Regulatory information

St Mary’s University, Twickenham, adheres to the requirements of the Office for Students Regulatory Framework and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) UK Quality Code for Higher Education, as well as other external regulatory and legislative requirements. This section sees the publication of the responses to regulatory and sector requirements relating to these bodies.

Access and participation plans set out how higher education providers will improve equality of opportunity for underrepresented groups to access, succeed in and progress from higher education.

View the most recent St Mary’s University, Twickenham variation to the Access and Participation plan, submitted to the OfS in July 2022.

View the Access and Participation Plan summary.

View all of our previous agreements.

Each year, in accordance with the OfS guidance on Access and Participation Plans (regulatory notice one), the OfS expects providers to publish fee information on their website alongside their Access and Participation Plan. View St Mary’s OfS fee information for 2023/24 - our maximum fee limits can be found on pages 151 to 152.

In May 2019, the sector-representative bodies for higher education in the UK published a Statement of Intent, reaffirming their commitment to protect the value of UK degrees and to transparent, consistent, and fair academic standards. The Statement of Intent explained how providers in the different nations of the UK would take different approaches towards their common goal of protecting the value of degrees, reflecting their differing national quality assessment arrangements. The UKSCQA is, with the backing of UUK & Guild HE, encouraging providers in England and Wales to publish degree outcome statements.

Download St Mary’s University Degree Outcome Statement for 2022 (Word)

The University is committed to ensure that students achieve the best academic outcomes from their studies. The Student Protection Plan aims to mitigate risks and protect the students’ interests in the case of material change, e.g. programme changes or suspensions.

St Mary’s University Student Protection Plan (PDF)

Appendix: Major Incident and Business Continuity Plan (PDF)

The OfS requires St Mary’s University, as part of Condition of Registration F1 (transparency information), to publish Transparency 2022 data on the University’s external website.