Publications

Guidance for providers on how to complete HESF22 Higher Education Students Forecast (HESF) 2022-23

This document provides guidance on funding rules and definitions for the data return survey, HESES21.

This report presents sector-level data from providers’ accountability and data returns (ADRs) for academic years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20.

The Challenge Competition invites Approved (fee cap) providers to develop new short courses from existing qualifications at Levels 4 to 6, in a range of subject areas and at a range of levels.

This interim report provides lessons from the first stage of project delivery, which ran from June 2019 to February 2021. It explores the impact of the competition to date, as well as key lessons learned and common challenges experienced during project implementation, delivery and the development of strategic partnerships, and student and staff experiences of co-creation.

This document provides notification of changes that we intend to make to the collection of data to inform funding for 2022-23.

This publication summarises the Office for Students’ initial allocations of recurrent funding to higher education providers for the academic year 2021-22, to support their teaching activities. Annex A summarises the funding allocations for each provider.

This document sets out terms and conditions of funding that apply for the academic year 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022. These apply to the recurrent and capital funding the Office for Students (OfS) will distribute to providers that are registered in the Approved (fee cap) part of the OfS Register of higher education providers.

This paper contains analysis of the 2019-20 sector aggregate data based on submissions from higher education institutions in England and Northern Ireland. Also provided is a summary of UK sector data.

This note provides initial information for OfS registered providers and other stakeholders, including employers, on the aims of the Competition, available funding, an indication of likely competition criteria, and next steps and timelines.