Higher education regulation
Incoming conditions require institutions hoping to access student loan funding to be upfront about course changes and compensation processes
Regulation proposed after concerns about quality but critics say it presents ‘individual solutions to collective problem’
Regulator reviewing processes after administrative mix-up weeks before applications set to reopen
Institutions including Liverpool and Southampton to continue to ‘discourage’, rather than prohibit, staff-student relationships despite new regulations, as others opt for partial bans
Buckinghamshire New University ‘still wants to do franchising but not be reliant on it’, says Damien Page
Several student protection directions active in last financial year, with 71 institutions subjected to formal monitoring