Government starts review of Office for Students

Peers criticise OfS ‘nonchalance’ on ‘looming crisis’ in finances

Lords committee report delivers biting criticism of ‘distant and combative’ English regulator, prompting calls for its chair to resign

By John Morgan

13 September

OfS ‘hasn’t got everything right’ but has ‘done a decent job’

Chief executive Susan Lapworth defends English regulator against sector criticism

By John Morgan

22 June

Young woman stretches out springy eyes on joke-shop glasses.to illustrate Is it time for the Office for Students to grow up?

What is to be done about the Office for Students?

The ‘teenage’ regulator has a toxic relationship with universities owing to its uncompromising approach and its alleged unwillingness to listen – except to Conservative ministers. But should vice-chancellors agitating against the OfS be careful what they wish for? John Morgan reports

By John Morgan

25 May