Publications

The Office for Students is consulting on how we can ensure that we have the necessary data to perform our functions while ensuring that our data requirements from registered higher education providers are proportionate.

This document provides information about the prescribed fee caps that apply to individual higher education providers and the maximum fees chargeable by that provider to new students starting courses in 2022-23.

The TRAC return for 2019-20 included the collection of addition information about the impact of the changes to higher education institutions’ operating circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic on both institutions’ delivery of their teaching, research and other activities, and their ability to compile the TRAC return data for 2019-20 robustly in accordance with the TRAC requirements. The purpose of the additional data collection was to provide information to assess the scale of the impact of these disruptions on the full economic costs reported in TRAC, and provide context for the interpretation and use of the TRAC data for 2019-20 within an ongoing time series of data.

This report is a review of value for money processes and initiatives within the Office for Students (OfS). It focuses on the efficient, effective and economic use of the OfS’s resources within the organisation, for financial year 2020-21.

The 2021 annual review reflects on a year of challenge and resilience for English higher education. It looks at our support to students and the sector during the pandemic, and sets out our priorities for 2022.

A review of the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC), in response to the government’s request as part of a wider review of bureaucratic burden.

Experimental statistics on students changing course from 2012-13 to 2018-19

This report provides an overview of the information higher education providers have reported to the OfS about the progress they have made in relation to their access and participation plans.

Evaluating the delivery of the OfS investment in the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO): Results of the mid-term survey with higher education providers 2021

This document analyses how English higher education providers regulated by the OfS pay their senior staff.