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Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’

Boston university wants to develop one-to-one tutorial model as it creates ‘global university system’

London institution will take ‘formal name’ of ‘New College of the Humanities at Northeastern’

Rapid expansion of Southern New Hampshire University sparks interest but also concern

Higher education institutions too slow to adapt what and how they teach, rival says

Advtech to buy Johannesburg campus established by Monash in 2000

Regulator’s figures reveal intensive student ‘churn’ and heavy concentration in business courses

Government steps in after scams undermine consumer protection arrangements

Restrictions on access maintain high quality bar, says rector of Latin American Center for Human Economics

Funding will support Lancaster to develop curriculum for Manchester-based University Academy 92

Leaving state regulatory system might free institutions from ministers’ ‘deeply flawed’ fixation with value for money, says Frans Berkhout

Analysis of accounts of institutions receiving public funding reveals large salary, bonus and dividend payouts

Department for Education team backing those setting up new universities may reflect concern over role of Office for Students

Unions and universities worry that agreements could leave them vulnerable to for-profit competition and entrench privatisation

Private liberal arts institution gains UK degree-awarding powers

But government data predict that share of black and ethnic minority students on campuses will rise

Labour attacks department’s green light for ‘University Campus of Football Business’ name

Westlake University may be government’s pilot of more autonomous institutions, expert suggests

Quality an ‘urgent concern’ as study reveals significant growth of private sector worldwide

Overall figures for full-time undergraduates suggest growth as other institutions expand significantly

Office for Students asked to tackle huge pay awards given to leaders of private providers

'Mind-boggling' that the Department for Education does not regularly collect data on attendance, committee hears

Private equity-backed music institute trebled number of students with taxpayer-backed loans to net £24.4 million in 2016-17, new figures show

James Seymour says it is unfair to tar all private providers with the same brush following revelations of admissions fraud at one college

BBC films education agent offering to 'take care' of students' attendance and assignments

Profit should not be a ‘dirty word’ in education, says former Manchester United and England star

Senior QAA reviewer claims it is unfair to compare alternative providers to universities when they charge different fees

Public spending watchdog calls for action on high dropout rates and payments to ‘ineligible’ students

Students on course forced to find alternative programmes, as government plans to open English sector further to new 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