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      Buyers likely to require drastic changes to move ahead with sale, experts say, as institution seeks to move on from torrid year
       
  
      Concerns raised over proposals that would allow the OfS to halt payments to franchised providers without investigation
       
  
      Institution at centre of franchising debate says it has lost all its students since courses de-designated
       
  
      Ex-employees threaten legal action after collapse of private provider leaves salaries unpaid
       
  
      Institution singled out by minister because of ‘recruitment and attendance’ concerns experienced an ‘obvious injustice’, says leader
       
  
      Latest tweaks to international education rules accentuate gap between treatment of public universities and increasingly desperate private colleges
       
  
      Regulation proposed after concerns about quality but critics say it presents ‘individual solutions to collective problem’
       
  
      Visa fee hikes and processing delays achieved scuttled legislation’s goals to limit incoming students, data suggests
       
  
      Office for Students (OfS) proposes to create new condition of registration as some partnerships ‘still being mismanaged’
       
  
      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 91茄子 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