadmap set out how we will deliver risk-based regulation of English higher education from 2025 to 2030.

These documents provide an analysis of feedback through the consultation and set out how we have responded. 

This regulatory case report summarises concerns we found during an investigation into Brit College and its Diplomat in Education and Training course.

A letter to chairs of governing bodies about the risks emerging across the sector.  

A letter from Arif Ahmed, Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom, reminding institutions about the steps they can take to protect Jewish students and staff on campus.

This report sets out the results of our analysis of changes in the proportion of first and upper second class degrees awarded between 2010-11 and 2023-24.