The Government must take urgent action to mitigate the increasing possibility of a "disorderly exit" by one or more universities from the higher education sector, a report has suggested.The absence of a plan for handling a sudden closure of a university which is no longer financially viable is causing an "unsustainable level of uncertainty" for students, according to the consultancy Public First and University of Warwick paper.

The Government must take urgent action to mitigate the increasing possibility of a "disorderly exit" by one or more universities from the higher education sector, a report has suggested.The absence of a plan for handling a sudden closure of a university which is no longer financially viable is causing an "unsustainable level of uncertainty" for students, according to the consultancy Public First and University of Warwick paper.