Regulators

Regulators for education:

·     Department of education

·     Office for standards in education, children’s services, and skills (Ofsted)

·     Office of qualification and examinations regulations (Ofqual)

·     Office For Students (OFS)

Department of education:

·      Government is responsible for education in England, for children’s services and education (early years, schools, higher & further education policy, apprenticeships, and wider skills)

·      It also produces statutory guidance around legislation to influence how we work within education and childcare

·      Key responsibilities for teaching and learning in education

Office for standards in education, children’s services, and skills (Ofsted):

·      Ofsted works to keep babies, children, and young people safe, and to promote high standards in education and childcare

·      Ofsted inspects and regulates registered settings in education and childcare to raise standards, and ensure that babies, children’s young people and adults who are accessing education receive the best possible teaching and learning

·      Inspections are carried out regularly to maintain standards, set action plans and support and consistency quality in practice

Office of qualification and examinations regulations (Ofqual)

·      Regulates qualifications, examinations, and assessments, in England

·      A wide range of qualifications that are submitted by awarding organisation (exam boards) for regulations

·      Ofqual has a responsibility to check that the qualification meets appropriate standards

·      Those teachers and students have all the information they need to deliver the qualification successfully

·      Consider how well the qualifications prepare students for the next stages; this is the sometimes referred to as how ‘fit for purposes’ the qualifications are.

Office For Students (OFS)

·      Make sure standard are being maintained, to raise concerns and action plan where they are not, and track and monitor any action implemented to deal with this

·      Ofs is the independent regulator of higher education in education in England

·      Concerned with teaching and learning in universities or training centres delivering undergraduate or postgraduate programmes