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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

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 ¨C but this is not necessarily a top priority in post-conflict regions, says Mich¨¨le 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

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