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.
A Tory MP has warned that there is opposition on his party¡¯s front bench to Les Ebdon, following criticism of his comments on the ¡°snobbery¡± surrounding university education.