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UK and EU competition update: CMA higher education and green guidance; 37 merger remedies revoked; Aston Barclay provisional clearance; CAT certifies Valve CPO; planning and veterinary consultations; Google DMA proceedings

Published on: 29 January 2026

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UK antitrust

CMA publishes guidance on competition law and collaboration between higher education providers

The CMA has issued new online guidance on how higher education institutions can work together, setting out how competition law applies to co-operation across the sector. It recognised that collaboration is increasingly prevalent, and stressed that neither structured nor informal joint working automatically triggers competition law issues. The document mirrors the CMA’s growing attention to education in recent years—more generally, covering, for example, its probes into Education Software Solutions—and notes, in particular, a 2025 CMA blog saying that enforcement will not be a priority where collaborations are clearly scoped, proportionate, and aimed at delivering benefits. The authority also restated that higher education providers, whether public or not-for-profit, are undertakings for competition law purposes. The guidance highlights types of co-operation unlikely to cause competition concerns, including measures to enable student mobility, collective engagement with policymakers, joint procurement, and the shared use of services and infrastructure...

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