Universities invite private college to step into their ‘back office’
The UK’s only for-profit university college is in talks about running the “back-office” functions of publicly funded universities.
BPP University College, which offers its own degrees in business, law and finance, has been approached by “several” institutions about the possibility of running services such as IT support, estate management and procurement.A spokeswoman for the private provider, whose parent company is the US for-profit giant Apollo Group, said discussions with three of the universities about the move were “serious”, although the development was still at the early stages …