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Private universities complain of insecurity

By Anna Fazackerley

, The Guardian, Monday 1 October 2012 19.30 BST

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/01/private-higher-education-reforms

This article is about why private higher education providers are complaining, although they are doing well, and what their detractors think.

Some in the public sector resent the freedoms given to private providers and these, in turn, acknowledge the fact that they feel they have benefitted from the policies of the new coalition government and are doing good business, but they fear insecurity and claim that if the current system doesn’t change they might be affected.
Although public universities have now to restrict to a certain number of applications, private institutions can recruit as many  students as they want and these students are now entitled to get public loans. Notwithstanding this, Alain Jenkins of the the Edge Hotel School, who acknowledges that there is less hostility towards private institutions, says that some new policies are still not friendly enough.
While the number of applications in the whole sector has declined and the participation of for-profit institutions across the sector is still small, they have dramatically increased the number of recruits. Regardless this, Prof Terence Kealey, of Buckingham, states that many of  his colleagues feel the system is unfair, and Paul Marshall, of Business Schools, points out that private providers fear that expansion is risky because a new Labour government might affect investors. One important doubt concerns the limitation to the number of  loans available to private schools students. 
Some people from the private sector are annoyed because, although their institutions succeded an accreditation  proccess to have degree-awarding powers, they have to reapply every six years.
On the other hand Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, accuses  private providers of being shameless because they are said to be committing several frauds.