Over 7.5 million students in Nepal's private educational institutions were affected by a nation-wide strike to protest various incidents of arson carried out by Maoist linked student bodies.
Chairman of All Nepal National Independent Students Union Revolutionary (ANNISUR) Himal Sharma warned that no power can impede the students’ move to form student unions affiliated to political parties in the private colleges.
Private engineering colleges have taken strong exception to the state government's decision to increase seats in government-run colleges while stopping the private ones from hiking their intake capacity.
After downsizing, private engineering colleges in the state are planning substantial increase in fees from the forthcoming academic year. At least 40 private engineering colleges have been pleading to revise their annual fees.
The former Hang Seng School of Commerce, founded with initial funding from Hang Seng Bank that provided A-level courses and business education, changed its purpose and was renamed in 2010 as a provider of degree programmes in business, journalism, English and translation.
Speaking about the modus operandi of the incident, Sharma said Behera had provided the question paper of physics on March 6 evening to Barik. Crime Branch officials suspect involvement of more private colleges in the question paper leak incident.
Minister of State for Higher Education Badri Narayan Patra on Thursday assured the Assembly that the Government will review the functioning and the fee structure of the private colleges.
In Robert Brennan’s office, on a shelf across from his desk, sits a wedge-shape chunk of green marble. Etched into the marble are two numbers: Mount St. Mary’s University’s endowment figure, $44 million on June 30, 2008, before the stock market nose dived, and $36 million a year later.
The North Carolina House says campus police at private colleges should be required to provide the same information about arrests and emergency calls as public universities and city police must do.
The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has accredited Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU) as the 30th private university in the country.
Regent's College in London will become only the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London.
The issue of allowing private universities to set up campuses in Himachal Pradesh came up in the state assembly Tuesday with members raising questions about the credentials of some of these institutions.
Himachal Pradesh government stated in the assembly that it is not certain about the authenticity of degrees being provided by the fifteen private universities which came up in the state during last BJP rule.
The issue of permission granted to large number of private universities to set up campuses in Himachal Pradesh and land purchased by them, rocked Assembly on Tuesday with members questioning the credentials of these universities and the degrees being awarded by them.
ADG (CB) Bijay Sharma said Debendra Behera, suspended deputy secretary of Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in Sambalpur, had entered into a deal with private colleges to provide them question papers for money. Speaking about the modus operandi, Sharma said Behera had designed two modules to charge the private colleges.
Students taking admission to technical institutions affiliated to the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) across the state are likely to see a change in fee structure as fee in all technical courses running in private engineering and management colleges in the state is being fixed.
While most private engineering colleges have decided to resume classes next week, government colleges are awaiting a notification from the Higher Education Department to reopen.
Seven of the Hudson Valley's major private colleges -- including liberal arts institutions like Vassar, Sarah Lawrence and Bard -- boast an average graduation rate of 71 percent, well above the nationwide rate of 65 percent for peer institutions, according to new federal data.
In a major setback to private engineering colleges operating without proper infrastructure and required faculty, the state government has ordered a "physical inspection" to ascertain the actual facilities available in the institutions.