Another private-equity investor is taking a high-profile stake in the higher-education industry. Sterling Capital Partners announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the for-profit Florida Coastal...
Angry nurses have attacked the Federal Government after a private university was yesterday promised a cash handout only months after Sydney University's nursing faculty was told it would be axed.
The fast-growing movement to unionize graduate students at the nation's private universities suffered a crushing setback yesterday when the National Labor Relations Board reversed itself and ruled that students who worked as research and teaching assistants did not have the right to unionize.
South Korea's ministry of education has ordered three private institutions to turn over $15.3-million and dismiss 68 professors and officials due to bribery, and mishandling of funds. The ministry has withheld approval for one board of trustees and replaced another's.
A class-action lawsuit filed against ITT Educational Services last month accuses the company of issuing "materially false and misleading" quarterly reports that defrauded investors.
In legislation that Republican Congressional leaders introduced in May to extend the law that governs most federal-student aid programs, for-profit colleges came out on top.
Apollo Group, the company that built the University of Phoenix into the largest university in the United States by catering to working adults, is now moving to serve younger college students.
In the two months since federal agents brandishing search warrants and grand-jury subpoenas swarmed ITT Educational Services' Indianapolis headquarters and 10 of its campuses, anxieties have been running high in for-profit higher education.
The owner of a private Japanese university was arrested this month and charged with making off with millions of dollars in government subsidies while his institution ran up such huge debts that...
A private university in Belarus is suspending its operations after being given two weeks to vacate its main building by the government, which in July mounted a crippling assault on the defiant 11-year-old institution.
Gov. Gary Locke has vetoed a controversial proposal that would have allowed private colleges in Washington State to receive state aid for students enrolling in high-demand programs.
Private colleges in Washington State would be allowed, for the first time, to receive state aid for students enrolling in high-demand programs, under a controversial budget provision that state...
Harvard University plans to create a center to study human embryonic stem cells, raising millions of dollars privately to avoid strict federal regulations on such research. Details of the proposed...
A delegation of private sector universities in the NWFP has asked the governor to help extend the deadline set by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad, to meet the minimum criteria for granting charter, say officials.
The owner of a private Japanese university was arrested this month and charged with making off with millions of dollars in government subsidies while his institution ran up such huge debts that it was reportedly close to shutting down.