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As online delivery complicates quality assurance based on states and regions, Biden regulatory effort delves into difficulties of trade-offs

Australian institutions say new research rules are not to blame as registration delays stretch on

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

OIA caseload continues to rise despite end of pandemic restrictions and fallout from marking boycott yet to hit

OfS publishes latest minister-ordered business and management course investigations, finding ‘concerns’ at Bucks New and Wolverhampton

Government bars recognition of degrees from Benin and Togo, and suggests it could extend this to Uganda, Kenya and Niger

In change welcomed by sector leaders, institutions can become fully accredited with only one PhD programme from 2025

Singling out particular disciplines makes no sense, but we need cross-subject standards that are recognisable to employers, says Ian Pace

Quality and resourcing also front of mind for academic heading first comprehensive education evaluation in decades

English regulator publishes latest report in series of government-initiated investigations

Susan Lapworth tells business school deans that regulator has learned lessons from first investigations into quality of their provision

Late researcher’s reform narrative chimes with Australian accord considerations

Regulator says subcontracting of courses becoming bigger and bigger part of the sector but there are ‘potential pockets of concern’

Regulatory agency warns students over 20 non-accredited institutions, amid soaring demand for higher education

Animated by both left and right, operations’ right to label themselves ‘university’ or ‘college’ amplify a regulatory danger for US higher education

Administration demands open process that allows anonymity, upsetting agencies seeking clearer rules in an era of partisan attacks

The internationalisation process should centre on quality assurance – but this is not necessarily a top priority in post-conflict regions, says Michèle Wera

In reviving controversial gainful employment rule, administration also worries traditional institutions by requiring they publicly report their own graduate salary data

After accreditor allows tests of shorter bachelor’s degree programmes, officials say they see no federal mandate on time or credit hours

Body calls for regular check-ins with all providers to ensure English system meets international norms

A decade of English university policy has sought to improve standards by increasing competition. However, new institutions remain small and peripheral. Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap and bureaucratic excess will always limit the scope for innovation, in England and elsewhere

English regulator expresses concern about staffing levels and academic misconduct protections on business and management courses

California prosecution of nurse with doctoral degree held out as sign of academia’s wider failure to treat profession seriously

As their behind-the-scenes work draws partisan attention, agencies that assess institutional quality differ on tactics and fear Biden doesn’t see urgency in unity

Working together to tackle specific teaching and research needs could seed high-quality research institutes, say Diya Dutt and Sudarshan Saha

Government alarms sector by pressing regulator for quality metric on earnings, which could potentially determine student number caps

English regulator rejects most criticism of proposals, but acknowledges that it should consider an institution’s ability to pay before it finalises costs

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

English regulator ‘making it up as it goes along’, critics say

New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission head stresses need to regulate higher and vocational education together during UK visit

Universities’ lack of compliance with European standards raises suspicions in foreign governments that hamper expansion plans, warns agency’s chief executive

Rise in complaints to new record levels driven by medical students and those from beyond EU

England’s higher education regulator takes on quality scrutiny role after Quality Assurance Agency steps back

Agencies created to help institutions improve themselves, then asked to guard federal student aid, now face fight over battling partisan attacks on academia

Tough new demands requiring institutions to produce world-class research could put some universities’ titles under threat. But is that a good thing?

Hopes that a new regulator would bring light-touch, proportionate regulation in England have been dashed, says Iain Mansfield

Australian regulator advises against shortcuts, such as recruiting moonlighting big hitters, as universities confront new research quality benchmarks

Agency rebuts Office for Students report which ‘substantially misrepresents’ role in assessing higher education providers, as major rift exposed

Vice-chancellors hope for overseas expansion after Unesco agreement on recognising qualifications ratified

Concerns over regulator’s independence and sweeping new powers necessitates parliamentary investigation, letter to Robin Walker states

Provider with low graduation rates due to admissions policies struggling to meet Office for Students benchmark

Dame Julie Lydon joined at Commission for Tertiary Education and Research by former Research England chief David Sweeney

More than half of those polled by Hepi and NUS express support for education designed with employment in mind

Zayed University provost Michael Allen says lack of course flexibility regarding microcredentials is hurting graduates’ chances in the labour market

Two-thirds of larger providers failing to meet every student outcomes benchmark in every subject, THE analysis finds

Australian public service chief rails against scale in call for “alternatives” to huge comprehensive institutions

English regulator focuses on law, business and computing courses not meeting thresholds for continuation, completion and progression

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

New subject guidance mandates ‘narrowly skewed perspective on the history of mathematics’, leading academics claim

While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees

United Nations report examines how academic credits can be validated more easily

Members hope closer cooperation will help disrupt innovative multinational fraudsters that target and blackmail vulnerable students

But report concludes that balance of face-to-face and online learning is ‘not the key’ factor in teaching quality

Even as institutions offering mediocre engineering qualifications go out of business, private providers are expanding into the digital space

After body’s decision to relinquish quality role, sector fears lack of options for replacement risks undermining autonomy

Bringing students into departmental conversations on standards safeguarding can reinvigorate a process that has served UK universities well for almost 200 years, says Clare Peddie

Universities urged to adhere to set of 12 principles as key quality mechanism comes under increased strain because of large workloads