Private colleges suspended from student loan access

By John Morgan. The government has suspended 23 private colleges from the publicly-funded loans system after a surge in their student numbers. 
David Willetts, the universities and science minister, said last week that the Department for Business Innovation and Skills had written to the 23 colleges telling them not to recruit any more students on Higher National Certificates (HNCs) or Higher National Diplomas (HNDs). More...