There are strong indications that demand for higher education is outstripping supply. In January, Gloria Sekwena died and at least 20 other people were seriously injured when about 5,000 people stampeded in a desperate attempt to register at the last minute with the University of Johannesburg. The university received more than 85,000 applications for fewer than 12,000 places last year.
Exploding demand for higher education during the last decade, especially in developing countries, has been accompanied by extraordinary growth in private provision and rising tensions over the entry of foreign institutions into local markets.
With college enrollments mushrooming in many nations but public support generally unable to keep up, the world is seeing a historic swing from public to private financing of higher education, the report says.
Greek riot police officers fired tear gas into a crowd of several thousand protesters in Athens this month, injuring about 15 people. While the protesters were primarily university students who oppose government proposals to restructure higher education in Greece, news reports suggested that the targets of the crackdown were "anarchists" who had infiltrated the demonstration to use it as a cover for vandalism.
However, the amount of legal threats, lawsuits, hacking attempts, domain hijacking attempts, and so forth on the part of for-profit institutions around the world (especially from the US and Canada) is something that we deal with every single day.
One more sign that colleges and companies see the financial possibilities of the international-student market: A British company that helps to bring students from China and other countries to campuses in the United States and other English-speaking nations has announced an investment of more than $100-million from a private-equity firm.
The International Finance Corporation on Wednesday announced a $150 million equity investment in Laureate Education, Inc., a Baltimore-based, privately held, for-profit education company that operates 65 career-oriented colleges in 29 countries.
Who was it who first admitted that they liked to go to bed at night with a Trollope? Well, like John Major before me, I'm not ashamed; I, too, often take a Trollope to bed with me. Like Walter Scott's, Anthony Trollope's novels read themselves, and make entertaining if sometimes caustic reading before sleep (truthfully, rereading in my case, as I invariably return to my favourites).
In an unusual partnership, Thunderbird School of Global Management today announced it is forming a partnership with a for-profit educational provider, Laureate Education, to offer educational programs around the world.
The majority of institutions on the global version of the list are private universities in the U.S., including Ivy League colleges such as Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and Brown.
The company, which owns the University of Phoenix, and the Carlyle Group plan to invest up to $1-billion in education institutions and services abroad.
In nation after nation, the public monopoly on higher education is over As the world's hunger for higher education has outstripped the ability of many governments to pay for it, a type of
Transatlantic talks are going on between Princeton University and the University of Oxford about increasing their cooperation in the sciences. Oxford officials said the discussions between the two...
More than one in three students enrolled in higher education worldwide attends a private institution, and private universities are rapidly expanding their reach.
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.
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.
Lest anyone doubt that Asia holds promise for American higher-education companies, the chief executive of Laureate Education, who just engineered a $3.8-billion private-equity buyout of the company...
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.
The privatisation of higher education has been advocated by governments as well as regional and international organisations as a way to fill the supply-demand gap left by the public sector, transfer the finance burden to higher education consumers – for example, students and industry – and increase the efficiency and relevance of higher education and the private returns to consumers.