Regent¡¯s College will become the latest private provider to gain university status, with the charitable institution hoping to boost its international prospects and join Universities UK as a result.
Regent¡¯s College is to take over the American InterContinental University London in what is thought to be the first UK acquisition of a for-profit by a not-for-profit higher education provider.
The University of Gloucestershire has agreed to validate a range of pre-degree courses for international students as part of a new tie-up with private firm INTO University Partnerships.
The promotion of student employability by universities is ¡°a problem¡± and the growing power of the student voice amounts to ¡°surveillance¡± of lecturers, an academic has warned.
The critics of private-sector higher education can muster plenty of hostility - even hatred - towards its providers but precious few reasoned arguments, according to Peter Crisp
Taxpayer-backed funding for students at private colleges rose by 138 per cent to ?100 million last year, with a private equity-owned institution that did not meet all quality standards accounting for more than a fifth of that total.