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Private provider withdraws from OfS registration process as regulator criticises its plans to offer â€˜master’s degrees’

System being pushed to the brink as sharp increase in number of students not matched by investment in teaching capacity, report highlights

Growing industry of companies offering students help in navigating misconduct proceedings operates in â€˜regulatory and ethical grey zone’

Strong institutions can help contribute to country’s development as it grapples with violence and uncertainty, say members of new oversight body

Regulator finds university failed to ‘exercise proper control’ of one of its external assessment centres

The UK government’s recent skills White Paper announced a review of ‘the merits of the sector continuing to use the external examining system for ensuring rigorous standards in assessments’. Four academics offer their views on whether it passes or fails that test

Allegations of corruption and concerns about academic integrity will not be addressed without frank conversations, says university president

Academics claim teaching practices at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University fail to live up to UK standards, with concerns over class sizes, grade inflation and language use highlighting the challenges of delivering British degrees in China

Two London universities deemed to have breached new rules on safeguarding qualifications as regulator sounds alarm over how degree classifications are calculated

Universities would look to ‘game’ new metric for testing learning gain, critics warn, with external examination defended as ‘best we’ve got’

Concerns raised over proposals that would allow the OfS to halt payments to franchised providers without investigation

Institution at centre of franchising debate says it has lost all its students since courses de-designated

Lovely Professional University students protest over delayed classes, overcrowded hostels and questions about placements

Institution singled out by minister because of â€˜recruitment and attendance’ concerns experienced an ‘obvious injustice’, says leader

Regulation proposed after concerns about quality but critics say it presents ‘individual solutions to collective problem’

As student visa restrictions mount and domestic fee income declines, interest in transnational education is growing. But while the quality of domestic higher education is often tightly regulated, overseas provision can be a very different story. Helen Packer reports 

Wage metric can help better measure student outcomes, concludes long-awaited study commissioned by the UK government

English regulator tells institution its checks and oversight were insufficient after subcontracted provision tripled in two years

Amount paid out to English and Welsh students more than doubles in a year, driven by cases involving ‘serious disruption’ and ‘misleading information’

Unregistered providers account for more than half of franchised tuition fee money claimed in past three years, new figures show

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson takes action over concerns about attendance and recruitment at Oxford Business College

Disputes over the trustworthiness of India’s state-run university rankings raise questions over quality assurance efforts, says Pushkar

Regulator heavily criticised for pausing much of its work to focus on finances announces ‘staggered’ restart in applications

Teqsa’s request for extra clout to tackle ‘systemic’ governance failures deemed too much by some, too little and late by others

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has threatened to strip the school of its accreditation

Label could be ‘first step’ towards automatically recognised continental qualification, experts suggest

Consultation launched during pause in new registrations, with pent-up demand at end of hiatus likely to be joined by franchisees affected by government reforms

Proliferation of for-profit providers sparks concerns of ‘abusive practices’ including misrepresentation and tuition fee fraud

Institutions with more than 300 students to be subjected to new rules as part of planned government â€˜crackdown’ on poor-quality provision

A handful of glistening new universities have been established in recent years by Indian industrialists and entrepreneurs. But are they sufficiently numerous, free and well funded to make a real impact on India’s patchy higher education scene? Helen Packer reports 

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

Country’s 44th university wins ruling against Teqsa as religious-based institutions shake up long-static regulatory landscape

Reading professor says a version of the Teaching Excellence Framework could provide reassurance about the quality of the UK’s transnational education courses

University required to report to English watchdog as it addresses quality concerns relating to business and management courses

Proposed strategy sets out â€˜integrated approach’ to quality, built around ‘more routine’ Teaching Excellence Framework and possible realignment with European standards

Equity, quality control and excess competition among areas of concern for experts

Leading university threatened with loss of accreditation after complaints of animals being ‘automatically euthanised’ and students facing racism

Universities raise quality concerns as regulator sets end-of-year cut-off for transition to digital credits

Burgeoning compliance requirements ‘squeezing out’ other governance priorities, Australian conference hears

Office for Students summarises findings from first round of reviews looking at ‘areas of concern’ in teaching

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

Boosting access to higher education is important, but closures and mergers will create better institutions for students to attend, says Manigandan Ganesan 

Office for Students investigation finds computing courses are failing to meet learners’ needs, but university claims it is based on old data

Office for Students highlights issues with continuation and completion rates as well as graduate outcomes at range of institutions

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

International students not being offered a back door to prestigious institutions, review finds, but issues with progression and different conditions flagged

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

The updated code is the first issued in the UK by the QAA since 2018 and includes new emphasis on student voice

Kiwi institutions committed to ‘academic audit as a concept’ but look to save costs

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

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

The less rigorous oversight of foundation courses at private providers poses a risk to the UK’s reputation for quality, says Zahid Naz

Recruitment to vocational Bar course put on hold last year amid regulator’s concern over low pass rates

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

Economist questions whether private institutions’ focus on profitable social science subjects matches labour market demands

Universities Accord will not lead to rethink of universities’ research requirements, departing Teqsa boss predicts

New legislation opens the way for quality-focused branches to drive up standards across a traditionally public HE sector, says Ianis Matsoukas

Applications climbed by almost 2,000 per cent in 2022, the year of the Russian invasion, but most students chose low-cost courses with minimal entrance requirements