Exploding demand for higher education during the last decade, especially in developing countries, has been accompanied by extraordinary growth in private provision and rising tensions over the entry of foreign institutions into local markets.
The financial crisis that began last year has shaken higher-education systems throughout the nine states in the Northeast, totting budget cuts on public universities and shrinking the endowments of the region's many private colleges.
PRESS statements by higher education minister Blade Nzimande confirm his eagerness to address issues in the public higher education arena. But what about the private education sector?
With a target of 75,000 foreign students registering at private institutions of higher learning by next year, the Higher Education Ministry has been talking with providers on ways to make Malaysia a regional hub of excellence, writes KOH SOO LING.
Presidents of a number of colleges vowed in November to take a pay cut or otherwise give back part of their earnings as a way to help buffer their schools against the struggling economy.
Gujarat government on Friday admitted that the picture of state's higher education is not very rosy, one of the major reasons why it became essential to come up with the Gujarat Private Universities Bill, 2009. Concluding the debate on the Bill, education minister Ramanlal Vora said, the gross enrolment ratio in the age-group 18-23, or higher education, in Gujarat is lower than the national average. "It is 11 per cent in India, while it is 10 per cent in Gujarat", he said.
State Education Minister Ramanlal Vora moved the Gujarat Private Universities Bill, 2009, seeking to set up private universities, in the Legislative Assembly here on Thursday.
The presidents of the nation’s major private research universities were paid a median compensation of $627,750 in the 2007-8 fiscal year — a 5.5 percent increase from the previous year — according to The Chronicle of Higher Education annual executive compensation survey.
The article profiles the private college Interdisciplinary Center, which is located in Israel and attracts donors and scholars from around the world. The center is the country's first private college, and offers competition to Israel's seven publicly financed major universities. The school has developed a stellar reputation among students and scholars because of its commitment to interdisciplinary work and community involvement.
The lower revenue expected by a "significant minority" of such colleges could hurt their future financial strength, says a Moody's Investors Service report.
Workshops: October 10th, 2008Refereed Papers: November 3rd , 2008Tutorials: November 30th, 2008Panels: December 21st, 2008Posters:January 20th , 2009Developers track: February 2nd, 2009
The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), will be held at the University of Geneva on the 17th-19th of June 2009 (view map, slide show of the building).
Agenda
R. Abbasi, M. Grzegorzek, and S. Staab. Semantic Multimedia, volume 5887 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 65--76. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (2009)
S. Abels. Chemie- und Physikdidaktik für die Lehramtsausbildung, page 351--353. Münster, Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik, LIT-Verlag, (2009)
K. Ala-Mutka, M. Bacigalupo, S. Kluzer, C. Pascu, Y. Punie, and C. Redecker. Report on a validation and policy options workshop organised by IPTS Seville, 29-30 October 2008, EUR 23786 EN. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, (2009)