The Office for Students (OfS) has published the rules for its new free speech complaints scheme, which will open on 1 September 2026. Alongside the rules, the OfS has updated its freedom of speech regulatory guidance in response to the University of Sussex judgment. The scheme covers staff (including academics), applicants for academic posts, visiting…
The UK Government has announced a package of measures aimed at strengthening how universities meet their Prevent duty – the legal obligation to take action to prevent students from being drawn into terrorism or radicalised. Central to the new measures is a proposal to enable the Office for Students (OfS) being a formal whistleblowing body…
Representatives from Gateshead College and Newcastle University have been presented with Queen Elizabeth Prizes honouring work of outstanding importance and quality in higher and further education in the UK. Gateshead College received the award for the first time for an innovative programme for the built environment and Newcastle University was honoured for research into…
By Iain Sloan, senior solutions consultant at Ellucian In education, as the well-known saying goes, change is the only constant. I’ve been working in the higher education sector for two decades and this has never been more apparent than in the last few years. Uncertainty continues to reign in international student recruitment, for example,…
Award winning, data-powered integrated agency, Jaywing, a key player in the digital and creative strategies of many of the UK’s leading education institutions, has launched a new whitepaper aimed at the higher education sector. The paper aims to be a tool for marketers that sheds light on what drives student acquisition and spotlights how organisations can adapt to ongoing needs for digital transformation to build a robust high performing, higher education brand for the future. The findings of the report suggest three main focal…
