Private providers

Critics claim move makes it 'too easy' for new providers to use ‘university’ in name

Countries worldwide are grappling with the challenge of expanding higher education with limited resources while maintaining quality 

Class of ’92 to set up alternative provider teaching business, media and sport

Ministers back University of Law, Arden sales to Netherlands-registered GUS, as BPP decision awaited

Paper highlights possible negative impact of performance-related funding and for-profit universities on widening participation  

HMRC claims reorganisation of for-profit university’s owner may represent ‘abuse’ of VAT rules

Independent Higher Education survey indicates that new providers will look to compete with established universities in future

University of Buckingham and University of Law grab top ratings in UK’s new teaching assessment

Indiana public higher education institution eyes for-profit online provider’s technological expertise

New data allow greater scrutiny of student retention in England’s ‘challenger’ institutions

All three of England’s for-profit universities owned in Netherlands

Leading scholar says many countries have ‘neither the will nor the capacity’ to manage growth

Lords may insist on changes if they scent chance of overturning UK government’s slim Commons majority

Cramming study into the shortest possible time will impoverish the student experience and drive an even greater wedge between research-enabled permanent staff and the growing underclass of flexible teaching staff, says Tom Cutterham

Peers back further amendments to Higher Education and Research Bill

Institution’s university title and degree-awarding powers to be looked at

Country looks to private sector to increase student numbers even further

Stephen Hunt explores what The Donald means for for-profit universities 

Despite having some questions about how the bill will be implemented, Douglas Blackstock believes it is a force for good

John Morgan looks at what Trump U fraud claims could mean for US president-elect Donald Trump

Yeon-Cheon Oh says serving society can be as rewarding as getting rich

Recent graduates teach at three to four universities a day to make ends meet, researcher finds during stint observing country’s private HE system

Association of American Universities president also says state of US public universities is like battle to save species from extinction

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

As Ipswich institution gains independence, Richard Lister says it is ‘absolutely right’ that new providers go through ‘proper level of scrutiny’

New College of the Humanities seeks £8.5 million while BPP University could be set for new ownership

For-profit online specialist joins University of Law, St Patrick's and LSBF in GUS

UK should introduce ‘much tighter regulations’ on private colleges, say CGHE researchers

Smaller, newer alternative providers are less likely to pass higher education review, analysis says

For-profit college stripped of right to receive public funds

Alternative medicine institution Anglo-European College of Chiropractic gets QAA thumbs up

Progress needed on equity, quality assurance and research, says University of Chile academic

Stagnation in university recruitment accounts for £5 billion of shortfall, UKCISA conference told

We have reached a key moment in the development of the region's higher education sector, says Ismail Badat

But MillionPlus claims government risks ‘dodgy narrative’ on alternative providers

QAA finds lax entry standards at Cardiff college formerly led by principal with ‘falsified’ PhD

Rebuffing claims that opening up sector will endanger its reputation, minister says ‘we have heard these concerns before’

BIS-commissioned study charts rapid growth of sector and raises questions over student outcomes

Experts mull over Jo Johnson’s aim to open sector to foreign companies and universities

Alternative providers should also be able to charge £9,000 tuition fees, says government

Distinction between two types of institution ‘not helpful’ for continent, say senior African university figures

Weiming Education Group, the largest provider of private schools in China, is branching out into the US

China’s motives, like the West’s, are mixed, but it clearly has a role to play in building capacity in African higher education

Investing in the education of millions of young people can help defuse a security time bomb, argue Faisal Abbas and Abdur Rehman Cheema

Frontrunner for Democratic nomination has talked tough on for-profit colleges but will her links to the industry prevent her taking action? Michael Stratford reports for Inside Higher Ed 

Improvements required in two out of four areas at college where students claimed £259 million in state loans in three years

For-profit college head Paul Kirkham calls for ‘respectful’ treatment of private providers

Lord Willetts tells event it is hard to see how governments can fund expansion on necessary scale

Comments come amid debate over whether to permit for-profit institutions to operate in the country

Records of former Buckingham vice-chancellor’s suggestion at 1985 seminar released by National Archives

First foray into Germany for the owner of University of Phoenix

Concerns about course at for-profit GSM, one of country's biggest private colleges, found to be 'justified'

Clinical evidence on osteopathy ‘fails to show convincingly’ it works, claims critic after private BSO wins Hefce designation

Durham pro vice-chancellor warns that institutions would be forced to challenge a worse-than-expected judgement

A. C. Grayling says private college plans offer ‘greater choice and improved quality’ 

Some of the key points to take away from the government’s consultation on the future of universities

Fifteen per cent of recommendations issued to further education colleges by watchdog relate to courses leading to the FTSE 100 firm’s qualifications

One of England’s biggest private colleges admitted students ‘who could not complete’ programmes, finds Quality Assurance Agency

BIS aims to step up competition for universities from new providers – but questions remain about impact on UK higher education