Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice

Overview

The consultation on higher education entitled Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice sets out a broad range of proposals to reshape the higher education landscape to have students at its heart.  Its core aims are to raise teaching standards, provide greater focus on graduate employability, widen participation in higher education, and open up the sector to new high-quality entrants.

We are seeking views on proposals to:

• introduce a Teaching Excellence Framework that will deliver better value for money for students, employers and taxpayers
• increase access and success in higher education participation for those from disadvantaged and under-represented groups
• create a new single gateway for entry to the sector and create common system for all providers
• establish a new Office for Students to promote the student interest and ensure value for money and to reduce the regulatory burden on the sector.

The consultation also considers the potential implications of these changes for the research landscape.  

Why we are consulting

We welcome your views to inform the further development of our plans and proposals. We encourage everyone with an interest to participate in the consultation.