Good universities have nothing to fear from the OfS’ quality crackdown

If, as admitted here, most institutions already meet "your requirements" (and who are you exactly to have "requirements"?), why waste their time and effort in the administrivia of proving that they are doing what they are already doing? This attitude has ruined schools and FE already. We need to protect HE from the dead hand of micromanagement by politically-motivated individuals who lack the capability to recognise what they are looking at. We teach students to think and to learn for themselves, replacing an empty mind with an open and enquiring one. That's what they need to thrive and contribute to society. And, of course, teaching students is only part of what universities do. Remember that!

A lot of talk about high quality but what does that actually mean in practice???? Many of the outcomes cited in previous studies are grossly unfair depending on geographical location, local economic prospects and input grades vs. output grades.