Regulation
We regulate fee levels at higher education providers, ensure a framework is in place for assessing the quality of higher education and scrutinise the performance of designated providers.
HEFCW has specific regulatory duties relating to:
- monitoring higher education institutions’ compliance with fee and access plans
- assessing the quality of education
- preparing and consulting on a new Financial Management Code, and monitoring institutions’ compliance with the Code
- providing information and advice to Welsh Ministers.
Course designation
Only institutions with automatic designation or specific designation will have their courses eligible for student support.
Fee and access plans
Any institution that wishes for its full-time undergraduate courses to be automatically designated for student support must submit a fee and access plan to HEFCW.
Quality assessment
The Quality Assessment Framework for Wales assures us of the quality of education at HE providers.
