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Disruption and distress in U.K. Higher Education

Lenny Brown, Peter Brown, Simon Appell, Jessica Clayton and Ben Browne of AlixPartners warn that U.K. universities are entering a period of acute financial stress as tuition income falls behind inflation, enrolment stagnates, and debt mounts, and share that, with no clear insolvency framework or policy roadmap to manage potential institutional failures, there is a limited toolkit available to manage providers facing financial distress.