The Office of Admissions at New York University fielded a flurry of calls from rejected applicants who just couldn’t understand why they didn’t get into the prestigious private university. Some played the race card. Others just called and cried.
The Nitish regime has cleared the decks for establishing private varsities with the passing of the Bihar Private University Bill, 2013, by the Legislative Assembly.
The bill on private universities is to facilitate setting up of three new private universities in the state. These are Lakulish Yoga University at Ahmedabad, Team Lease Skills University-ITI at Tarsali in Vadodara and CU Shah University at Wadhwan in Surendranagar.
The private university Act was enacted in 2007 to reduce the burden on state universities, but only 11 private universities could start ever since. The outcome is rising number of students continue to put a strain on government universities.
While there has been no official communication from the government on reopening of colleges under its administration, many private engineering colleges in and around the city have asked their students to get back to classes on Monday after close to a month’s closure owing to the anti-Sri Lanka protests.
To improve treatment for tuberculosis, the Department of Health and Family Welfare is collaborating with private hospitals and private medical colleges in the State.
Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) has an outstanding amount of Rs 4 crore on 20 private engineering colleges on account of development fees yet to be paid by them for the last five years despite repeated reminders. The university has now decided to tighten the noose on defaulters while sending them final notices informing to stop affiliation of major defaulters and to deduct number of seats of minor defaulters.
Uncertainty continues over the method of admission for MBBS and BDS courses in private medical colleges as they have advertised to conduct their own entrance tests. Things will depend on the Supreme Court verdict on whether the colleges will draw students from National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) or from their own entrance exam.
The Education and Training Employees Association (ETEA) has announced that two more groups of teaching faculty from private post-secondary institutions in downtown Vancouver have voted to unionize with them.
Kuching plays host to a myriad of private colleges – whether they are subsidiaries of universities or university colleges established in West Malaysia or private institutions that conduct franchised programmes from fully-fledged universities. BizHive Weekly talks to three major college players, namely Sunway College Kuching, Segi College Kuching and FTMS International Kuching, on their thoughts about the industry and future growth plans.
Eight out of the 17 private schools, colleges and universities in this city were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in Zamboanga peninsula (Region 9) to increase their respective tuition fees effective school year 2013-2014.
The improvement reflects a major shift in the educational sector over the past decade, including an expansion in the higher education section sector in terms of new private universities and colleges.
Bryant University is set to strengthen ties with China by signing new partnership agreements with two universities when a delegation led by a senior Chinese education official visits the private school in Smithfield over the weekend.
Mount Kenya University deputy vice chancellor Evans Kerosi said the move will increase the number of students in private universities to be admitted through a joint admission board.
The National Union of Students of the Philippines challenged private higher education institutions (HEIs) to follow the move of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) to implement a tuition hike moratorium.
After providing a free undergraduate education for around 100 years, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will begin charging students to attend in the fall of 2014. Students will still receive a big break, amounting to a 50% discount on the cost of tuition, but the days of full scholarship are over.
The higher-education company DeVry Inc. is facing inquiries from the offices of the attorneys general of Illinois and Massachusetts, according to a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
For the last three years, the senator has been in the spotlight for investigating for-profit colleges. In what Republicans denounced as a partisan witch hunt, he found that for-profit universities and colleges were receiving a growing share of federal student aid but spending much of the money on marketing and aggressive (sometimes fraudulent) recruiting, while students were taking on excessive debt, quickly dropping out and, all too often, landing in default.
SEIU joined with a large coalition of progressive groups calling on President Obama to reinforce the "gainful employment" requirement for career educational programs, specifically for-profit colleges and universities. SEIU was joined by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the United States Student Association, the NAACP, and dozens of other organizations in sending a letter to the President on Monday.