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- Desde finales de los años ochenta1 hemos presenciado la rápida expansión del sector privado en la educación superior. La educación superior privada ha experimentado un crecimiento de más del doble en lo que va del siglo XXI –concentrando actualmente al 33% de la matrícula de educación superior total del país–. De hecho, siete de cada 10 instituciones de educación superior en México pertenecen al sector privado. Pero uno de los fenómenos más importantes de los últimos 15 años de la oferta privada es el relacionado con la nueva tendencia de regionalización y dispersión territorial de la oferta educativa, caracterizada por rebasar los límites de las ciudades y expandirse hacia las zonas no metropolitanas de los estados.
- En el caso de universidades, una de las garantías que da la norma es que la institución certificada debe contar con procesos claros, estandarizados y con responsables definidos para todos los trámites y servicios que ofrece. Eso evitaría problemas como las decisiones arbitrarias, la negación de servicios y temas similares que figuran entre las denuncias recibidas por el Consejo Nacional de Enseñanza Superior Universitaria Privada (Conesup) entre 2017 y 2019 (véase gráfico “Quejas en educación superior”).
- María Olivia Monckeberg, antes de que estuviera en la agenda pública, denunció el lucro en la educación chilena. La periodista y escritora, quien ha publicado dos libros sobre esta problemática, conversó con CNN Chile sobre los detalles de su tercera publicación, titulada "Con Fines de Lucro".
- With the Himachal Pradesh High Court last week quashing the State Private Educational Institutions (Regulatory) Act of 2010, the state now lacks a mechanism to monitor its 16 private universities and an equal number of private institutes, mainly engineering colleges, officials said on Friday.
- Lesley University is changing its undergraduate tuition pricing model. The objective is to reduce the tuition price and tuition discounting so that more people see the actual cost of attending Lesley.
- De las tres adecuaciones que las universidades privadas deberán realizar de cara al Reglamento General y Reglamentos Específicos de Universidades Privadas, emitido por el Ministerio de Educación, ya se ha cumplido una. "Hasta el mes de febrero, todas estas instituciones entregaron sus marcos normativos que deberán adecuarse al nuevo reglamento. Y para la adecuación de la malla curricular el plazo es hasta agosto del presente año", informó Alejandro Gómez, responsable de Universidades del Ministerio de Educación. La autoridad académica recordó que para la tercera adecuación, de infraestructura, el plazo se cumple en cuatro años.
- De la misma manera que había hecho antes Casares, aseguró que el funcionamiento actual de las universidades privadas no es el idóneo y se debe corregir para evitar que sean estrictamente negocios para ganar dinero.
- Mayoría de estas instituciones aumentaron de 12 a 20% sus pensiones en solo dos años, según estudio.
- Adding to its commitment to the American retail industry as a vital sector of the country's economy, University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest private universities, and Stein Mart today announced a new scholarship program for employees of the nationwide retailer.
- “Hay que asegurar que ningún peso público pueda terminar incrementando el lucro que está prohibido”, afirmó el Rector Víctor Pérez, quien cuestionó las altas sumas de dinero que reciben las universidades privadas, sin control fiscal.
- Once the hottest things in higher education, private, for-profit colleges and universities have suddenly found themselves on the business equivalent of academic probation.
- Andhra Pradesh, which basked in the glory of being a leading educational hub, is now staring at the problem of plenty as the professional colleges mushroomed in the state have registered poor response.
- Some of the private medical and dental colleges in the country are allegedly making millions of takas illegally by admitting local students in seats reserved for foreign students.
- Economic stagnation and high youth unemployment in developed countries have contributed to emerging concerns over whether traditional models of higher education are capable of producing employable graduates, the International Finance Corporation's 6th International Private Education Conference heard in San Francisco this month.
- Tightening conditions for student and tourist visas is not the answer to curb the influx of foreign workers disguised as students, said an education group. The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities (MAPCU) said the way to strike at the issue is to take drastic action against the culprits.
- The amount of private donations being handed to UK universities is growing faster than in the US - and is being driven by Cambridge and Oxford, a study has found.
- Aggressive recruiters, toll-free numbers and late-night TV commercials mark some of the tactics used by fraudulent for-profit schools that Attorney General Martha Coakley said her office is investigating.
- Our annual rankings of the best values in private colleges and universities (kiplinger.com/links/privatecolleges) highlight some interesting trends -- one of which is that private four-year schools are pumping the brakes on tuition increases. This year, private institutions raised tuition by an average of 3.56 percent, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. That's the lowest increase in four decades.
- IN his 2011 TED talk, Gene Wade thus shared his vision of an ultra low-cost college degree for working adults. As of today, he has raised $42 million in venture capital for his new company, UniversityNow, and its two for-profit universities, Patten and New Charter. The first students started in the spring. Around the same time, Forbes magazine named Mr. Wade the most disruptive figure in education.
- De acuerdo al Grupo Educación al Futuro, el incremento de universidades privadas ha sido explosiva tanto en Lima como en las principales ciudades del país.
- The commission to regulate the private educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh now is invalid and so are its assessment orders, circulars, and notices.
- Every year, price increases at private colleges prompt a round of appalled responses and calls for corrective action. But even as some sticker prices approach $60,000 a year, the amount that students actually pay — because of increased discounts, grants and tax benefits — has barely changed over the last decade, according to a major analysis of college costs published this week.
- Part-time faculty at several Boston-area colleges, frustrated by low pay and emboldened by their growing ranks, are taking steps to unionize amid an emerging national movement to give adjunct professors the chance to negotiate better working conditions and benefits.
- Even though colleges have slowed the rate at which they raise tuition, the total grant aid available to students has not been able to keep pace with tuition growth, according to two reports released Wednesday by the College Board.
- El Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE) cuenta desde hoy con un nuevo integrante tras la juramentación de Jorge Armando Rodríguez Vélez, representante de las facultades de Derecho de las universidades privadas del Perú.
- Siendo aprobada la reforma hacendaria por el Congreso de la Unión y la Cámara de Senadores se impondrán más cargas tributarias a las empresas y población en general, lo que repercutirá en una baja en las percepciones y una alza en el pago de impuestos, por lo que las universidades privadas de La Laguna de Durango analizan las acciones a seguir en este escenario. Coincidieron los directivos de la Universidad La Salle Laguna, UNID y Universidad Autónoma de Durango en que se están analizando las opciones, pero que algo claro es que no se buscará un aumento al pago de colegiaturas.
- Emory University is once again among the 20 top values in liberal arts colleges and private universities in the U.S.
- Durante el año 2012 el sistema de educación superior en Chile obtuvo ingresos por $3.115.145 millones, es decir, más que las subvenciones que se entregaron a todos los colegios del país ($2.992.000 millones) en ese periodo.
- La expansión de la educación privada, especialmente en el nivel superior, es responsabilidad de las autoridades y funcionarios, pues han brindado demasiadas facilidades para su instalación, indicó el investigador Uriel Soto Barrera.
- El presidente de la Federación de Instituciones Privadas de Educación Superior (Fipes) afirmó que, de aprobarse, la norma aumentaría las trabas burocráticas. Congresista Daniel Mora niega esta acusación
- La disputa legal entre la CCSS y las universidades privadas por el uso y cobro de los campos clínicos para los estudiantes de último año de Medicina, tuvo un nuevo capítulo hace dos semanas; esta vez, a favor de la entidad pública.
- Facing a shrinking pool of young people because of the declining birthrate, four top private colleges in western Japan are setting up offices abroad to lure bright foreign students, utilizing attractions such as nanotechnology and geisha in Kyoto.
- An informal survey of Fitch Ratings' private college and university portfolio was undertaken in mid August in order to get an early indication on fall 2013 enrollment and fiscal 2014 operations. Overall, the responses paint a largely stable picture. However, these individual metrics in isolation may not depict the whole credit picture but can provide an early indicator of credit stress.
- The parent company of the University of Phoenix announced Tuesday that it is laying off 500 workers around the country as it faces declining enrollment and transitions to more online-only courses.
- A 34,000-student university in Chile affiliated with Laureate Education, Inc. has received notification from the National Accreditation Commission that its institutional accreditation will not be renewed at the end of its current three-year term. The Universidad de las Américas plans to appeal the decision, which -- if it stands – would mean that new students would be ineligible for government loans or grants.
- Ernesto Perez has resigned as president and chief executive officer of Dade Medical College, a for-profit institution in Florida, less than a week after prosecutors charged him with perjury and providing false information through a sworn statement, according to reports by The Miami Herald and the South Florida Business Journal.
- The for-profit college industry is under pressure. Many of its biggest companies are being investigated by federal agencies and state attorneys general for fraud and misrepresentation -- deceiving students, regulators, and investors about job placement rates, costs and quality of programs, transferability of credits, and other matters. Enrollments are down, and share prices have been falling.
- El acta de la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación deja constancia de las razones por las cuales la UDLA no logró la acreditación. Señala que no tiene capacidad para sustentar su proyecto educativo, el que califica de “poco orientador”. También cuestiona el número de docentes y habla de bajas tasas de titulación.
- La candidata presidencial de la Alianza, Evelyn Matthei, anunció este sábado que, de llegar a la Presidencia, no permitirá el lucro en las universidades.
- Private nonprofit colleges increased tuition by 3.6 percent on average for this academic year, according to a survey from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of its members. It’s the lowest rate of tuition increase increase since at least 1972. And the association found that financial aid budgets have increased more quickly than tuition.
- The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, or APSCU, is the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group for America's for-profit colleges. APSCU has opposed a wide range of reasonable efforts by the Obama administration and members of Congress to hold bad actors in its industry accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse with the roughly $32 billion a year in federal tax dollars they receive.
- Private providers, including universities’ own offshoots, have been pinpointed as a major risk to English higher education in a new report.
- Application will be open to the graduates of secondary schools or equivalent in the year 2006/2007 and up to the year 2011-2012. The ministry will cover full tuition fees, agreed on with private higher education institutions beginning from the academic year 2013-2014.
- Students of private institutions kept last year’s trend alive by outperforming their counterparts at the public sector colleges when the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the commerce group results on Thursday.
- With private engineering colleges in the state facing a large number of student vacancies, some of them are resorting to unscrupulous means to fill up seats.
- More than half of private colleges that grant bachelor’s degrees and public colleges that grant bachelor’s and master’s degrees had not met their fall enrollment goals by May 1, according to the latest “Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admission Directors.”
- As we move from a federal budget crisis towards a federal debt crisis, ways to reign in student debt will almost certainly be on the table. The US government spends about $5.5 billion subsidizing student loans each year, depending on who you ask. It's a rather elusive figure. Student debt, more so than other forms of debt, is particularly complicated for many reasons.
- The University of Phoenix's parent company reported an 18-percent drop in enrollment and a 36-percent decline in operating income in just one year.
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- El Cotidiano, (Enero-Febrero 2019)
- Higher Education, (2018)
- Higher Education, 74 (2): 259--281 (Aug 1, 2017)
- Higher Education Quarterly, 71 (2): 182-203 (April 2017)
- Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 39 (4): 453--468 (2017)
- Sociology of Education, 90 (4): 296--314 (2017)
- Journal of Economic Issues, 51 (2): 366--374 (2017)
- Journal of Education Policy, (2017)
- John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, (2017)
- Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, (2017)
- Higher Education, (2017)
- International Higher Education, (2017)
- ANUIES, (2017)
- Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, (2017)
- 90. HEPI, Oxford, (2017)
- Revista Argentina de Educación Superior, (November 2016)
- Studies in Higher Education, 0 (0): 1--12 (November 2016)
- International Higher Education, 0 (87): 24--25 (September 2016)
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- Working Paper, The Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education, London, London, (2016)
