A new £18,000-a-year private university headed by the philosopher AC Grayling and offering lectures by Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson and Steven Pinker has not filled any of its courses ahead of its opening next week.
Britain's first private dental school will open next September. The school, which will take 100 students a year on a five-year course costing £180,000, is expected to be the forerunner of many more private institutions offering specialist degree courses.
A group of leading independent schools is studying plans to set up an elite private university modelled on American liberal arts colleges, which concentrates on high-quality teaching for undergraduates rather than research.
Post-1992 universities could begin to change their legal status and open up to private investment in the wake of the University of Central Lancashire's application to the government to become a private company.
FoI reveals moves and countermoves in struggle for state cash and influence. For-profit providers have pressed the government to give them greater access to publicly funded student loans and open up teaching grant in high-cost subjects.
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.
Glion Institute of Higher Education, one of the world’s top three institutions of higher education for an international career in hospitality management, announced today that it is opening its first branch campus in London. The new campus expands the reach of Glion’s Swiss hospitality education programmes to students and industry leaders in the U.K. Glion is a member of Laureate International Universities, a global network of more than 60 accredited campus-based and online institutions of higher education serving more than 740,000 students in 29 countries.
The bill on compulsory accreditation of all higher education institutions may not have passed political muster, but that isn't going to put brakes on the government's grand plans.
Wealthy donors to Ivy League universities can "buy a place" for their offspring, and admissions policies at elite U.S. universities are far less meritocratic than anything that would be accepted in Britain, the universities and science minister has argued.
The first batch of 60 undergraduates at the New College of the Humanities in Bloomsbury, London’s main university quarter, occupy a spacious Georgian house. Opening doors on the way up a grand staircase, your reporter eavesdropped on tutorials on ancient Greece, Romantic poets and economic theory. It feels like a dinky version of an august academic institution. Yet it is a for-profit organisation with a chief executive huddled over spreadsheets downstairs.
Regent's College is to take over the American InterContinental University London in what is thought to be the first UK acquisition of a for-profit by a not-for-profit higher education provider.
Portugal’s private University Fernando Pessoa, or UFP, is planning to set up a second branch in France – despite a complaint filed last year by French Higher Education Minister Geneviève Fioraso that installation of its first university centre in France was against the law.
A private college in London has been given the power to award its own degrees in a move the government says will increase competition in England's higher education system.
Regent's College in London will become only the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London.
Private universities and colleges will be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of students able to claim subsidised loans of up to £6,000 for another year, the Government has said.
Regent's College is to become the UK's largest private university, after the business department BIS confirmed that it met the criteria for university title.
London School of Marketing has recently released a whitepaper which reviews the private college sector as an alternative option to studying in publically funded universities. This whitepaper takes an in-depth look at the benefits, disadvantages and risks associated with private colleges in the UK.
University of Indianapolis announced on Wednesday that it was no longer accepting new students to Indianapolis Athens College for the summer summer and that all undergraduate courses and most graduate courses would stop on August 31
London Britain's Conservative Party is making reform of higher-education financing a centerpiece of its new platform, which promises $12-billion in spending cuts.
A new institution that aspires to be the largest and most ambitious private research university in continental Europe is being established in the German city of Bremen.
The leading lights of the for-profit higher education sector might be unfairly stereotyped as hard-nosed types. Meanwhile, people from Yorkshire have been unfairly stereotyped as keeping a particularly tight rein on their finances.
Regent's College in London will become the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London, writes Richard Adams for the Guardian.
A German-born Swiss businessman has pledged to give more than $250-million over the next five years to a private university in the northern city of Bremen, Germany. The donation is the largest...
For example, the not-for-profit Regent’s College has become Regent’s University and the College of Law has become the University of Law, the UK’s first for-profit university.
With most of the country still complaining about university fees being raised to £9,000 a year, it’s easy to forget that a small group of teenagers chose to pay double that by enrolling at A C Grayling’s elite start up, the New College of the Humanities (NCH), last October.
The 100-year-old Bocconi University, an Italian institution that teaches economics and business, is contemplating going public on the Milan stock exchange. Some of the Milan-based university's...
The government is set to decide whether to make BPP a university, creating the UK’s second for-profit institution with the title, just as its US parent company faces “adverse impact” from a sanction against one of its other institutions.
Senior academics in the UCU lecturers' union have said they fear expansion of for-profit universities could damage the reputation of higher education in the UK
La red de universidades privadas Laureate International Universities presentó ayer al Govern el proyecto de crear la Universidad Europea de Mallorca en los terrenos de la urbanización Maioris de Llucmajor. Una iniciativa con una inversión de 25 millones de euros y que impartirá estudios de carácter internacional. Laureate International Universities cuenta con más de 60 centros universitarios en el mundo y en Mallorca está asociada con la empresa inmobiliaria Maioris. El Govern acogió con los brazos abiertos la iniciativa. No es un proyectos nuevo, ya que a finales de los año 90 ya se presentó en sociedad con los mismos accionistas. El campus universitario se ubicará en la urbanización de Maioris, situada en la costa de Llucmajor, muy cerca de Palma.
El Gobierno valenciano ha acordado hoy dar la conformidad al anteproyecto de ley de reconocimiento de la Universidad Europea de Valencia como universidad privada, que impartirá un total de siete titulaciones oficiales, y se espera que esté en funcionamiento a partir del próximo curso.
La Conselleria de Educación todavía no ha recibido la documentación necesaria para aprobar o rechazar en parte los grados de la universidad privada. Fuentes de la Administración señalaron ayer que conocen el proyecto, pero oficialmente carecen de toda información.
El futuro del Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF) pasa por dar entrada a la iniciativa privada. Lo confirmó ayer el conseller de Sanidad, Luis Rosado, quien dio a conocer la decisión de abrir la puerta tanto a centros públicos como privados para que la financiación no proceda «exclusivamente de subvenciones de las organizaciones públicas». La Universidad Católica San Vicente Mártir podría ser una de las instituciones privadas que mayor protagosnimo tendrán en los convenios de colaboración con el CIPF.
Las universidades públicas aún otorgan más peso a la enseñanza presencial que a la virtual. Sin embargo, las privadas sí han sabido ver el modelo virtual, basado en Internet, el futuro de la educación en nuestro país.
El consejero de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Miguel Ángel Serna, ha asegurado que el Gobierno de Cantabria "no aporta nada" a la nueva universidad privada de la Fundación Universidad Iberoamericana (Funiber) y que su única función será llevar al Parlamento regional la ley para su creación.
La eficiencia analiza la cantidad de recursos empleados para la fabricación de un bien o la provisión de un servicio, la eficiencia competitiva compara la eficiencia entre dos empresas u organizaciones para la fabricación de un bien o la provisión de un servicio, equivalentes.
El alumnado en másteres oficiales ha aumentado en el curso 2010-2011 un 29,5 por ciento respecto al anterior, ya que se matricularon 180.433 alumnos más, según el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), que también apunta a que ocho de cada diez estudiantes de este ciclo eligió una universidad pública para cursarlo. Asimismo, el número de másteres alcanzó en ese año académico la cifra de 2.930, casi 670 más que en 2009-2010 y finalizaron estos programas en 2011 un total de 45.748 alumnos de los que el 56,6 por ciento eran mujeres.
Esquerra Unida rechazó ayer de plano la posibilidad de que se instale en El Campello una universidad privada, exigiendo al Ayuntamiento que haga todo lo posible por fomentar la educación pública. Después de conocer por INFORMACIÓN que el Consistorio mantiene negociaciones con una universidad privada para abrir un campus en la localidad, el resto de la oposición prefirió ayer no valorar este proyecto, del que poco se sabe, hasta tener más datos. Así, Iniciativa reclamó más información, Decido manifestó su sorpresa por la noticia y espera tener más datos para hacer declaraciones, al igual que PSOE y Bloc.
La tendencia al crecimiento de las universidades privadas en España en los últimos años se ha roto. Por primera vez, según datos publicados hoy por el Ministerio de Educación, el número de estudiantes de grado (incluidos primer y segundo ciclo) en estos centros descendió un 2% en el curso 2011-2012, hasta situarse en 172.442. Por el contrario, la cifra aumentó un 2,2% en las públicas, hasta llegar a 1.297.211. Especialmente significativo ha sido el incremento del 14,7% en la UNED, que registró 179.781 alumnos. En total, en la primera etapa universitaria hubo 1.469.653 matriculaciones, lo que supone un incremento global del 1,7%.
La presidenta de la Conferencia de Rectores de Universidades Españolas (CRUE), Adelaida de la Calle, cree que es mejor potenciar la Universidad de Cantabria (UC) que crear una universidad privada, en alusión a la Universidad Internacional de Santander, proyecto de la Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana que anunció en mayo el presidente de Cantabria, Ignacio Diego.