The Commons Public Accounts Committee published its 7th Report of Session 2012-13, 'Immigration: Points Based System-Student Route,' as HC 101 on Tuesday 4 September. The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, today said: "It is extraordinary that the UK Border Agency introduced its new points based system for students [...]
There have been several news reports regarding the revocation of London Metropolitan University's Tier 4 sponsor license. This is the first time a university in the UK has had its license revoked, and around 2,700 students are affected by the move. The Guardian reports that a taskforce has been set up to help affected students, [...]
Looking to launch a career in fashion? Take note: one of Europe's leading fashion and design schools is offering three fully funded scholarships to study a three-year BA (Hons) degree at its London campus. If the British fashion scene is about breaking the rules, the Italian industry is about making them. Italian design is chic [...]
Students could be exempted from immigration rules to help hit a pledge to cut drastically the number of non-Europeans settling in Britain under plans being considered by Downing Street. Prime Minister David Cameron is understood to be concerned that visa restrictions are stopping wealthy foreigners from studying in British universities. Removing students from the rules [...]
Dear Colleagues, Save the date: launch event The past year has seen wide-ranging changes in the private education sector, and BAC has been much focused on ensuring that its accreditation, along with the services it offers to colleges, remains of utmost relevance and benefit. The final touches are being put to a package of services, [...]
A private university college is set to offer degrees to the health sector - the first such courses from a for-profit provider in the UK. BPP University College is launching its School of Health, starting this autumn with courses in psychology and nursing. A three-year psychology degree will cost £15,000, at a time when many [...]
With immigration and university standards hot issues, any impropriety involving recruiters abroad could tar the sector As fishing trips go, sending an undercover reporter to trawl international student recruitment agencies until someone said something dodgy was probably the equivalent of pointing a shotgun into a small barrel. That is not to deny that The Daily [...]
UK universities are shifting attention from their traditional role of educating home students towards private and international provision, according to a survey of vice-chancellors and administrative heads. The Quiet Revolution: How Strategic Partnerships and Alliances are Reshaping the Higher Education System, a report by PA Consulting Group, has found that 42 per cent of institutions [...]
Private growth in the sector is a tender subject, but the reality is more complex than ideologues on both sides would have it It was recently suggested that Times Higher Education has a "bee in its bonnet" about private providers. As appealing as the idea of THE having a bonnet may be, the automatic reaction [...]
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 [...]