Russian higher-education regulators have begun a campaign to revoke the operating licenses of the many private and small state colleges that popped up in the 1990s, using fire and safety violations...
Russian higher-education regulators expect to revoke the operating licenses of about 100 private and small state colleges that do not meet quality and safety standards.
A private-equity firm that focuses on investments in education companies has acquired Schiller International University, a family-owned college of about 1,200 students that is based in Florida and has campuses in six countries.
For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. The for-profit educational sector is composed of a diverse set of colleges, but most of the literature neatly ignores this.
Touro College completed the sale of its separately accredited online division last week, for the previously undisclosed price of $190-million. The sum is about five times the value of...
Laureate Education Inc., which operates a network of 24 universities overseas and the all-online Walden University, has agreed to be acquired for $3.8-billion by a group of private investors led...
The Greek Parliament passed a controversial education bill this month that sparked rioting in the streets of Athens. Police said it was the worst unrest the city had seen for years. At least 20 people were injured, 47 were detained, and 11 were arrested, the Associated Press reported.
Patrick Awuah, Ashesi University's president, celebrated the fifth anniversary of Ghana's first liberal arts college this week in Seattle. After an eight-year career at Microsoft, Awuah, a native Ghanaian, founded Ashesi in 2002 with this vision: "Imagine if every Sub-Saharan African country had several small liberal-arts colleges, educating students at a level equivalent to liberal-arts colleges in the United States -- colleges dedicated to nurturing critical thinking, effective communication skills, practical experience, and a true concern for society in their students."
Thanks to a hastily adopted stopgap measure signed into law this month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, some 400,000 students attending proprietary colleges in California will again be afforded some level of promise that the degrees and credits they earn will be recognized outside the state.
Career Education Corporation, one of the country's largest operators of for-profit colleges, has announced that the U.S. Department of Justice concluded its three-year criminal investigation of the company and decided that no charges will be brought against it.
The disproportionate wealth of a handful of elite private universities "offers a striking manifestation of the contemporary American tendency of the rich to get much richer," says a correspondent...
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities has rolled out a sample template that will allow participating colleges to make available data on a number of measures, including academic programs, graduation rates, and financial-aid awards, in a more comparable, user-friendly format.
On considerations like how clear the path to tenure is, or how plainly an institution communicates its expectations of professors, junior faculty members at public colleges rate their institutions...
The nonprofit Touro College announced this morning that it had signed a deal to sell its 7,500-student online division to a private-equity fund — in a transaction that signals investors’ continuing confidence in distance education as a way to make money in higher education.
The group of Laureate Education Inc. managers and outside investors who are seeking to buy out the company and take it private have upped their $3.8-billion offer by $1.50 per share.
THE HIGHER Education Department will initiate strict action against the private colleges that do not adhere to the rules. Also the recognition of such colleges could be cancelled, the Principal Secretary of the department Dr Bhagirath Prasad has warned.