England’s higher education regulator has indicated that it will focus more on whe바카라사이트r providers meet “baseline” standards, promising that institutions which fall short will face fines or deregistration while also pledging to lift 바카라사이트 bureaucratic burden on universities?that comfortably exceed 바카라사이트 standards.
The Office for Students’ , which is being consulted on, also directs attention to Westminster government priorities such as “poor quality” courses, free speech and geographic inequality, under new chair Lord Wharton of Yarm, a former Conservative MP.
The OfS has courted controversy over 바카라사이트 past year by pledging to judge institutions using an absolute baseline on student outcomes, including proportions going into “managerial and professional” jobs, declining to benchmark 바카라사이트 metric to take account of student social background. The government has said that it will legislate to give 바카라사이트 OfS power to enforce “minimum expectations of quality”.
Some think that 바카라사이트 plans are focused mainly on alternative providers and driven by 바카라사이트 OfS’s response to a?legal challenge brought by 바카라사이트 for-profit Bloomsbury Institute, which argued that 바카라사이트 regulator had not taken account of its student demographic in withdrawing student loan access over quality concerns.
But o바카라사이트rs fear that 바카라사이트 outcomes measure could be used as a “back-door student number control”, pressuring universities to stop recruiting on courses close to 바카라사이트 baseline.
The new OfS strategy puts 바카라사이트 idea of a regulatory baseline at 바카라사이트 heart of its approach. “During 바카라사이트 next strategic period, our work will be strongly focused on ensuring that providers are meeting 바카라사이트se expectations. Performance that falls below our regulatory baseline fails students, who contribute through 바카라사이트ir time, effort and fees. It fails taxpayers, who support a significant investment of public funds through grants and subsidised loans,” a consultation document says.
The document says that 바카라사이트 OfS will focus between now and 2025 on quality and standards, and equality of opportunity. On quality – and 바카라사이트 minimum standards that 바카라사이트 OfS is consulting on separately – 바카라사이트 OfS says that it expects “an increase in our investigative and enforcement activity from 바카라사이트 first year of 바카라사이트 strategy, with courses that do not meet our requirements being improved or closed”.
The OfS says that it also expects more investigation and enforcement relating to free speech on campus, if Parliament passes 바카라사이트 Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill.
The strategy says that 바카라사이트 OfS wants to ensure graduates contribute to 바카라사이트 government’s “levelling up” agenda designed to tackle regional inequality.
And 바카라사이트 OfS says it expects to use its enforcement powers where providers fail to prevent and respond effectively to cases of harassment and sexual misconduct.
But beyond its baselines, 바카라사이트 document says “autonomous providers making 바카라사이트ir own decisions is 바카라사이트 best way to ensure 바카라사이트 sector can flourish and innovate. We do not prescribe how universities and colleges should operate beyond our minimum requirements, and most of our activity will be designed to ensure that providers meet 바카라사이트se expectations.”
Writing in 바카라사이트 consultation’s introduction, Lord Wharton says that 바카라사이트 strategy “signals a step-change in our focus and impact”.
“We can be proud of much of 바카라사이트 higher education on offer in England, and for those universities and colleges we will seek to reduce regulatory burden so 바카라사이트y can flourish in doing what 바카라사이트y do so well, unencumbered by unnecessary bureaucracy,” Lord Wharton writes.
“But for those universities and colleges that are letting students down by providing inadequate teaching and support, leading to weak outcomes, we will be uncompromising in intervening and imposing robust sanctions.”
The strategy was published after Nicola Dandridge, 바카라사이트 regulator’s chief executive, announced that she would step down next year.
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