Number of Chinese investors buying UK indie schools grows again
Since 2014, 30 schools and their brands have been purchased by Chinese investors and companies – marking a 400% growth in the number of schools bought in the nine-year period,…
A regulator fit for the future
David Behan’s government-commissioned report into the work of the Office for Students – Fit for the Future – is a substantial addition to the recent literature on improving the regulation…
The free speech wars may finally be over
News that the government has paused the implementation of duties under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act will no doubt be greeted with a sigh of relief by the…
Launch of new body to clean up Australian VET
QVET, a non-profit membership organisation, is soft launching this August, with providers going through a rigorous quality audit before being admitted to the group. The organisation’s founders, Vivek Sharma…
The government must mitigate the risks of a university going under
In 2018, during the evolution of HEFCE to the Office for Students (OfS), the regulator made a small financial loan of £900,000 to an institution in financial difficulty under the…
Higher education postcard: National Technical University of Athens
The modern Olympic movement started with a conference in Paris in 1894 and the first modern games in Athens in 1896. And as the 2024 Olympic Games open today, 26…
OfS data dashboard update, 2024
The Office for Students has updated some of its data dashboards. Specifically, we get an extra year of student data in the outcomes (two views), TEF, and access and participation…
Cultural intelligence – the new kid on the internationalisation block
Cultural intelligence can be defined as a particular framework of intercultural skills – unlike intercultural competencies it’s more of a structured practice, says the director of Executive Programs at The…
The case for online international education
Higher education is intrinsically susceptible to change. In most sectors, organisations are competitive, differentiating strategies, pursuing unique opportunities, innovating, all in an effort to outlast competitors and build resilience against…
Subject TEF rides again (after a fashion)
The idea of a subject TEF is pretty much dead at this point. It already feels like a fever dream from the dark days of the Williamson era. Regular TEF,…