As the Office for Students (OfS) publishes an evaluation report into its three-year validation project with the Open University, Alastair Wilson reflects on project learnings and a new way of working for the OfS. Today we have published an independent evaluation report by Ecorys into our three-year validation project (2022 to 2025) with the Open University (OU) – so it’s a good moment for us to consider what we’ve learned and how we plan to take these insights forward.