UK Regulator Embeds DEI Mandates

The Office for Students is portrayed as using extensive powers to push diversity, equity, and inclusion into university selection and curricula. Combined with fee reliance on international students, this shifts universities toward compliance and branding over scholarship, resembling 'quangocracies' (state‑adjacent NGOs). — It reframes higher‑ed decline as a governance design problem—regulatory incentives and political mandates—rather than isolated campus culture.