Right now if a for-profit college is going under there's no incentive at all to try and minimize the impact to students. If you know that a degree program is getting the axe in 6 months it's pretty scummy to still be accepting freshmen into it. From a business standpoint not doing that means passing up hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition while still incurring the same costs in terms of facilities and faculty.
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/foundation-dept/foundation-path...
The fees they are charging tend to suggest that the University is not claiming skills funding agency money for this foundation course. In the UK further education colleges work at a level below universities and what we call 'level 3' qualifications (e.g. A levels, BTEC National Diploma &c) are needed to enter most university courses. Universities can offer their own foundation courses - a foundation year is common in the fine art field.