Degree apprenticeships in context: Promoting equality of opportunity, encouraging competition and...

Degree apprenticeships in context: Promoting equality of opportunity; encouraging competition; and promoting quality, student choice and value for money

Chris Millward

Director (Policy)

The Studio

3 April 2017

General duties of the Office for Students

• Protect the institutional autonomy of HE providers

• Promote quality, and greater choice and opportunities for students, in the provision of higher education by English higher education providers

• Encourage competition between English higher education providers in connection with the provision of higher education where that competition is in the interests of students and employers, while also having regard to the benefits for students and employers resulting from collaboration between such providers

• Promote value for money in the provision of higher education by English higher education providers

• Promote equality of opportunity in connection with access to and participation in higher education provided by English higher education providers

Promoting equality of opportunity (1) – improving access to HE

Young (under-21) first degree entrants at HEFCE-funded HEIs

Source: HESA Student RecordNote: Full-time, UK-domiciled students only

Promoting equality of opportunity (2) – improving outcomes from HE

Unexplained percentage point difference in employment rates, by employment rate measure and POLAR3 quintile

Source: HEFCE 2015/23 ‘Differences in employment outcomes – Equality and diversity characteristics’

Promoting equality of opportunity (3) – supporting places

Geographical Variation in the Social Mobility Index, Map of performance against the Index

Source: The Social Mobility Index, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/496103/Social_Mobility_Index.pdf

Encouraging competition (1) – removing number controls

UK and other EU full-time undergraduate entrants by institution type

Source: Table 5, Column 2 in HESES and HEIFES data

Source: Table 5, Column 2 in HESES and HEIFES data

Encouraging competition (2) – enabling new providers to enter the market and grow

Encouraging competition (3) – enabling collaboration where it benefits students and employers

Promoting quality, student choice and value for money (1) – providing better information for students

Promoting quality, student choice and value for money (2) –rating quality

Student Outcomes and Learning Gain

Learning Environment

Teaching Quality

Student Engagement

Valuing Teaching

Employment and Further Study

Employability and Transferrable Skills

Positive Outcomes for All

Resources

Scholarship, Research and Professional

Practice

Personalised Learning

Rigour and Stretch

Feedback

Promoting quality, student choice and value for money (3) – developing the market

HEFCE Support

£8.5 million funding to advance developmentCross-cutting support for provider and employer engagementQuality and regulatory agreements with Ofsted and SFA

Working with UKRI and IfA

Thank you for listening

c.millward@hefce.ac.uk

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