REPORT: REGULATING HIGHER EDUCATION
The Higher Education Commission's latest report, 'Regulating Higher Education', was formally launched in Parliament on October 9th 2013.
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Press release
REPORT CALLS FOR URGENT LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE REGULATION OF HE IN ENGLAND
- Independent commission warns current HE regulatory system ‘outmoded and unfit for purpose’
- Reforms needed to protect students in new diversified HE landscape
- UK global reputation at risk as ‘piecemeal’ reform to regulation stifles investment
- Urging the Government to commit to higher education legislation. If time does not allow for a Bill in this Parliament, the Commission recommends that a commitment to new legislation should appear in all three major parties’ manifestos.
- The creation of a new, overarching regulator, building on HEFCE’s remit (renamed the Council for Higher Education – CHE. The CHE should incorporate OFFA, OSL (formerly SLC) and a new body, OCID (Office for Competition and Institutional Diversity). Responsible for ensuring complementarity of bodies across a pluralist system, the CHE should have contractual relationships with QAA, UCAS, and HESA.
- The development, by the new lead regulator (CHE), of a Common Regulatory Framework that can be applied to a range of providers to varying degrees, dependent on their provision and funding arrangements. The Common Regulatory Framework would create a kite mark to be awarded by the CHE, which institutions would receive once they had undergone a successful QAA review and subscribe to the OIA.
- Greater protection for students through the formation of a ‘protection’ or ‘insurance’ scheme, coordinated by the lead regulator, paid into by all providers, to insulate institutions against possible future financial difficulties or failure.