Motion
- Motion title
- Stop Office for Students Attacks on Post-16 Education
- Session
- 2023-2024
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2024
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- B35
- Motion text
Congress notes
§ Rishi Sunak's announcement on 29 May that if the Conservatives win the next election they will give the Office for Students (OfS) power to close so-called 'rip-off' degrees
§ FE colleges providing vocational degree programmes and post-92 HE institutions would likely be at greatest risk of being targeted by the OfS, with serious equalities implications for staff and students
§ Labour has not offered any assurances in response to UCU's call to abolish the OfS (on grounds of 'authoritarian' free speech guidance and complicity in Prevent
Congress believes:
§ that we cannot delay acting on this announcement, and that we cannot be certain that Labour will either win the general election or abolish the OfS.
Congress resolves:
§ to publicly state that UCU does not recognise the legitimacy of the Office for Students as a decision-making body, and to boycott its research, guidance, and advice.
- Proposing body
- Composite (The Open University; University of Warwick; University of Sussex; Oldham College; University of Exeter; University of East Anglia; Swansea University; University of Wales Trinity Saint David; LSE; Luminate Education Group; University of the Wes
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2024/C/05-29/084/B35