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...
Al-Zarqa Private University, one of the top private universities in the country, declined to renew the scholars' contracts at the end of the academic year. Many faculty members at the university, which is located in Az Zarqa, an industrial city northeast of Amman, operate under such contracts.
At a time when U.S. colleges stand accused of illegally profiting from unsavory associations with businesses involved in awarding federal student aid, at least one major public university has found an apparently legal partner: a for-profit university.
Thanks to a hastily adopted stopgap measure signed into law this month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, some 400,000 students attending proprietary colleges in California will again be afforded some level of promise that the degrees and credits they earn will be recognized outside the state.
In a reversal of a recent trend, a nonprofit university has bought a for-profit college, part of the university's broader strategy of giving some of those ever-growing higher-education companies a run for their money.
Career Education Corporation, one of the country's largest operators of for-profit colleges, has announced that the U.S. Department of Justice concluded its three-year criminal investigation of the company and decided that no charges will be brought against it.
Patrick Awuah, Ashesi University's president, celebrated the fifth anniversary of Ghana's first liberal arts college this week in Seattle. After an eight-year career at Microsoft, Awuah, a native Ghanaian, founded Ashesi in 2002 with this vision: "Imagine if every Sub-Saharan African country had several small liberal-arts colleges, educating students at a level equivalent to liberal-arts colleges in the United States -- colleges dedicated to nurturing critical thinking, effective communication skills, practical experience, and a true concern for society in their students."
The Greek Parliament passed a controversial education bill this month that sparked rioting in the streets of Athens. Police said it was the worst unrest the city had seen for years. At least 20 people were injured, 47 were detained, and 11 were arrested, the Associated Press reported.
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 report says.
For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. The for-profit educational sector is composed of a diverse set of colleges, but most of the literature neatly ignores this.
The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development will launch a special task force to investigate admission irregularities at private universities in the wake of a bribery scandal involving Yonsei University.
THE HIGHER Education Department will initiate strict action against the private colleges that do not adhere to the rules. Also the recognition of such colleges could be cancelled, the Principal Secretary of the department Dr Bhagirath Prasad has warned.
FOLLOWING UP its warning to private technical colleges regarding charging of higher fees, the Directorate of Technical Education on Wednesday cracked down on at least three private colleges in the City, checking their records, mainly vis-à-vis collection of fees.
The company, which owns the University of Phoenix, and the Carlyle Group plan to invest up to $1-billion in education institutions and services abroad.
A private-equity firm that focuses on investments in education companies has acquired Schiller International University, a family-owned college of about 1,200 students that is based in Florida and has campuses in six countries.
The group of Laureate Education Inc. managers and outside investors who are seeking to buy out the company and take it private have upped their $3.8-billion offer by $1.50 per share.
Two years after New York State set up a grant program for construction projects at private nonprofit colleges, all $150-million remains in the account, the Times Union newspaper, in Albany, N.Y., reported. Some 50 applications for grants are pending, but the review board that must unanimously approve them still lacks the required three members.
The nonprofit Touro College announced this morning that it had signed a deal to sell its 7,500-student online division to a private-equity fund — in a transaction that signals investors’ continuing confidence in distance education as a way to make money in higher education.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities has rolled out a sample template that will allow participating colleges to make available data on a number of measures, including academic programs, graduation rates, and financial-aid awards, in a more comparable, user-friendly format.
On considerations like how clear the path to tenure is, or how plainly an institution communicates its expectations of professors, junior faculty members at public colleges rate their institutions...
Sallie Mae, the country’s largest holder of student loans, is talking with private-equity investors about a possible buyout of the lender that could be worth more than $20-billion, The New York Times reported this morning, citing unnamed people who had been “briefed on the discussions.”
Thanks to a hastily adopted stopgap measure signed into law this month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, some 400,000 students attending proprietary colleges in California will again be afforded...
The company that owns the University of Phoenix announced on Monday a venture with the Carlyle Group, a private-equity firm, that will invest up to $1-billion in education institutions and service...
Laureate Education Inc., which operates a network of 24 universities overseas and the all-online Walden University, has agreed to be acquired for $3.8-billion by a group of private investors led...
The investors who gave $2-million to the financially ailing nonprofit Myers University in May are now battling in court to keep the Cleveland institution from shutting down this month. The investors want to buy the university, though they say they plan to keep it as a nonprofit institution.
In the first five months of a temporary new law that allows older people to donate money from their individual retirement accounts to charities free of income taxes, private colleges received more...
A federal judge has upheld a Colorado tuition-assistance program's policy of denying aid to students who attend a college viewed as "pervasively sectarian." The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge...
Russian higher-education regulators expect to revoke the operating licenses of about 100 private and small state colleges that do not meet quality and safety standards.
Davidson College announced last week that it will no longer offer students loans and will instead meet their financial need with grants and work-study jobs. The change, which takes effect in August...
Russian higher-education regulators have begun a campaign to revoke the operating licenses of the many private and small state colleges that popped up in the 1990s, using fire and safety violations...
The nonprofit Touro College announced last week that it had signed a deal to sell its 7,500-student online division to a private-equity fund, in a transaction that signals investors' continuing...
The disproportionate wealth of a handful of elite private universities "offers a striking manifestation of the contemporary American tendency of the rich to get much richer," says a correspondent...
Touro College completed the sale of its separately accredited online division last week, for the previously undisclosed price of $190-million. The sum is about five times the value of...
Lest anyone doubt that Asia holds promise for American higher-education companies, the chief executive of Laureate Education, who just engineered a $3.8-billion private-equity buyout of the company...
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