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  • Weekly digest 11 November

    Regulatory OfS has published some useful new data, which enable you to explore differences in rates of student continuation, completion, attainment and progression according to various characteristics. You can find everything you need here. However, the reliance of OfS on...

  • Weekly Digest 20.10.2022

    OfS updates The “balance” of online and in-person teaching is not a “key [determinant] of teaching quality”, according to an Office for Students (OfS) commissioned review of blended learning.  OfS has published a report responding to the review which sets...

  • From Free Speech to the Cost of Living Crisis

    OfS Updates A new equality of opportunity risk register is among the proposals for consultation, as the Office for Students (OfS) launches a consultation on its new approach to regulating equality of opportunity in higher education. The OfS has published...

  • Strikes, skills and robo-research

    Research Research England has commissioned a study of whether artificial intelligence could be used to predict the quality of research outputs based on analysis of journal abstracts, in a move that could potentially remove the need for peer review from...

  • Reshuffles, blended learning and funding lotteries

    Politics Although we have a new Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education (Kit Malthouse), in the Cabinet reshuffle, it looks as if Andrea Jenkyns, just reappointed to the Department for Education, has been retained as Minister for Higher...

  • Weekly Digest 01/09/2022

    Quality England is still searching for a trusted and independent body to take on the role of assessing quality in English higher education. Rankings This year’s THE World University Rankings launch on 12 October.  Next year’s rankings will see some...

  • A-levels results week

    Results A-level results came out this week and, as anticipated, there was a steep fall in the number of students achieving the highest grades, although numbers were still higher than pre-pandemic, in 2019. There was also a drop in the...

  • Weekly digest - 12 August

    Results This summer saw the return of a full exam series in all four UK nations following the pandemic. Scottish students received their results on Tuesday 9 August and A Level results are released next Thursday. The House of Commons...

  • Research bureaucracy, consultations and more strike action

    Quality and Regulation The OfS published the results of consultations on regulating student outcomes and refreshing the TEF. Following an extensive consultation process involving students and the HE sector, the OfS has decided to implement proposals that will allow regulatory...

  • Funding, grade inflation and cheating

    NEWS Finance The UK HE sector earned £44 billion in 2020-21, according to the latest financial data release from HESA; 79 providers reported a deficit while 195 had a surplus at the end of the year.  An assessment of the...