Prevent monitoring: accountability and data return 2025
Guidance for higher education providers on completing the Prevent accountability and data return (ADR) for the 2024-25 academic year.
Last updated: 17 Sep 2025
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Student contract terms amended at a higher education provider following Trading Standards referral
SP Jain London School of Management (SPJ) has amended its student contract after the OfS referred concerns about potentially unfair terms and conditions to National Trading Standards.
Last updated: 04 Sep 2025
Press releaseWhat students can expect from new regulation on free speech and preventing harassment and sexual misconduct
As new requirements to secure free speech and protect students from harassment and sexual misconduct come into force for universities and colleges in England, the Office for Students’ (OfS’s) chief executive Susan Lapworth sets out what students can expect.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2025
Blog postChanges to the data categories in the 2025-26 Prevent ADR
We are making some minor changes to the radicalisation categories for the accountability and data return (ADR), which universities and colleges use to submit data on Prevent.
Last updated: 16 Jul 2025
PublicationUK students make their voices heard in the National Student Survey 2025
Over 357,000 final-year students answered the call to feedback on their experiences of higher education.
Last updated: 09 Jul 2025
Press releaseOfS publishes new data on Prevent
New OfS data finds the number of events or external speakers approved by universities and colleges increased, with an accompanying rise in the number of events approved with conditions put in place.
Last updated: 17 Jun 2025
Press releasePrevent monitoring: Summary of 2023-24 accountability and data returns
This report presents sector-level data from providers’ accountability and data returns (ADRs) for academic year 2023-24.
Last updated: 17 Jun 2025
PublicationDe-designation of courses at Brit College
Students at Brit College have been told that their higher education courses will be no longer be designated by the Department for Education from 4 June 2025.
Last updated: 09 Jun 2025
Press releaseTaking the UK’s digital workforce to the next level
As the funding for our programme to support postgraduate conversion courses in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science ends, we explore the programme’s impact to increase diversity and address digital skills gaps in the technology sector.
Last updated: 09 Jun 2025
Blog postOfS responds to national review of higher education student suicide deaths
A report published by the Department for Education has set out a series of recommendations to support students and prevent suicide.
Last updated: 27 May 2025
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