Regulatory Partnership Group

It was known as the Interim Regulatory Partnership Group for the first nine months of its existence.

Keep in touch via our e-mail alerts and visit the Spring Conference 2013 web page.

The RPG's membership is drawn from the public bodies involved in implementing the changes to the funding and regulatory frameworks of English higher education. This follows a request in the ministerial letter of 13 June 2012 to HEFCE and the Student Loans Company.

Work programme

RPG has designed a work programme to implement the planned changes. It is made up of four elements:

• Developing an operating framework 
  The operating framework will set out the roles, responsibilities, relationships and accountabilities of the various organisations involved in the regulation of HE in England. 
• Developing the successor to HEFCE’s Financial Memorandum (FM)
  This will reflect the changing landscape of higher education funding and accountabilities.
• Redesigning the data and information landscape
  A project to enhance the arrangements for the collection, sharing and dissemination of data and information about the HE system.
• Investigating constitutions and corporate forms  
  This project will look at changing corporate forms of HE providers and their implications for the student interest, the public interest and the reputation of the HE system.

Records of meetings

The Group meets quarterly and the papers for each of its meetings are available below. The most recent papers appear first.

Further information

For further information please contact Kath Thompson (k.thompson@hefce.ac.uk).

Page last updated 4 April 2013