Why Obvious Solutions Fail
Chapter 12
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Evidence used
Material used to support factual claims and explanations in this chapter.
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Office for Students, 14 May 2026; corrected edition published 15 June 2026
Used for current English-sector data on student recruitment, tuition-fee income, forecasts, borrowing, capital expenditure and maintenance backlogs. The report's aggregate data do not describe every provider.
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Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration, updated 1 June 2026
Used for the regulated process through which a provider sponsors international students and assigns Confirmations of Acceptance for Studies. This guidance is time-sensitive.
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UK Research and Innovation
Used for the usual 80 per cent funding of full economic cost and the research organisation's responsibility for the remaining cost.
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UK Research and Innovation
Used for background on direct, estates and indirect research costs.
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Office for Students
Used for the formal management and governance requirements applying to registered providers in England.
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Office for Students, 16 May 2024
Used for context on liquidity, contingency planning, financial forecasting and governing-body scrutiny.
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National Audit Office, February 1998
Used only as historical evidence that appraisal and control of university estate projects are longstanding governance concerns.
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Selected contextual material that extends or complements the chapter.
Further reading
Gary Klein, Harvard Business Review, September 2007
Background to the prospective hindsight question used in the composite near miss.
Further reading
UK Research and Innovation
Plain-language context on full economic costing and why grant income does not map neatly onto the real cost of research.
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