Up to 10 UK universities ‘could go bust’ due to risky private teaching deals

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Up to 10 UK universities ‘could go bust’ due to risky private teaching deals

As many as ten British universities are in danger of going bust because of their reliance on risky franchising deals that see courses run and taught by private sector providers, The i Paper has been told.The practice began as a way of extending higher education to hard to reach disadvantaged communities in areas without universities. But lending university brand names to external companies can also be very lucrative, earning cash strapped univer…