On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's offices sent out a news release that declared, "Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs."
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
“Private universities in Dubai recorded a 12 per cent increase in student enrolment in the last year, part of an 11 per cent increase in higher education enrollment as a whole,” said Dr Abdulla Al Karam, director general of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), in a 2013 report on Dubai’s higher education sector.
The for-profit education industry is becoming a contrarian hotbed after the Department of Education's initial round of rule-making for the industry was not as strict as many investors had anticipated. However, the companies' reliance on Title IV funding is sure to sink them in the long run.
Fewer students are paying the full sticker price at private nonprofit colleges than ever before, with the average freshman getting half of his or her tuition and fees covered by the school, according to a new study released Monday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The number of students committing to private colleges is declining due to tuition spikes. In order to keep their classrooms full, private schools are offering more financial assistance to students.
But in Augusta, it’s the for-profit private schools that are raking in taxpayer dollars, charging a tuition that in some cases is five times higher than the area’s larger public universities and colleges.
The 'Forum for Fairness in Education' has decided to file a contempt case against the state government for violating the apex court's order on private medical and dental college seats. The SC directive states that private medical and dental colleges have to surrender vacant seats to the government after the second round of admission. The government can allot these seats to meritorious candidates.
Private medical colleges in the state have threatened not to undertake fresh admissions unless fee is hiked for the block period 2013-2016 is carried out in a manner that is commensurate with the expenditure they are bearing on each student. Interestingly, the demand comes ahead of the engineering and medical admission exam (Eamcet) is slated to be held on May 10.
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
Faced with a growing number of families struggling to cover college costs, private colleges and universities are dispensing college scholarship awards at record levels.
Northwestern College will start going by a more accurate name this summer, its leaders say. The 110-year-old Christian school will become the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in July.
The result is that poorer families face a chasm between what they can afford and what they are being charged. Nine of 10 private colleges charge students whose families earn $30,000 or less a net price of more than $10,000; three of five charge those students more than $15,000.
A national study singled out the University of Miami for not giving enough financial aid to low-income students while shifting most of its scholarship dollars to high-achieving students with higher family incomes.
A Parliamentary panel has criticised the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its delay in examining whether private universities are functioning in accordance with the UGC Act.
The Ministry of Education is taking measures to close the private, Russian-language university ECOMEN, which it says has provided paid-for diplomas in both Estonia and the Czech Republic.
Private Universities in Kenya receive no funding from the government for running expenses. They rely on tuition fees to meet recurrent and developmental costs.
The minister of Higher Education, Adao do Nascimetno today in Kuito, Bie, hailed the initiative and efforts of institutions that want to boost higher education in the province, as they will contribute to local development.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, exhorted on Saturday in the central Huambo province the private higher education institutions of this region to increase their performance, aiming to promote the quality of scientific and technology training.
Small cap for-profit education stock Career Education Corp. (CECO) has one big advantage over both public and private schools plus it may have made a key reversal on the charts.
According to Private Universities Act 2006, many international-level private colleges are to be set up in Gurgaon, plans for which are in the pipeline and are expected to materialize soon. Land has been allocated in sectors 51 and 68 for setting up of educational institutes.
A few elite institutions at both the grade-school and college levels are doing better than ever. But their health conceals the collapse of private-sector options in the U.S.
Seats in Intermediate colleges are all set to double to 44 lakh in the state with government inviting private institutions to set up new ones at a time when various stakeholders, including the state-run institutes have sought a ban on sanction of new colleges.
Even as the technical and professional education sector in the State is suffering from a crisis of lack of students, Think Tank Odisha, an advocacy group chaired by former Chief Secretary S B Mishra, has called for slashing of seats in the private colleges.
Many private medical colleges have stated that they will not be able to accept NEET-PG results for admissions. Admissions for private medical entrance exam tests may be declared today. A lot of private medical colleges were opposed to the introduction of a single medical entrance test.
In order to safeguard students’ interests, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed private medical colleges and a consortium of colleges across the country to declare the results of entrance examinations they conducted and on that basis make admissions to postgraduate, MBBS and dental courses for 2013-14.
With no clarity on the share of government quota seats for MBA and MCA this year, the Karnataka Private Postgraduate Colleges’ Association (KPPGCA) on Wednesday decided to conduct Karnataka Management Aptitude Test (KMAT) on July 21.
A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms.
Even as increasing number of engineering seats are going vacant every year, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Maharashtra government have given a nod to many private colleges to increase their intake capacity. About 800 seats will be added to colleges under Nagpur University this academic year, though around 7,000 seats were left vacant in the last academic year.
The NSW Teachers Federation and Unions NSW on Friday launched their Stop Tafe Cuts campaign, claiming plans to increase competition between public and private training providers for funds would see the deterioration of quality education.
The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll students in vocation-oriented classes tied to the local job market. Enrollments at those institutions fell 8.7% and 3.6% respectively.
In recent years, merit-based scholarships have surpassed those awarded based on financial need at both public and private colleges, according to a report released last week by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute.
In Tennessee, Berry College says, if you try to put up a billboard, you will be treated as if you were operating a college in the state. The college sued the Tennessee Higher Education Commission on Monday, charging it with illegal discrimination against out-of-state institutions and infringement on interstate commerce.
The race for that coveted post-graduate medical seat in Karnataka just got tougher. Two years ago, a PG seat in orthopedics in a prestigious private medical college in Bangalore cost Rs 1 crore. This year, it has touched Rs 2 crore. The price of an MD (Radiology) seat available for Rs 2 crore last year is likely to go up to Rs 2.75 crore this year.
The President of the Central University College and the newly elected Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Private Universities in Ghana, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has emphasised the significance of private universities in national development.
Another private university in Meghalaya, the Mahatma Gandhi University, is under the scanner of the state government after complaints were received about its functioning, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said today.
In a keen desire to make Uttarakhand an education hub and thereby allowing the mushrooming of private Universities, by giving them permission to open their campuses, the successive state governments have inadvertently made Dehra Dun, where most of these Universities are located a drug and booze capital.
A private Indian university has been barred from recruiting Ghanaian students for its distance learning programmes since it is not accredited in this country. The university is under a cloud back home with a federal probe likely into its affairs - particularly the awarding of an extraordinarily high number of degrees - and its chancellor-promoter is on the run.
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a list of private universities not recognised by HEC, warning students and their parents to ensure the status of the university or institute from the website of the commission before seeking admission.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has set up a Liaison Committee to monitor and coordinate activities of its affiliate private universities to help maintain high academic standards, the Vice Chancellor, Professor William Otoo Ellis, has announced.
Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary has directed the state government to probe the private Mahatma Gandhi University after complaints were received about its functioning.
According to recent surveys by the Chronicle of Higher Education, 35 private university presidents and 4 public university presidents topped $1 million in total earnings during the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Armenia’s Ministry of Education and Science is to inspect the private universities starting from the next week. The inspection is to check whether the universities comply with new law “On licensing”, Minister Armen Ashotyan said Wednesday.
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.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, last Wednesday in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, said that in some local private higher education institutions there are serious concerns about their functioning and organisation, which need to be dealt with in due time.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, on Wednesday in Lubango City, Huila Province, said that infrastructures related to private higher education institutions must be adjusted to the functioning of the public ones, aimed for a quality academic training.
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 fee structure for new private colleges offering technical courses has been finalized by the state government's fee regulatory committee (technical). The ad hoc fee for degree engineering course in these colleges has been fixed at Rs 49,000 per annum. However, this fee structure is ad-hoc and subject to revision next year, when it will be regularized.
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.
This was decided in a meeting held with the private educational institutions on Friday by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Minister for Higher Education R V Deshpande, Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil and education department officials.
The Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Education have approved the 5- percent to 10-percent increase in the tuition of 260 private elementary and high schools across the country and 343 of the 451 private colleges and universities.
The bill repeals the “adverse impact” law, which gives for-profit colleges the ability to prevent community colleges from offering courses that are too similar to their own offerings.
In an effort to downsize the number of higher-learning institutions in the nation, the Education Minister Chiang Wei-ling yesterday unveiled a plan to merge or repurpose 12 public and private colleges by August in 2014.
The current debate in Congress about hiking the student loan interest rates has once again raised questions for America's families about the affordability of higher education. Families' concerns are real--an investment in higher education is one of the largest commitments they will make for their children's future. And private higher education, in particular, is often singled out as being too costly--and presumably out of reach--for most.
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 meeting with the government and the private college management could not come to a conclusion on the seat matrix or the fee structure of professional courses in the state this year.
Twenty-seven students who took admission in various private engineering colleges directly after Odisha joint entrance examination (OJEE) counseling was over last year stand to lose their seats. The government has decided to withdraw their admission rights and not allow them to appear the semester examinations of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) beginning from Saturday.
The Supreme court which finally declared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG final verdict after a lot of postponement has cleared the admissions for Medical/ Dental courses across the country.
Eight medial colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association will charge Rs.1.65 lakh for 30 per cent of the merit seats in each institution. Last year this fee was Rs.1.5 lakh.
Government colleges in Mysore are in demand this admission season. Hundreds of student from city and rural areas are opting for government colleges even though there are enough private colleges.
With just eight days to go for the completion of admissions for postgraduate medical courses in the State, the government seems to be in two minds on its consensual agreement with the private unaided educational institutions for admissions this year.
Here’s some good news for students hoping to pursue courses in veterinary science. The third veterinary college in the state and the first run by a private management is slated to come up in Thiruvananthapuram district, the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) said on Monday.
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.
Minister for higher education RV Deshpande on Sunday said his government would review the decision taken by the previous government granting permission to start universities by private institutes and individuals.
The agenda of the session also includes discussion on developing the programmes of higher education institutions, particularly the criteria governing licences for the opening of private higher education institutions and tie-up with academic institutions abroad. Shaikh Khalid bin Hilal al Maawali, Chairman of Majlis Ash’shura, encouraged the members to engage in objective discussion with the minister to highlight areas of challenge and help promote the government’s efforts to develop the higher education sector.
HEC has identified eight private universities/institutes which have been granted charter by the respective authorities without fulfilling the cabinet criteria for establishment of new university/degree awarding institute including NOC from HEC.
The Private Universities Bill passed during the last session of the previous Assembly could hit a roadblock with Higher Education Minister R V Deshpande stating that it was a policy matter and the Cabinet would discuss its pros and cons.
Doaba region of the state seems to be soon developing as an hub of private universities in the name of quality higher education. Two private universities Lovely Professional University situated on Jalandhar-Phagwara highway (NH-1) and the coming up DAV University located on Jalandhar-Pathankot National Highway had already made their presence in the region to serve the people with higher education. Now the third player was ready to enter the list of private universities. The University named as Sant Baba Bhag Singh University is likely to come with in a year as claimed by Dr. HS Sagar, Director General of the Sant Bhag Singh Education Society.
CMJ University in Meghalaya, which is under the scanner for awarding over 430 Ph.D. degrees in the last academic year, could be dissolved for irregularities, with Governor R. S. Mooshahary pulling up the varsity for violating UGC norms.
Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande on Wednesday said that he would strive to get one world-class university and Indian Institute of Technology at Raichur and Dharwad with help from the Union government but remained noncommittal on what stand the Congress government would take on private universities sanctioned by the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
Beginning in the 1970s, Apollo Group, Inc. founder, John Sperling, pioneered an unprecedented growth of the for-profit education industry in the United States, from a sleepy group of privately owned trade schools, to today's more behemoth publicly traded operators.
With a year at a private college now approaching $60,000, with the student debt of Americans having recently crossed the $1 trillion threshold, economists are increasingly describing student debt as the next housing bubble.
Among many significant findings presented in a recent report from The Century Foundation Task Force on Community Colleges, there was one that truly surprised me: the difference between the average amount per full-time student of private gifts, investments and endowments given to private colleges ($46,432) and that which is given to community colleges ($372). The Task Force, of which I was a member, has called for radical innovations to help redesign and bolster community colleges, and also for the provision of necessary funding to bring about improved outcomes. There are many worthy and important policy recommendations in this report that I hope the educational, political and philanthropic communities will take to heart.
Davis, then a senior at Liberty High School, knew — because her middle-class parents had said so, many times — that she needed a lot of financial help. She applied for 68 scholarships. She got three.
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
Alumni of the Thunderbird School of Global Management are protesting plans for the nonprofit business school to create a joint venture with for-profit Laureate Education.
Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, urged the Department of Education today to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges at a field hearing held in San Francisco by the federal agency to explore topics for future rulemaking.
The U.S. Department of Education is now engaged in a series of public hearings on higher education issues, including reforms to curb the abuses of predatory for-profit colleges. It is also accepting written comments from the public.
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.
The state government will study the need of the 13 private colleges before proper assistance are given to support the colleges in enhancing the state's higher learning education sector.
Nine private colleges in Eastern Visayas region were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) to increase their school fees for school year 2013-2014.
The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll students in vocation-oriented classes tied to the local job market. Enrollments at those institutions fell 8.7 percent and 3.6 percent respectively.
Adamson University topped the list of the 354 private schools which posted the highest increase in tuition at P131.19 per unit followed by Ateneo de Manila University at P118.25, Miriam College Foundation, P117.15, Dela Salle University, P106.20 and University of Sto. Tomas, P71.16, among others, that were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education.