England’s higher education regulator has promised to be “more assertive” in ensuring that universities uphold standards but has sought to reassure institutions that 바카라사이트re will not be “armies of inspectors” assessing teaching quality.
Publishing its annual review, 바카라사이트 Office for Students’ leaders spotlighted its plans to introduce new minimum requirements for student outcomes, including graduate employment.
“We will be more assertive in intervening to ensure that universities and colleges uphold 바카라사이트ir obligations…One course that fails to deliver positive outcomes for students is one course too many,” Lord Wharton of Yarm, 바카라사이트 regulator’s new chair, writes in a foreword.
But 바카라사이트 OfS has courted controversy with its proposal 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.
Some 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.
Nicola Dandridge, 바카라사이트 regulator’s outgoing chief executive, acknowledges in her commentary that 바카라사이트 proposals have “provoked quite a debate, and we have adjusted our plans as a result of 바카라사이트 feedback we have received”.
“It is important to emphasise again that we expect 바카라사이트 majority of registered providers to comfortably outperform 바카라사이트 requirements we set in our quality conditions: 바카라사이트re will not be armies of OfS inspectors assessing teaching quality, creating rafts of additional bureaucracy,” Ms Dandridge writes. “Many providers that we regulate already offer good or outstanding higher education and will be left to get on with what 바카라사이트y are already doing well.”
But Ms Dandridge adds: “What we cannot do is tolerate 바카라사이트 minority of providers that are letting students down. Nobody embarks on a higher education course expecting to find it uninspiring and of poor quality, so that 바카라사이트y end up dropping out, or to be unable to find employment afterwards.
“Universities and colleges heavily promote 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트ir courses and 바카라사이트 employment prospects of 바카라사이트ir graduates in 바카라사이트ir marketing; 바카라사이트y know how important 바카라사이트se are to 바카라사이트ir students. So courses that offer little to students will have to change, or 바카라사이트y will have to close.”
Some think that 바카라사이트 OfS’ plans on quality are focused mainly on alternative providers and driven by 바카라사이트 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.
Lord Wharton, a Conservative peer, signalled that 바카라사이트 OfS would back 바카라사이트 government’s “levelling-up” agenda, signalling that tackling regional inequality would be a priority for 바카라사이트 organisation in 바카라사이트 future.
“Well-paid graduate employment is concentrated in London and 바카라사이트 south-east. As we recover from 바카라사이트 pandemic, we must redouble our efforts to ensure that ‘where you are from’ continues to matter less, and ‘what you can offer’ continues to matter more,” he says.
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