Mahama on Saturday urged owners of private tertiary institutions to maintain high standards, cautioning that government could withdraw their accreditation if found to be operating below standards.
Private colleges in Pennsylvania already face difficult finances and unpredictable enrollments as the recession cuts into both their own endowments and what families can afford.
In an economy where money is tight and everyone's looking for a bargain, Florida's most expensive universities are attracting more students than expected.
Kris Neiser lost $3,000 of his hard-earned tuition money to a private career college that shut down abruptly last fall after it operated illegally in plain sight of the provincial government for nearly two years, according to the Ontario ombudsman.
Almost a third of U.S. private colleges expect freshman enrollment to decline in the 2009-2010 school year as families struggle to pay bills and hold down debt, according to a survey.
Under fire over alleged corruption in granting deemed university status to private educational institutes, the ministry of human resource development (HRD), which oversees education, on Friday ordered that the fee committees of state governments fix and regulate fees charged by such institutions.
The news that hit the headlines when the Orissa Assembly was in session in July last was the resistance of the Opposition to the Education Bill that sought the approval of the House for the opening of the three new private universities, namely, the Vedanta University, the Sri Sri University and the ICFAI University which would adopt the state-of-the-art technology in imparting education to the students.
A recent study of the applicants to seven elite colleges in 1997 found that Asian students were much more likely to be rejected than seemingly similar students of other races. Also, athletes and students from top high schools had admissions edges, as did low-income African-Americans and Hispanics.
SOMETHING must be going wrong with our private universities. If you have had cause to follow events, you just might recall the various incidents in which students of one private university have engaged in skirmishes with those of another.
The 323 Malaysian students from Universitas Andalas in Padang can continue their studies at some local private institutions of higher learning (IPT) which are willing to absorb them.
Starting this month, veterans of the post 9/11 era will be able to go to college on the “new G.I. Bill.” But a dispute over language nearly scuttled the back-to-school plans of California vets. KPCC’s Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports.
Charismatic as well as politically astute, Ton Nu Thi Ninh is a patient woman — up to a point. As a high-ranking member of Vietnam's Communist Party, and regarded as the most powerful woman in...
Compensation (pay plus benefits) has grown the fastest for leaders of research institutions, many of which are larger, richer, and more complex than other kinds of institutions.
Because of the huge faculty shortage in India, the Indian government has now prohibited private higher-educational institutions here from using Indian faculty members when setting up campuses abroad, The Times of India reported today. Those institutions will also be forbidden to move profits from their domestic campuses to their foreign ones, or to cross-subsidize them.
Waldorf College, a financially struggling private institution in Iowa, has agreed to sell its assets to Columbia Southern University, an online institution based in Alabama.
U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley voiced dismay today over the findings of a report by The Chronicle about compensation for private-college employees other than presidents. The Iowa Republican has been urging private colleges, as nonprofit entities, to rein in pay for their top executives, and he cited the report’s findings that the highest-compensated employees in academe made more than $4-million in 2006-7.
A private-equity group announced today that it was buying Northcentral University, an all-online institution founded in 1996 and now enrolling about 7,500 students, mostly in graduate-level degree programs.
Waldorf College, a financially struggling private institution in Iowa, is discussing a potential sale of its assets to a for-profit, online education company, The Des Moines Register reported.
A new annual-outlook report from Moody’s Investors Service says that higher-education institutions are facing a range of challenges in the next year and a half. Although all colleges will face...
Boston Belmont University believes in the personal touch. Before freshmen start classes this fall, the Christian institution in Nashville will have had multiple personal contacts with the students...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has published a preliminary state-by-state list of maximum in-state tuition and fees, a tally that serves as an early indicator of how much the new GI Bill may cost the federal government. The numbers contain some surprises and bode well for both veterans and the private colleges they may wish to attend.
David M. Walker, the outspoken former U.S. comptroller general, is probably one of the few people who can make a talk about national debt sound like a hellfire-and-brimstone sermon.
Those who testified at a hearing by the U.S. Education Department debated whether rules on recruiting are too lax and made the case for what they would like to see as the department prepares...
Twenty years ago, the private university disbanded its teams. Now it's rebuilding them, with the expectation that sports will attract students in general.
All sectors of higher education -- and especially private colleges -- will face economic hardships in the next year and a half, says a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
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G. Kobilarov, C. Bizer, S. Auer, and J. Lehmann. Proceedings of Developers Track of 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), April 20th-24th, Madrid, Spain, (April 2009)
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S. Dietzold, and T. Riechert. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2009)
T. Berger, S. Dietzold, and T. Riechert. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2009)
S. Auer. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund LIV, (2009)
T. Riechert, F. Zhang, and S. Auer. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2009)
G. Kobilarov, C. Bizer, S. Auer, and J. Lehmann. Proceedings of Developers Track of 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), April 20th-24th, Madrid, Spain, (April 2009)
S. Hellmann, C. Stadler, J. Lehmann, and S. Auer. Proc. of 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), volume 5871 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 1209--1223. (2009)
N. Heino, S. Dietzold, M. Martin, and S. Auer. Networked Knowledge - Networked Media, volume 221 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, (2009)
S. Dietzold, and T. Riechert. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2009)
T. Berger, S. Dietzold, and T. Riechert. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2009)
S. Auer. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund LIV, (2009)
P. Heim, S. Hellmann, J. Lehmann, S. Lohmann, and T. Stegemann. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Media Technologies (SAMT), volume 5887 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 182--187. Springer, (2009)
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S. Hellmann, C. Stadler, J. Lehmann, and S. Auer. Proc. of 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), volume 5871 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 1209--1223. (2009)
T. Riechert, F. Zhang, and S. Auer. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), (2009)
G. Kobilarov, C. Bizer, S. Auer, and J. Lehmann. Proceedings of Developers Track of 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), April 20th-24th, Madrid, Spain, (April 2009)
S. Auer. Agiles Requirements Engineering für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder, volume XVIII of Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik, Leipziger Informatik-Verbund LIV, (2009)
N. Heino, S. Dietzold, M. Martin, and S. Auer. Networked Knowledge - Networked Media, volume 221 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, (2009)