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Private providers needed to fills gaps for working adults even as government focuses on public sector

Pilot and engineer training provider suddenly enters administration after operating for 90 years, with most courses ending immediately

Now-closed private provider also documented education students working in cafes, clothes shops and building firms as part of their course

Proliferation of for-profit providers sparks concerns of ¡®abusive practices¡¯ including misrepresentation and tuition fee fraud

Chinese students are crucial to Thailand¡¯s international education ambitions, but quality concerns pose a risk

Institutions with more than 300 students to be subjected to new rules as part of planned government ¡®crackdown¡¯ on poor-quality provision

¡®Anti-woke¡¯ James Tooley back in charge at private institution as ¡®serious allegations¡¯ dismissed

Buckinghamshire New leader says regulator needs to take stronger action on subcontracted courses

Institutions falling short of recruitment targets will have to reform in order to receive subsidies, with extra on offer to those which merge

Cintana targets growing Indian market as presence grows among private universities and education investors

Some educators worry new arrangement could leave them worse off than planned thresholds, but government says it is ¡®well placed¡¯ to alleviate visa delays

Regulator accused of ¡®dereliction of duty¡¯ and faces potential legal action after temporarily shutting down key processes

Multi-pronged government crackdown succeeds where coronavirus and international financial crises failed

Driven more by pragmatism than purism, Asia¡¯s new wave of industry-linked universities is shaking up the sector

¡®Invisible regulators¡¯ to ask harder questions of UK sector investment decisions, professor claims

Private colleges set to be hit with punitive limits on overseas recruitment, despite being among the top performers in government-commissioned surveys

Ensure that your exit causes minimal inconvenience, regulator tells private colleges

Japanese women¡¯s institution decided not to go ahead with nursing school after ministry pushback, but had already hired faculty

Booming business school that withheld 20 per cent of lecturers¡¯ pay unless they passed nearly all students is heavily criticised by watchdog

Reputable colleges stripped of students while thousands of places go to institutions focusing elsewhere or facing closure 

Some universities pressurising students to stay on unsuitable courses, risking their reputations in pursuit of fees, OfS report highlights

Partnerships and flexibility seen as key to company¡¯s continued growth but others may struggle to follow in its path

Structurally disadvantaged in teaching Australian students, new private colleges face international enrolment veto until they have taught domestic students

Applied Business Academy faces scrutiny over management and governance arrangements, as well as data reporting

Outspoken enemy of sector regulators steps down as principal of private college, more than six decades after entering higher education sector

University says donation was meant to have been made personally by Ravi Gill, owner of the operating company

Hefty pay packages and patchy record on declaring financial data should prompt tougher scrutiny of for-profit sector, says critic

Private equity firm that owns one of the UK¡¯s few private universities seeking to make triple its initial investment in latest deal

London Interdisciplinary School has geared its courses around tackling real-world challenges, but some students seem reluctant to step outside the traditional higher education sector

Multinational conglomerates have long been in the university business, but can they really compete when it comes to impact? 

In latest intervention by conservative-dominated judiciary, proprietary schools temporarily avoid seeing student loan eligibility tied to period of degree requirements

Current over-regulation is stifling innovation in a sector that has the potential to become just as renowned as UK higher education, says Alex Proudfoot

Private providers make biggest payouts to departing principals

Quality regulation poses the biggest challenge as Bangladesh moves to expand PhD courses to private universities

Philadelphia city officials probe University of the Arts shutdown, in sign that policymakers might see the need to go beyond their habit of only protecting their publics

Academics attempt to move to public universities as private institutions hardest hit by declining enrolment

Inventor¡¯s Wiltshire-based training centre is first to go through new Office for Students process

Kyriakos Pierrakakis tells THE that controversial reforms will help to make country a higher education destination

Committee urges new transparency data, strengthened oversight and guidance on how big a cut of tuition fee universities should take

Undergraduates at Nigeria¡¯s Covenant University enjoy their classes on how to have a happy marriage, says leader

New legislation will allow private universities to issue degrees and international institutes to open Greek branches

Sector leaders hint at coming regulation at often-chaotic Public Accounts Committee hearing

University¡¯s subcontracted courses first to come under greater scrutiny from Office for Students

Sector should embrace ¡®light touch¡¯ regulation of subcontracted courses, argue leaders of Buckinghamshire New University

With Public Accounts Committee hearing to come, concerns over subcontracted courses will only become louder

University courses franchised to colleges accounted for 53 per cent of ?4.1 million of fraud detected by SLC last year, says public spending watchdog

Good for the goose but not the gander, after college¡¯s university-standard performance failed to earn it sub-university branding

Amid yawning teacher shortages and one-sided funding regime, colleges warn that their successful model of localised training faces collapse

Famed for its focus on ethics, Ghana¡¯s Ashesi puts new focus on demographic shifts, health and climate change

Representative groups broadly welcome focus on quality and integrity, but proposed changes to migration points test will be pivotal

Most Grand Canyon University students on affected programmes had to pay as much as $12,000 (?10,000) more than advertised, says Department of Education

New millennium has wrought ¡®transformational¡¯ change on Australian higher education, and much of it has been ¡®negative¡¯, seminar hears

There are doubts about the education ministry¡¯s proposed quality measures, with major players warning firmer guardrails will be needed to protect the public purse and baffled school-leavers from bad operators

In a busy decade following two decades of inaction, the ranks of institutions bearing the ¡®university¡¯ title has expanded at almost one a year

Inaugural league table reveals strong performance by institutions beyond wealthy South Africa, with public universities outperforming private ones in four pillars

The University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa leads first ever THE ranking for the region

¡®AI teaching leader¡¯ IU, majority owned by private equity firm, adds Canadian university to portfolio alongside London banking education provider

Once-largest US online university, embracing new public partner after Arkansas rejection, agrees its for-profit sector deserves scrutiny

More prepared to pay for education because of innovations in flexible learning, despite demographic shifts that are harming public sector

Fears over reputation and secrecy deal major setback to online US university's once-promising bid for traditional higher ed partner