A US$150 million equity investment by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) into US-based for-profit education company Laureate Education will help spearhead a push into Africa, in line with World Bank aims to develop post-secondary education and skills training on the continent.
Malaysia has announced a two year moratorium on new private tertiary institutions with the aim to raise its status as an educational hub. “Highly rated” foreign campuses are exempt from the freeze.
Crandall University will not apply for $150,000 that it has received annually as it attempts to move away from an ongoing controversy over what some say are anti-gay policies, according to its president.
State government’s proposal to set up engineering colleges in the state with an aim to improve the quality of technical education for students with subsidised fees has come as jolt to private colleges in the state operating with poor infrastructure and inadequate teaching staff.
Open markets for training funds have crippled some commercial colleges, according to the peak body ACPET, which says governments need to consider the impacts of their policies on private as well as public providers.
The Private Universities Students’ Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has appealed to the Ministry of Education, to integrate them into the administration of tertiary education in Ghana.
The Legislative Council on Tuesday gave its nod for setting up three more private universities in the State, CMR University, New Baldwin University and Presidency University.
Legislative council on Tuesday approved the establishment of three private universities in the state and of them all the three are located in Bangalore. Universities are, one will be started by C M R Janaradhana trust , second by Baldwin education society and the third by Presidency education society .
The bills which were passed in the Council in a matter of ten minutes, without any discussion, saw its members stage a walkout in protest against the government’s move. Though members in the Assembly did not staunchly oppose the bills, they did question the credentials of the varsities proposed to be set up.
Having opposed the setting up of private universities in Himachal Pradesh, claiming that in the name of universities, shops are being opened, the Congress party has finally succeeded in starting a government probe into the opening of such universities. Besides checking the records, revenue officials are conducting physical verification of these universities to find out the truth.
The government has undertaken to set up non-state universities through the Board of Investment (BoI), leaving aside the Higher Education Ministry only to standardize such academic institutions, officials said yesterday.
Both the Houses of the State Legislature adopted four more private university Bills on the last day of the budget session amid protest by the Opposition parties, who took exception to the indiscriminate and the hurried manner in which approvals were being granted to the private universities raising suspicion of involvement of “business interests”.
The state government has recommended the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) not to extend the approval of three engineering colleges in the state for the academic year 2013-'14.
Leaders at Grinnell College, one of the nation’s wealthiest private liberal arts colleges, are expected to vote today on a reduction of financial aid for students because of budget problems.
Eleven private dental colleges of Punjab have admitted 456 students to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course even though they had “not qualified” the 2012 Pre-Medical Entrance Test (PMET), according to a “most urgent” communication of the Dental Council of India (DCI).
Students earning an associate degree at the state’s technical colleges can transfer into 19 Georgia private colleges under an agreement signed Wednesday
We welcome the government's plan to set up an accreditation council which will independently review the academic standards of private universities. This will increase transparency of the institutions, allowing people to know university rankings and to ensure healthy competition among private educational institutions and quality education overall.