Closed consultations
OfS Consultation on quality and standards conditions
The EPC EEES Committee has responded to the Office for Students’ (OfS) three latest consultations on their approach to regulating quality and standards in higher education.
These include the promised consultation on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as well as B3 baseline information in a new approach to regulating student outcomes, including its approach to constructing student outcomes and experience indicators.
The Office for Students undertook a preliminary consultation on a range of quality and standards issues during the winter of 2020-21 (the EPC response is available on the EPC website). Their latest consultation took forward some aspects of that consultation and made more detailed proposals about new regulatory requirements. The consultation did not cover student outcomes measures. The EPC has submitted a representative response by the Engineering Education, Employability and Skills Committee highlighting that, on its own, the level of detail on this consultation is too narrow and insular to provide useful grounds for constructive comment.
Letter on student number controls for 2014-15
HEFCE has received a letter from the Minister for Universities and Science, requesting that it considers increasing the flexibility of recruitment in 2014-15 for institutions that show strong recruitment patterns....