As the founder of KIIT University, a top private institution here, Achuyta Samanta has built an institution that occupies dozens of buildings across 350 acres of plush land. Yet he has no office.
India’s university regulator is likely to make it harder to establish private universities in the country as part of an effort to crack down on such institutions, C2live, a news Web site, reports. Many private higher-education providers have been caught offering courses without the regulator’s approval.
The recession has sent tuition-discount rates at private colleges soaring to record highs, reaching 41.8 percent in 2008. But some small colleges have managed to buck that trend, lowering their discount rates while raising enrollment.
But today they are facing two imminent threats to their near-monopoly of higher education. The first is the expansion of educational providers that exist solely on private support. The second comes from the small but growing efforts of for-profit universities, heavily influenced by commercial education ventures in the United States.
On leave from the government department of Georgetown University, Joshua Mitchell, acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, talks about the challenges of starting a private university in a country damaged by years of war. He also shares the special pitch he gives prospective faculty members.
It seems too good to be true, at least for companies. Customers arrive at for-profit colleges by the million. With them comes billions of dollars of federal student grants and loans, to be poured into corporate coffers. Public subsidies may provide up to 90% of revenue; the government bears the risk of loan defaults. This business model has served firms rather well. Its effect on students and taxpayers is less clear. This summer, however, a brawl over for-profit colleges has exploded at last.
Fly-by-night colleges operating in the Western Cape could soon be closed down, with police raids on illegal colleges expected to be continued across the country.
S. Tramp, N. Heino, S. Auer, and P. Frischmuth. Proceedings of the EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses; 11th October-15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal, volume 6317 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), page 90--104. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (October 2010)
S. Tramp, N. Heino, S. Auer, and P. Frischmuth. Proceedings of 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), volume 6089 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 436---440. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
S. Tramp, P. Frischmuth, T. Ermilov, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses; 11th October-15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal, volume 6317 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), page 135--149. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (October 2010)
C. Stadler, M. Martin, J. Lehmann, and S. Hellmann. 6th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web Colocated with ESWC 2010 30th or 31st May, 2010 Crete, Greece, (2010)
T. Riechert, U. Morgenstern, S. Auer, S. Tramp, and M. Martin. Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), volume 6497 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 225-240. Shanghai / China, Springer, (2010)
C. Rieß, N. Heino, S. Tramp, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
M. Martin, J. Unbehauen, and S. Auer. Proceedings of 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), 30 May -- 3 June 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, volume 6089 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 304-318. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
M. Martin, and T. Riechert. Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis -- Konzeption, technische Umsetzung und Anwendungen für Professorenkataloge im Semantic Web, volume 21 of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, chapter Werkzeuge zur Realisierung der Datenbank, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2010)
M. Martin, and S. Auer. proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO2010) 25 October -- 30 October, Florence, Italy, (October 2010)
P. Frischmuth, T. Riechert, and S. Tramp. Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis -- Konzeption, technische Umsetzung und Anwendungen für Professorenkataloge im Semantic Web, volume XXI of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2010)
S. Auer, M. Weidl, J. Lehmann, A. Zaveri, and K. Choi. Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
N. Arndt. Proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2010: Service Science -- Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik, volume P-176 of GI-Edition---Lecture Notes in Informatics, page 1004-1005. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., (September 2010)\copyright 2010 Gesellschaft für Informatik.
S. Tramp, P. Frischmuth, T. Ermilov, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses; 11th October-15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal, volume 6317 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), page 135--149. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (October 2010)
S. Tramp, N. Heino, S. Auer, and P. Frischmuth. Proceedings of the EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses; 11th October-15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal, volume 6317 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), page 90--104. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (October 2010)
S. Tramp, N. Heino, S. Auer, and P. Frischmuth. Proceedings of 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), volume 6089 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 436---440. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
T. Riechert, U. Morgenstern, S. Auer, S. Tramp, and M. Martin. Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), volume 6497 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 225--240. Shanghai / China, Springer, (2010)
C. Rieß, N. Heino, S. Tramp, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
M. Martin, J. Unbehauen, and S. Auer. Proceedings of 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), 30 May -- 3 June 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, volume 6089 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 304--318. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
M. Martin, and T. Riechert. Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis -- Konzeption, technische Umsetzung und Anwendungen für Professorenkataloge im Semantic Web, volume 21 of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, chapter Werkzeuge zur Realisierung der Datenbank, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2010)
M. Martin, and S. Auer. proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO2010) 25 October -- 30 October, Florence, Italy, (October 2010)
P. Frischmuth, T. Riechert, and S. Tramp. Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis -- Konzeption, technische Umsetzung und Anwendungen für Professorenkataloge im Semantic Web, volume XXI of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2010)
S. Auer, M. Weidl, J. Lehmann, A. Zaveri, and K. Choi. Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010), Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, (2010)
N. Arndt. Proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2010: Service Science -- Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik, volume P-176 of GI-Edition---Lecture Notes in Informatics, page 1004--1005. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., (September 2010)\copyright 2010 Gesellschaft für Informatik.