Mental health and wellbeing: a priority
Using our role as sector regulator to improve mental health and wellbeing among students is a priority for the OfS. Nicola Dandridge describes how we are doing that.
Last updated: 31 Oct 2018
Blog postAll information about equality of opportunity
Work effectively with partners to support students’ mental health, regulator tells universities
OfS providing support including funding and guidance
Last updated: 31 Oct 2018
Press releaseThere’s no room for hate crime in higher education
As National Hate Crime Awareness Week begins, Yvonne Hawkins explains how the Office for Students is working with universities and colleges, students and others to eradicate hate crime on campus.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2018
Blog postNicola Dandridge: Universities must embrace diversity
The Sunday Times' good university guide included an article from our chief executive Nicola Dandridge on the importance that people from all backgrounds are able to enter and succeed in higher education.
Last updated: 24 Sep 2018
Media coverageMatching ambition with outcomes for fair access and participation
The Office for Students (OfS) has launched a consultation which will see a major shake-up of the way we regulate access and participation.
Last updated: 12 Sep 2018
Blog postBBC News: Top universities to face pressure over admissions
BBC News reported on the OfS’s consultation on our new access and participation strategy.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2018
Media coverageUniversities expected to set tougher targets in Office for Students access shake up
The Office for Students (OfS) will expect universities and colleges to set tougher targets for disadvantaged students under new proposals published today.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2018
Press releaseA new approach to regulating access and participation in English higher education: Consultation
This document sets out consultation proposals relating to our approach to access and participation in higher education.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2018
PublicationAn untapped resource? Taught postgraduate students as partners in widening participation
It is often assumed that taught postgraduates have no time to engage in widening participation activity – but is this actually the case?
Last updated: 22 Aug 2018
Blog postThe i: Student mental health crisis must be a ‘top priority’, university watchdog warns
Richard Vaughan interviewed our chief executive Nicola Dandridge for a front page piece in the i newspaper, where she discussed our concerns about student mental health among other issues.
Last updated: 12 Aug 2018
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