Across the UK post-compulsory education policy is adopting a more “tertiary” approach – but how tertiary is defined shapes what happens in policy and practice. Chris Millward synthesises the reflections of an expert panel. Research and policy relating to post-compulsory education increasingly refers to a single “tertiary system” rather than separate sectors of “higher education” and “technical and vocational education and training”, or “further education” in the UK terminology. To read the Blog click here

The Office for Students (OfS) funded a ten-month action learning set project that brought together higher education and healthcare professionals to identify and solve problems around joined-up working to support student mental health. This report documents the main takeaways from the project. To read the article click here

This guidance sets out how the OfS plans to carry out the external quality assurance (EQA) of end-point assessment. This document provides operational guidance about:

• the OfS’s approach to ensuring end-point assessment organisations are ready to deliver end-point assessment
• the OfS’s approach to monitoring the quality of end-point assessment
• the assessment team
• the assessment reports.            To read the article click here