Seattle's entrepreneurial bug seems to have bitten the noted biologist Leroy Hood. Last month, the chairman of the department of molecular biotechnology left the University of Washington to start a...
Part-time professors at Emerson College, in Boston, have voted overwhelmingly to unionize -- one of the first such moves by part-timers at private colleges in the Northeast.
Findings of a nationwide survey of campus facilities, now in its second year, show that private colleges and universities typically have far more usable space per student than their public...
New York's private colleges will be able to tap into public funds to pay for construction projects under an unusual new program in the $106.6-billion state budget that lawmakers...
The presidents of eight private colleges earned more than $500,000 in pay and benefits in 1997-98, and 13 others topped $400,000, a Chronicle survey has found.
Tokyo For the first time in Japan's history, a public university and a private university have agreed to let students and faculty members work on both campuses.
Show, don't tell: That's what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit told the National Labor Relations Board this week. A three-judge panel of the appellate court ruled on...
A committee headed by the district collector recently found a full-time lecturer at a government college practising at a private hospital and also claiming non-practise allowance given to doctors for refraining from private practice. Following the incident, the committee is all set to launch a drive across the district to identify such bogus practitioners and clinics.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in Region 12 has endorsed for approval by its central office the application of 16 private colleges and universities in the region to increase their tuition and other fees this school year.
With the annual cost of attendance at many private colleges and universities now exceeding $50,000, some of these schools are coming up with creative ways to get more low-income students to apply.
After scanning for laws in states across the country that allow illegal institutes of higher education to be prosecuted, with no success, the Goa government has sat down to formulate its own regulation that will punish those offering higher education courses without approvals from bodies like the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission.
It is high school graduation season. Many of the new grads are among the 1 million people who will walk into a so-called "for-profit school" like Sanford Brown. As NewsChannel 5 I-Team reporter Farrah Fazal discovered, they may walk out with a piece of paper that is worthless.
The Karnataka government is keen on implementing the provisions of a 2006 law to regulate admission and determine the fee structure in private medical, dental and engineering colleges.
The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) will start postgraduate medical and dental counseling between May 23 and 27, while the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) will hold it on May 27.
The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities and 54 others yesterday obtained the green light from the High Court to quash a circular in relation to the new registration system of international students in local private institutions.
The King Faisal Foundation has announced plans to establish the first private university in Saudi Arabia. The new institution, to be called Dar al-Faisal University, is being built in the Saudi...
By now, practically everyone in Iran has become aware of the long-simmering battle between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his rivals over the control and status of Azad University (AU). Since the day he took office, Ahmadinejad has covetously eyed the holdings of the largest private university chain in Iran -- and possibly the world. With an enrollment of 1.3 million students, 351 campuses, and more than $200 billion in known assets, there are few institutions in its league. By comparison, Harvard University's assets are estimated at $43.8 billion; the University of California system's, $60 billion.
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