Learn from Australia’s ‘regulation traumas’, England urged

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

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by SeanieFinneran on June 8, 2023 - 8:07am

The biggest concern in the UK is that the OfS are scared of the Tories, the nasty party that runs the country. Was that the same in Australia when the Coalition were in power?

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