Private providers

Senate committee inquiry extended as members scrutinise impacts on vocational colleges

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

The University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa leads first ever THE ranking for the region

‘AI teaching leader’ IU, majority owned by private equity firm, adds Canadian university to portfolio alongside London banking education provider

Once-largest US online university, embracing new public partner after Arkansas rejection, agrees its for-profit sector deserves scrutiny

More prepared to pay for education because of innovations in flexible learning, despite demographic shifts that are harming public sector

Fears over reputation and secrecy deal major setback to online US university's once-promising bid for traditional higher ed partner

In ongoing retreat from February order that alarmed higher education, Biden officials cancel third-party restrictions

Executives at private course supply giant provided testimonials to government in their roles as former students

Agents posing as students will look for a wide range of legal violations, with for-profit sector especially alarmed

Online education firm chaired by former universities minister brings in Global University Systems staffer

Buyer displays ‘confidence’ in Australasian student flows, as vendor exits region

Once the largest US online university, for-profit has been arguing without luck that it’s a last best chance to enter fast-growing world of adult training

With public rivals putting a ceiling on tuition fees, the demands of debt servicing and digitisation mean private schools must keep growing to avoid mergers or bankruptcy

Academics warn of ‘collapse’ of higher education system after Taliban forces 70,000 female students out of private universities

Financial statements, when eventually published, revealed ‘material uncertainty’ over institution’s ability to keep running and £17 million deficit 

Applicants turn away from public campuses, but external perceptions of the country as ‘failed state’ could put off overseas institutions from forming new collaborations

Biden-backed settlement benefits 200,000 students from 153 institutions, largely in the for-profit sector, with no expectation taxpayers will be reimbursed for the losses

Successful applications from south Asia fall off a cliff, as authorities struggle to distinguish genuine students from those with other things on their minds

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Government plan for half of all graduates to major in sciences by 2032 ‘difficult to realise’ for private, humanities-focused institutions, academics say

US education firm involving ASU has 12 global partners and foresees future growth bringing scope to collect student learning data on mass scale

‘Reassessment of his priorities’ said to be behind swift departure of former West of Scotland leader

‘Anyone who thinks the university is in good shape is deluded,’ says former Morgan Stanley executive in resignation letter

Office for Students accounts also confirm £915,000 payment to for-profit college that successfully challenged refusal of registration in court

Private university recorded £17 million deficit in 2019 and a potential £119,000 fine for late filing of accounts, as Crewe campus left problems