Private higher education providers
Courses at Brit College de-designated as investigation into quality concerns continues
Buckinghamshire New University ends partnership ties with three institutions as it attempts to ‘remove its reliance’ on subcontracting
English regulator tells institution its checks and oversight were insufficient after subcontracted provision tripled in two years
Unregistered providers account for more than half of franchised tuition fee money claimed in past three years, new figures show
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson takes action over concerns about attendance and recruitment at Oxford Business College
Private providers needed to fills gaps for working adults even as government focuses on public sector
Pilot and engineer training provider suddenly enters administration after operating for 90 years, with most courses ending immediately
Now-closed private provider also documented education students working in cafes, clothes shops and building firms as part of their course
Proliferation of for-profit providers sparks concerns of ‘abusive practices’ including misrepresentation and tuition fee fraud
Chinese students are crucial to Thailand’s international education ambitions, but quality concerns pose a risk
Institutions with more than 300 students to be subjected to new rules as part of planned government ‘crackdown’ on poor-quality provision
‘Anti-woke’ James Tooley back in charge at private institution as ‘serious allegations’ dismissed
Buckinghamshire New leader says regulator needs to take stronger action on subcontracted courses
Institutions falling short of recruitment targets will have to reform in order to receive subsidies, with extra on offer to those which merge
Cintana targets growing Indian market as presence grows among private universities and education investors
Some educators worry new arrangement could leave them worse off than planned thresholds, but government says it is ‘well placed’ to alleviate visa delays
Regulator accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ and faces potential legal action after temporarily shutting down key processes
Multi-pronged government crackdown succeeds where coronavirus and international financial crises failed
Driven more by pragmatism than purism, Asia’s new wave of industry-linked universities is shaking up the sector
‘Invisible regulators’ to ask harder questions of UK sector investment decisions, professor claims
Private colleges set to be hit with punitive limits on overseas recruitment, despite being among the top performers in government-commissioned surveys
Ensure that your exit causes minimal inconvenience, regulator tells private colleges
Japanese women’s institution decided not to go ahead with nursing school after ministry pushback, but had already hired faculty
Booming business school that withheld 20 per cent of lecturers’ pay unless they passed nearly all students is heavily criticised by watchdog
Reputable colleges stripped of students while thousands of places go to institutions focusing elsewhere or facing closure
Some universities pressurising students to stay on unsuitable courses, risking their reputations in pursuit of fees, OfS report highlights
Partnerships and flexibility seen as key to company’s continued growth but others may struggle to follow in its path
Structurally disadvantaged in teaching Australian students, new private colleges face international enrolment veto until they have taught domestic students
Applied Business Academy faces scrutiny over management and governance arrangements, as well as data reporting
Outspoken enemy of sector regulators steps down as principal of private college, more than six decades after entering higher education sector
University says donation was meant to have been made personally by Ravi Gill, owner of the operating company
Hefty pay packages and patchy record on declaring financial data should prompt tougher scrutiny of for-profit sector, says critic
Private equity firm that owns one of the UK’s few private universities seeking to make triple its initial investment in latest deal
London Interdisciplinary School has geared its courses around tackling real-world challenges, but some students seem reluctant to step outside the traditional higher education sector
Multinational conglomerates have long been in the university business, but can they really compete when it comes to impact?
In latest intervention by conservative-dominated judiciary, proprietary schools temporarily avoid seeing student loan eligibility tied to period of degree requirements
Current over-regulation is stifling innovation in a sector that has the potential to become just as renowned as UK higher education, says Alex Proudfoot
Private providers make biggest payouts to departing principals
Quality regulation poses the biggest challenge as Bangladesh moves to expand PhD courses to private universities
Academics attempt to move to public universities as private institutions hardest hit by declining enrolment
Philadelphia city officials probe University of the Arts shutdown, in sign that policymakers might see the need to go beyond their habit of only protecting their publics
Inventor’s Wiltshire-based training centre is first to go through new Office for Students process
Kyriakos Pierrakakis tells THE that controversial reforms will help to make country a higher education destination
Committee urges new transparency data, strengthened oversight and guidance on how big a cut of tuition fee universities should take
Undergraduates at Nigeria’s Covenant University enjoy their classes on how to have a happy marriage, says leader
New legislation will allow private universities to issue degrees and international institutes to open Greek branches
Sector leaders hint at coming regulation at often-chaotic Public Accounts Committee hearing
University’s subcontracted courses first to come under greater scrutiny from Office for Students
Sector should embrace ‘light touch’ regulation of subcontracted courses, argue leaders of Buckinghamshire New University
With Public Accounts Committee hearing to come, concerns over subcontracted courses will only become louder
University courses franchised to colleges accounted for 53 per cent of ?4.1 million of fraud detected by SLC last year, says public spending watchdog
Good for the goose but not the gander, after college’s university-standard performance failed to earn it sub-university branding
Amid yawning teacher shortages and one-sided funding regime, colleges warn that their successful model of localised training faces collapse
Famed for its focus on ethics, Ghana’s Ashesi puts new focus on demographic shifts, health and climate change
Representative groups broadly welcome focus on quality and integrity, but proposed changes to migration points test will be pivotal
Most Grand Canyon University students on affected programmes had to pay as much as $12,000 (?10,000) more than advertised, says Department of Education
New millennium has wrought ‘transformational’ change on Australian higher education, and much of it has been ‘negative’, seminar hears
There are doubts about the education ministry’s proposed quality measures, with major players warning firmer guardrails will be needed to protect the public purse and baffled school-leavers from bad operators
In a busy decade following two decades of inaction, the ranks of institutions bearing the ‘university’ title has expanded at almost one a year
Inaugural league table reveals strong performance by institutions beyond wealthy South Africa, with public universities outperforming private ones in four pillars
