Regent's College in London will become only the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London.
Private universities and colleges will be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of students able to claim subsidised loans of up to £6,000 for another year, the Government has said.
Regent's College is to become the UK's largest private university, after the business department BIS confirmed that it met the criteria for university title.
London School of Marketing has recently released a whitepaper which reviews the private college sector as an alternative option to studying in publically funded universities. This whitepaper takes an in-depth look at the benefits, disadvantages and risks associated with private colleges in the UK.
London Britain's Conservative Party is making reform of higher-education financing a centerpiece of its new platform, which promises $12-billion in spending cuts.
The leading lights of the for-profit higher education sector might be unfairly stereotyped as hard-nosed types. Meanwhile, people from Yorkshire have been unfairly stereotyped as keeping a particularly tight rein on their finances.
Regent's College in London will become the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London, writes Richard Adams for the Guardian.
For example, the not-for-profit Regent’s College has become Regent’s University and the College of Law has become the University of Law, the UK’s first for-profit university.
With most of the country still complaining about university fees being raised to £9,000 a year, it’s easy to forget that a small group of teenagers chose to pay double that by enrolling at A C Grayling’s elite start up, the New College of the Humanities (NCH), last October.
The government is set to decide whether to make BPP a university, creating the UK’s second for-profit institution with the title, just as its US parent company faces “adverse impact” from a sanction against one of its other institutions.
Senior academics in the UCU lecturers' union have said they fear expansion of for-profit universities could damage the reputation of higher education in the UK
A new Government analysis reveals that 160,000 students were enrolled at some 674 privately-funded institutions last year, far higher than previous estimates.
David Willetts should be lauded for his support for the expansion of private higher education in Britain, which is providing students with greater choice and flexibility in how and where they study. At the same time, rigorous new standards mean that, regardless of where they study, the common denominator will always be, as he says, “top quality higher education”.
In a bold and commendable move, the government last week granted university status to BPP University, making it the second for-profit private higher education institution in the UK.
The news that BPP has become the latest provider of legal education to slap a ‘university’ sticker on its for-profit business has not yet caused as much of a stir as when the College of Law adopted its University of Law moniker in November last year.
British education authorities have granted full university status to an institution owned by the Apollo Group, the corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, BBC News reports. With the move, BPP University College of Professional Studies, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business and law, now becomes BPP University.
Student numbers at private higher education institutions will be capped from 2014-15, the government has confirmed, while private providers will also be granted unlimited recruitment of high-grade students.