Foreign investment or buyout touted as potential route out of financial woe for institutions, while others see âmulti-university groupsâ as more viable
Struggling financially, the private Jacobs University is seeking new backers, but academics have been left shocked by plans for it to be turned into an AI institute by software giants
Experts question whether proposals to give chartered status to private institutions and encourage international branch campuses will deliver quality education
Office for Studentsâ judgement that for-profit college was ânot financially viableâ raises questions of why Department for Education extended funding access last year
Conversations with students at the failed for-profit provider reveal much about its business model and the Department for Educationâs judgement, writes John Morgan
GSM Londonâs slide into administration leaves difficult questions for DfE on why it granted the college continued loan access last year, writes John Morgan
The Advertising Standards Authority is wrong to permit to any provider of training to graduates to declare itself a âgraduate schoolâ, says Viv Ellis
Despite its tarnished reputation and history of collapsed ventures, the for-profit sector retains a strong foothold on the US academy. Paul Basken tracks its successes and failures
Principal of joint venture between ex-Manchester United players and Lancaster University discusses how he answers the question: âarenât you making a lot of rich people even richer?â
College has been âlimited and frustratedâ by UKâs âregulatory labyrinthâ and âpressure to conformâ with âconservativeâ universities, says founder