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Dr Graeme Pedlingham, the University’s Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Student Experience, has been appointed as a new independent member of the Office for Students (OfS) Quality Assessment Committee.

The Quality Assessment Committee provides advice to the OfS board on the approach to be taken by the OfS to assessing the quality of the higher education of registered providers and those providers seeking registration, as well as the grant of degree awarding powers.

Dr Pedlingham, who is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Head of Central Foundation Years at Sussex, said: “I am delighted to have been appointed to the OFS Quality Assessment Committee - this is a time of such change for the Higher Education sector, including the next steps following the recent consultation on Quality and Standards regulation. I'm very much looking forward to supporting, and helping inform, the work of the OFS through this Committee.”

About the Office for Students

The OfS are the independent regulator of higher education in England. Their work covers all students whether undergraduate or postgraduate, national or international, young or mature, full-time or part-time, studying on a campus or by distance learning. They aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.