Their degrees are not recognized, but they remain popular with students Many scholars think of Greece as the ancient birthplace of higher learning, where Plato's academy thrived
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has signed a decree legalizing private colleges and universities. The decree could pave the way for American colleges to open branches in the country.
India's Parliament has amended the country's Constitution to impose admission quotas for lower castes and classes on nearly all private colleges that do not receive government aid.
Wood College, in Mississippi, has closed its doors after 117 years. The two-year private college lost its accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in March 2002 because
"Legal Education in Germany Faces Iconoclastic Competitor" (June 1) indicated the fulfillment of a wish I heard about in the fall of 1964. At that time, I was a
Four-year private institutions spent about $2,073 to recruit each new student in 2005, more than four times what four-year public institutions spent and 28 times what two-year public colleges spent...
Private colleges took on higher levels of debt in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, but they also kept themselves financially healthy, thanks to positive...
Another week, another transaction involving a for-profit online college. The latest: A private-equity group is buying Northcentral University, an all-online institution founded in 1996 and now...
Sometimes a university's best efforts to work with local public schools can hit obstacles -- just ask the University of Hartford. It took officials there a decade to negotiate the political and...
A new report that compares colleges by how accessible they are to needy students is drawing the ire of private-college leaders and lobbyists. The report, released last week by the Lumina Foundation...
Some 35 percent of first-time, full-time college students who plan to earn a bachelor's degree reach their goal within four years, and 56 percent achieve it within six years, according to a report ...
During the past two decades, public outcry over rising college prices at selective private colleges has escalated. Although since 1995 tuition has not risen relative to median family income, the...
A private university in North Korea will probably open this year, despite problems securing funds and persuading professors to come teach in the reclusive state, insist the organizers behind the...
Few patterns emerge -- except that few institutions will forgo increases With much fanfare, Williams College announced last year that for the first time in half a century, it would not raise...
Peru has authorized two private universities to reorganize as corporations. The country's National Council for the Authorization and Operation of Universities decided last month that Peruvian Applied Sciences University and Saint Ignatius Loyola University could register as corporations while still maintaining their status as universities.
The British government will abandon plans to make it easier for private higher-education institutions, including for-profit American companies, to operate in the country, reports The Telegraph.
The lower revenue expected by a "significant minority" of such colleges could hurt their future financial strength, says a Moody's Investors Service report.
Gov. George E. Pataki of New York wants the state's private colleges to be able to compete, for the first time, for public funds to help pay for capital projects
The establishment of a new private liberal-arts college in London, which was announced to widespread media coverage on Sunday, appears to have already hit several significant hurdles. A.C. Grayling, a well-known philosopher and the driving force behind the New College of the Humanities, had said in an introduction to the institution posted on its Web site that its students would have access to many resources at the University of London, including its libraries. However, in a statement, the University of London said that there was “no formal agreement between the University of London and the NCH concerning academic matters” and that there was not yet any agreement “regarding access to the Senate House Libraries by NCH students.”
With college enrollments mushrooming in many nations but public support generally unable to keep up, the world is seeing a historic swing from public to private financing of higher education...
The economic picture for private colleges and universities in the 2002-3 fiscal year looks less promising than it did six months ago, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
A physician plans to open what will become Britain's first privately financed medical school since the 19th century, promising to train doctors in about half the time it takes at one of the nation'...
A German-born Swiss businessman has pledged to give more than $250-million over the next five years to a private university in the city of Bremen, in northern Germany. The donation is the largest...
Private higher education in Turkey is expanding. The opening last month of Sabanci University marked the addition of a major new campus in Istanbul, one of two being built. Sabanci University's...
With all academe's interest in endowment growth, we may sometimes lose sight of the fact that a college's purpose is not to acquire wealth but to educate students. Isn't that what public colleges...
Professors at LeMoyne-Owen College have won the right to form a union, but the administration at the private Tennessee college is refusing to bargain and continues to wage a legal battle against...
A private university in Belarus is suspending its operations after being given two weeks to vacate its main building by the government, which in July mounted a crippling assault on the defiant 11-year-old institution.
Long before the Chinese government began in earnest to reform the country's vocational-education system, a thriving private market provided many students with the technical training needed to get...
Gaps in faculty pay between private and public colleges and universities continue to widen, warned the American Association of University Professors in its annual report on the economic status of...
La universidad privada, contra una nueva ley de educación superior | "Los problemas no son jurídicos", dijo el presidente del Consejo de Rectores - lanacion.com
En México sólo 10 por ciento de las universidades privadas cuenta con acreditación de calidad; apenas 37 escuelas tienen carreras reconocidas por el Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior, y sólo 49 posgrados son válidos para la SEP y el Conacyt. Además, entre 2000 y 2008, a 432 instituciones se les negó el Registro de Validez Oficial y a 99 se les retiró el reconocimiento de sus planes de estudio.
Las universidades privadas surgen por exceso de demanda de estudiantes señaló el supervisor de educación superior zona 010, Moisés Torres Lechuga, pero reconoció que un porcentaje de esos alumnos deserta antes de concluir sus estudios universitarios.
The head of Britain's first for-profit university college was paid £738,000 ($1,177,000) in one year, while the co-chief executive officer of the firm’s U.S. owner has a long-term pay deal valued at £15.8 million ($25.2 million).
High fees plus the prohibition of any part-time working by international students at private colleges have ensured the dramatic contraction of the industry, says Geoffrey Alderman
Greece is facing the prospect of legal action by the European Union unless it satisfies Brussels that it will lift a series of restrictions on private colleges.