Compensation continues for 15 years to owners of converting for-profit providers for reasonable financial losses.

It can be best described as a chaotic attempt to introduce a market into higher education, with for-profit private providers, institutional closures and disastrous implications for access.

Some criticized the awarding of this contract to a private, for-profit provider, and argued that services would be jeopardized.

Other complaints come from the political left, who object to 'privatization' (by which they usually mean a heavier involvement of for-profit providers).

It is a private, for-profit provider of career training for adult learners.

The idea of economic regulation worries me and I believe that a distinction between not-for-profit and for-profit providers will have to be made.

The Career Education Corporation, a for-profit provider of technical and business education at 80 campuses around the world, is in the closed-mouth camp.

Will for-profit providers do higher education any good?

"Pitting school against school, easing the way for for-profit providers into a key public service, alienating teachers and undermining across-the-board education progress."

It is the wider value of public higher education and the nature of universities as institutions that are threatened by the introduction of for-profit providers.