The government has defended the public financing of for-profit higher education providers and has said that it wants widening participation funding to be “better targeted”. The comments came in the government’s much-delayed response to a report on the coalition’s higher education reforms published in November 2011 by the Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee. In [...]
ICEF led a presentation at the Languages Canada conference, held recently in Vancouver, providing the audience with an insightful overview of current research and best practices for working with education agents. The session provided a country-specific overview of why students use agents, what students in each country look for when choosing where to study overseas, [...]
Private providers are to compete directly with universities for undergraduate places for the first time after the government announced that it aimed to bring them under the same controls on the number of students accessing public loans, and the same quality assurance regime, as the rest of the sector. In its long-awaited response to the [...]
A British education lawyer has called for an independent body to be set up to support international students facing unethical treatment by private education providers in the UK. The sector’s biggest accreditation body, the British Accreditation Council (BAC), has backed the idea. It follows a Huffington Post article published this week, in which international students claim [...]
Up to 10 smaller higher education institutions in England are now eligible to become universities under government changes announced on Monday. The number of students required for a university has been reduced from 4,000 to 1,000. But the government has been criticised for not introducing primary legislation in its reforms of the higher education sector. [...]
British universities could lose out on millions of pounds annually in fees from foreign students if immigration policies are not changed, senior education figures have warned the prime minister. Government crackdowns on immigration could lead to overseas students going elsewhere for their higher education, according to a group of 68 chancellors, governors and university presidents. [...]
In the midst of crisis, Greece needs its universities now more than ever - but Greek universities cannot serve their country. With a new university law in limbo, they are decaying, increasingly paralysed, barely operating. Ideally, they should be spearheading an effective response to the debt crisis, primarily by educating qualified, self-confident and productive young [...]
The government is set to push ahead with plans to create a new generation of universities by lowering the qualifying threshold for university title from 4,000 to 1,000 students. Times Higher Education understands that easing the path to university title for small institutions is expected to be a central feature in the government's responses to [...]
Dear colleague, You’ll be aware that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has commissioned CFE and the British Accreditation Council to provide a comprehensive picture of provision by privately funded institutions operating in the UK higher education (HE) sector. You should have received an email from CFE regarding the research. BIS is requesting that all privately funded [...]
Overseas business studies undergraduate Mani Shariki, 23, switched from Oxford Brookes University to a private provider, Magna Carta College, Oxford, a year ago as he did not feel his studies were on track. "Magna Carta is a much smaller college, the staff are friendly, they take notice and students enjoy a high standard of professionalism [...]