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Writing for Wonkhe, Dave Dowland, academic registrar at Solent University, asks: how much burden does the OfS registration process bring?

"How much of a burden is this task?", he writes. "It is striking that the new “light touch” OfS looks significantly more expensive for many institutions than HEFCE. There is the cost for established institutions of making a fresh case for registration, after responding to some years of regulatory flux, with Institutional Review removed for all but alternative providers and a short-lived national quality framework, which disappeared before HE governors had time to blink."

Read the articlew in full here.