Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung has urged private higher education institutions (IPTS) to update their IPT Formation Management System (IFMS) data online.
At some of the private colleges and universities in North Carolina, up to 80 percent of students represent the first generation in their family to go to college.
George Mason University’s Board of Visitors has authorized the university to move forward in establishing a campus in Songdo, South Korea. This will be the Virginia university’s second attempt to establish an overseas branch: its first, in the United Arab Emirates, ended in failure. The university devoted three years to developing a degree-granting campus in the Ras-Al-Khaimah province only to withdraw in 2009 due to slow enrollment growth, funding difficulties, and disagreements with the U.A.E. government body that was financing the campus.
With the NYU brand recently expanding its satellite locations all over the world, including Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, numerous European countries, and Shanghai, Tisch Asia remained the only school that was not a part of Sexton’s so-called “global university”, and coincidentally, the only overseas NYU institution not created by the president himself.
Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N) is in exclusive talks to buy the educational publishing unit of McGraw-Hill Companies Inc (MHP.N), prevailing over rival bidders Cengage Learning Inc and buyout firm Bain Capital LLC, a person familiar with the matter said.
The re-election of President Obama isn't likely to result in a slew of new regulations aimed at for-profit colleges. But with student debt and the cost of college expected to remain high-profile issues in his second administration, industry observers foresee little let-up in the focus on the for-profit sector.
It’s somewhat fitting that the Council of Independent Colleges’ annual institute for chief academic officers is here in the city that saw the highest population growth between 2000 and 2010, and the second-highest growth between 1990 and 2000, with much of that growth coming from Hispanics.
Indian universities in the private sector need to look for diverse sources of funding rather than depending solely on tuition fees if they want to improve education quality, a higher education panel has concluded.
Specially on the role of private sector in higher education, ASHE 2012 report says that the private participation in the education sector should of quality and of great intent. Taking cue from the success of private involvement in education in the 11th Plan, the report says that private sector should be encouraged to establish larger and higher quality institutions in the 12th Plan
A report on status of higher education prepared by Planning Commission and industry body CII has favoured greater participation of private sector in higher education with the establishment of larger and higher quality institutions during the 12th Plan Period.
Tisch Asia, a graduate film and creative arts school in Singapore that is a branch of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, this month announced that it would close, possibly in 2014.
Japanese education experts say they are unable to support the controversial rejection of applications for three new universities by new Minister of Education Makiko Tanaka, who said too many universities would erode higher education standards.
Lovely Professional U., in northern India, boasts of its modern infrastructure, especially compared with the bare-bones campuses of many public universities. LPU's campus features Wi-Fi, a shopping mall, and restaurants.
McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) agreed to sell its education unit to Apollo Global Management LLC (APO) for $2.5 billion as Chief Executive Officer Harold “Terry” McGraw III remakes his family’s 124-year-old company around financial services.
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.
Most of the growth in private institution enrollment between 2000 and 2010 occurred among for-profit institutions—their enrollment increased more than 300 percent, from 0.4 to 1.7 million students. Enrollment at private nonprofit institutions increased by 20 percent, from 2.2 to 2.7 million students.
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.
Keri Trimble, a 33-year-old employee at a utility call center, was shopping for an online college so she could take classes at night and on weekends. Trimble rejected Apollo Group Inc. (APOL)’s University of Phoenix, the dominant player in the market for selling Internet degrees to working adults. Instead, she chose Arizona State University’s program, which typically charges almost 30 percent less.
Free online courses offered by universities including Harvard and Princeton may one day award college credit, after a higher education trade group said it will study their eligibility.
The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) has awarded 7,000 scholarships to students of private institutions this year based on the Royal Directives of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
If all goes according to plan, Grand Canyon University's teams will play in a Division I athletics conference and its campus will maintain a hub of academic research. But it won't be easy for the Phoenix-based for-profit college, as its entire industry is under heavy scrutiny from the Obama administration and members of Congress, and since GCU was singled out in a U.S. Senate report just a few months ago.
The controversial for-profit college industry, threatened by the Obama administration's efforts to hold it accountable for a torrent of waste, fraud, and abuse at the expense of students and taxpayers, bet heavily on a Romney and GOP victory in 2012.
A task force convened by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities released a final report Wednesday that recommends changes to the Department of Education's annual financial responsibility measurement, a combination of three financial ratios that helps determine whether institutions can qualify for federal financial aid.
For-profit college giant Career Education Corp. announced that it will close 23 of its 90 campuses and eliminate 900 jobs after the company reported a net loss this quarter of $33 million and a 23 percent drop in new student enrollment.
It's the for-profit University of Phoenix, which has recently been spending nearly $400,000 a day on ads, according to search analytics firm SpyFu, more than any financial firm or retailer, the traditional big spenders on online advertising.
National University College-Online, a Puerto Rico-based private, for-profit college, is expanding into Hispanic communities across the United States through its online division.
National University College-Online, a Puerto Rico-based private college, is expanding into Hispanic communities across the U.S. through its online division. Both Arizona and Florida are on the for-profit college’s list for that growth, according to a story in our sister paper, New Mexico Business Weekly.
A private Indian university plans to open a campus for 15,000 foreign students in London, it was announced today as Boris Johnson continued his whirlwind tour of the country to promote links with the United Kingdom.
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.
Rice University’s first dual-degree doctoral program with the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), located in Brazil, was approved by the Faculty Senate on Nov. 14.
In late August, Duke University received approval from the Chinese government to start a branch campus in Kunshan, China. The controversial venture has caused a number of critics to question Duke’s rationale, as well as the rationale of other prominent American universities that have tried similar operations, with limited success.
Government is to come up with new policies that will support private universities in research and development, a senior education official has announced.
En tiempos en los que la inversión pública permanece en estado de coma profundo, la provincia de Málaga se erige en polo de atracción para la empresa educativa privada. El interés de la Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM) por fijar un campus en la capital así como el concurso público al que ha dado alas el Ayuntamiento de Marbella para albergar una universidad de carácter internacional en su término municipal genera debate y plantea preguntas. La primera y más evidente de las cuestiones es si un centro educativo de estas características supone una nueva fuente de riqueza para un territorio. Y si es así, cuál es el precio.
Kenyan universities edged out their East African counterparts to emerge top in a new survey focused on the adoption of information and communication technology in higher education. Private universities outperformed public institutions and Uganda’s Makerere University was placed first.
El secretario general del PSPV, Ximo Puig, ha lamentado que la política del PP "atenta contra la igualdad" porque "se está facilitando la creación de universidades privadas y, al mismo tiempo, se está limitando la acción de las universidades públicas".
La Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), nace a iniciativa de un grupo de empresarios visionarios que decidieron crear una universidad orientada a formar profesionales altamente calificados para fortalecer al sector empresarial privado de Bolivia.
La Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile, el Consejo de Rectores, el Consorcio de Universidades Estatales y la Agrupación de Universidades Regionales presentarán una propuesta común a la subcomisión mixta que revisa las partidas de educación, para “fortalecer la educación pública”, la que tendrá un marcado énfasis en terminar con el financiamiento de instituciones privadas.
El pleno de Les Corts Valencianes ha aprobado hoy, por los votos a favor del PP y en contra de la oposición, la ley que reconoce a la Universidad Europea de Valencia como universidad privada integrada en el sistema universitario valenciano .
La Fundación Defendamos la Ciudad ingresó hoy en el Consejo para la Transparencia un documento en el cual reclama que el Ministerio de Educación no ha dado respuesta satisfactoria de la solicitud de información publica de fecha 13 de julio de 2012 respecto de datos relevantes asociados a las 60 universidades privadas que hay en Chile.
El rector de la Universidad Autónoma de La Laguna calificó de positivo el primero informe de Rubén Moreira, sin embargo, dijo que esperan llegue el presupuesto pactado con el mandatario en varias reuniones.
El Ministerio de Educación promueve una política de privatización abierta, desplegando sus esfuerzos en entregar recursos públicos a las universidades privadas, en cantidades que no tiene precedentes en la historia del país. Incluso de manera inexplicable y nunca vista se acaba de aprobar, a propuesta del señor Ministro de Educación, miles de millones de pesos para inversiones en infraestructura con dinero del Estado para universidades que pertenecen a empresas privadas nacionales o extranjeras.
La Subsecretaría de Comercio comunicó a los responsables de establecimientos educativos universitarios privados con filiales en la provincia, que deberán informar anualmente a la Dirección Nacional de Comercio Interior dependiente de la Secretaría de Comercio de la Nación, el valor total de la cuota mensual (o arancel) y toda otra erogación obligatoria asociada a la prestación del servicio educativo.