Past consultations
OfS Consultation on quality and standards conditions
This consultation ran from July to September 2021. OfS undertook a preliminary consultation on a range of quality and standards issues during the winter of 2020-21. The consultation brought forward...
Compensation and Condonement: Feedback to proposed accreditation regulations
In May 2020, the Engineering Council updated its policy on compensation and condonement, which resulted in new rules being put in place for new cohorts on accredited programmes starting from...
HE Commission Public Call for Evidence: University Research and Regional Levelling Up Inquiry
The Higher Education Commission’s inquiry invited stakeholders to respond to its public call for evidence. This consultation ran from May to June 2021 To achieve its ambitions of levelling-up regional...
DfE proposed changes: Post-qualifications admissions in Higher Education
This consultation ran from January 2012 to May 2021. The consultation sought to attain views on whether to change the current system of higher education admissions and move to a...
OfS Consultation on Recurrent Funding for 2021-22
This consultation ran from March to May 2021. The government sent a statutory guidance letter to the Office for Students (OfS), which set out the funds available for financial year...
OfS Consultation on Regulating Quality and Standards in HE
This consultation ran from November 2020 to January 2021. The Office for Students consulted on its approach to regulating quality and standards in higher education. Since 2018, OfS' focus has...
Digital teaching and learning during the coronavirus pandemic: Call for evidence
This call for evidence ran from September to October 2020. This call for evidence sought a wide breadth of sector input and experience to understand the challenges faced, and lessons...
REF 2021 timetable
This consultation ran from April to May 2020. The purpose of this consultation was to gather initial views on the REF timetable. Responses were invited from any organisation, group or...
OfS Consultation on the integrity and stability of the English higher education sector
This consultation ran from 4th May 2020 to 26th May 2020. This consultation addresses issues that have arisen, and have the potential to arise, because of specific circumstances relating to...
Migration Advisory Committee’s call for evidence on a salary threshold and points-based system
This consultation ran from September to November 2019. In June 2019, the government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to carry out an in depth analysis of potential future salary thresholds...
Compensation and Condonement: Response to proposed accreditation regulations
The Engineering Council proposed a policy on compensation and condonement, which will result in new rules being put in place for new cohorts on accredited programmes starting from September 2022....
Improving Higher Technical Education: Department for Education
This consultation ran from July to September 2019. Higher technical education is post-18 education aligned to technical routes, such as accounting, engineering, management or laboratory science. The DfE sought to...
Engineering Council Standards Review
The Engineering Council was in the process of undertaking its five-yearly review of its Standards, including those relevant to accreditation and approval. As part of this consultation, The Engineering Council...
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Future frameworks for international collaboration on research and innovation: call for evidence
This consultation ran from April to May 2019. In March 2019, Professor Sir Adrian Smith was commissioned by BEIS to provide independent advice on the design of future UK funding...
OFSTED consultation on the education inspection framework 2019
This consultation ran from January to April 2019. Ofsted sought to attain views on its proposals for changes to the education inspection framework from September 2019.