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Alternative providers should also be able to charge £9,000 tuition fees, says government

Distinction between two types of institution ‘not helpful’ for continent, say senior African university figures

Weiming Education Group, the largest provider of private schools in China, is branching out into the US

Investing in the education of millions of young people can help defuse a security time bomb, argue Faisal Abbas and Abdur Rehman Cheema

China’s motives, like the West’s, are mixed, but it clearly has a role to play in building capacity in African higher education

Frontrunner for Democratic nomination has talked tough on for-profit colleges but will her links to the industry prevent her taking action? Michael Stratford reports for Inside Higher Ed 

Improvements required in two out of four areas at college where students claimed £259 million in state loans in three years

For-profit college head Paul Kirkham calls for ‘respectful’ treatment of private providers

Lord Willetts tells event it is hard to see how governments can fund expansion on necessary scale

Comments come amid debate over whether to permit for-profit institutions to operate in the country

Records of former Buckingham vice-chancellor’s suggestion at 1985 seminar released by National Archives

First foray into Germany for the owner of University of Phoenix

Concerns about course at for-profit GSM, one of country's biggest private colleges, found to be 'justified'

Clinical evidence on osteopathy ‘fails to show convincingly’ it works, claims critic after private BSO wins Hefce designation

Durham pro vice-chancellor warns that institutions would be forced to challenge a worse-than-expected judgement

A. C. Grayling says private college plans offer ‘greater choice and improved quality’ 

Some of the key points to take away from the government’s consultation on the future of universities

Fifteen per cent of recommendations issued to further education colleges by watchdog relate to courses leading to the FTSE 100 firm’s qualifications

One of England’s biggest private colleges admitted students ‘who could not complete’ programmes, finds Quality Assurance Agency

BIS aims to step up competition for universities from new providers – but questions remain about impact on UK higher education

Watchdog says only one in five of a cohort of students at London-based Grafton College of Management Sciences on course to complete qualification on time

UKVI takes action against one of England’s largest private colleges

Sector needs national standards and more industry links to drive and sustain economy, say experts

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Eversheds partner says that link-ups could span borders in the UK and overseas

New College of the Humanities and Pearson are seen as potential beneficiaries of Productivity Plan

Senior figure at UN-established agency questions role of for-profits and says universities should be at centre of debates on continent's future

A. C. Grayling’s ‘Oxbridge-style’ private college strikes agreement with post-92 institution

We talk to the lawyer, academic, former pro-chancellor and founder of a private university in Nigeria

Changes to degree-awarding powers that will step up competition for universities heralded in Productivity Plan

Department confirms work to find savings is ongoing, but offers no details on George Osborne’s Budget pledge to bring in ‘new entrants’, says John Morgan

ABI College investigation finds only two of 45-strong cohort have achieved intended qualifications

Navitas says enrolment down by 13 per cent in second semester of 2015

The government says it will help ensure that there is “minimal to disruption to students” at the University of Law and that “its high quality of education is upheld” following the purchase

A private college paid almost £2 million a year in public student loans has been criticised by the Quality Assurance Agency, despite being cleared of academic fraud.

Two government departments and watchdog investigate St Patrick’s College

The government encouraged private colleges to grow “without sufficient regulation in place to protect public money” and a senior civil servant should have opposed the policy, according to MPs

Private college seeking designation invested £3 million after being told it needed to inject further funding

Private providers have been asked to help prepare the government for a key hearing on private higher education just days before it happens

Alfred Morris argues that alternative providers, criticised by the National Audit Office, aren’t the villains they’re made out to be.

Private not-for-profits don’t deserve to be tarred with the same brush as some Johnny-come-latelys, says Phil Deans

Council members absent from vote on venture with for-profit firm

Inquiry into 24 private institutions is triggered by ‘potential irregularities’