Policies, Research & Consultations

Policy Documents

MEG responds to developments in College Based Higher Education (CBHE) by responding to consultations but also undertakes and commissions selective research for the benefit of members and the wider CBHE community . We also publish articles designed to stimulate discussion and raise awareness of CBHE matters. This section of the website includes:

● a selection of our Consultation responses;

● examples of documents drafted by MEG, sometimes jointly with other agencies, and;

● a selection of research publications including an overview of CBHE, Scholarly Activity,

Progression to HE, leadership in HE in FE, higher level Apprenticeships etc

Individual MEG member colleges have an active interest in research and scholarly activity and many hold annual HE in FE research conferences in partnership with their local universities. Examples of work completed in-house by HE teaching staff will be posted on this part of the site.

Research Documents

MEG members contribute significantly to the research that is undertaken about College based HE. As a group we have been funded to write a number of papers or research documents and these can be found in the sub menus for this section of the website. For ease of access, the most recent is listed first.

Members’ Small Scale Research Projects -see separate sub headings in the top menu

MEG Research Projects have been catalogued into the separate headings in the top menu

MEG’s response to consultations affecting HE in FE can be found here:-

Call for evidence Approach to OfS public grant funding May 2024

Mixed Economy Group response to Disabled Student Commitment formal consultation – December 2022

MEG draft response to OfS consultation on a new approach to regulating equality of opportunity in English higher education

MEG response to OfS NSS Phase Two Consultation

TEF Consultation on the Teaching Excellence Framework & Constructing Student Outcome and Experience Indicators for use in OfS Regulation

Mixed Economy Group response to the Consultation on OfS Strategy (2022-25)

MEG response to OfS consultation on regulating quality and standards in Higher Education (Jan. 2021)

Uni Connect Consultation

MEG response to the OfS on the integrity of the HE sector May 2020