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<p>The Office for Students (OfS) holds providers to account for delivering well-designed
courses that offer successful outcomes for all of their students, and has a statutory
duty to promote quality, and greater choice and opportunities for students.</p><p>
</p><p>Universities and other higher education (HE) providers are planning a range
of changes to the degree classification system to ensure public confidence in the
results students receive and the value of a degree. The consultation process for these
changes is nearing its response phase.</p><p> </p><p>The new OfS regulatory framework
removes unnecessary barriers to entry for high quality new providers with the aim
of increasing diversity, competition and innovation in the sector.</p><p> </p><p>The
Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is a national exercise that
recognises excellent teaching and student outcomes. Four HE institutions in Yorkshire
and the Humber hold the gold TEF award and seven the silver.</p><p> </p><p>Students’
ability to make informed choices is at the heart of the HE reform agenda with prospective
students free to make choices to apply to providers in any part of the country. The
TEF is supporting student choice.</p><p> </p><p>We are also improving the online offering
for students, working alongside OfS to redesign the HE course comparison website,
Unistats, by September 2019.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we launched the Higher Education
Open Data competition last year for technology companies and coders to design an innovative
digital tool to make it easier for prospective students to access valuable data on
salaries and employability. Two winning technology companies have now developed two
digital tools to level the playing field for all students, by giving them access to
graduate outcomes data at their fingertips.</p><p> </p>
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