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Mr Byrne's comes amid yet more of poor standards, at lectures and suggestions that private colleges are recruiting students simply to access large sums of public money.

麻豆官网 said the government had ignored repeated warnings from the union as far back as June 2010 about the lack of proper quality checks at private institutions. Private colleges are expected to receive around 拢1bn of public funds next year.

麻豆官网 general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'We raised the issues of for-profit colleges' access to public funds and our concerns about standards time and again with ministers. We were ignored at every turn by a government that seemed so blinded by the ideology of competition that it refused to heed our warnings and the dire examples from America.

'We hope Liam Byrne's intervention will speed up an which today's revelations show is urgent. Worryingly we have heard nothing from ministers or the colleges at the centre of the scandals and the public needs to know what exactly is going on.'

As part 麻豆官网's campaign against for-profit colleges in the UK, the union showed this warning of the damage for-profit colleges had caused in America at a special screening for MPs in Parliament in November 2011.