Concealed carry permit owners will now legally be allowed to bring handguns onto UNC-CH’s and other public universities’ campuses, as a new state law goes into effect today.
In North Carolina, the difference between private and public institutions affects how colleges can enforce gun laws. Several days ago, Duke University officials released a statement addressing new gun legislation and fire arm safety on campus, according to the Duke Chronicle.
There are now 19 public and private universities and higher education institutions, with almost 100,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Two universities conduct their courses in English and others teach science courses in English.
In the wake of the rise in number of seats going unclaimed after counselling year after year, some private engineering colleges are mulling conversion into an arts and science institutions.
Entre los aciertos que se le adjudican a la política científico-tecnológica del Gobierno nacional es haberles tendido un pequeño puente a las universidades privadas en el campo de la investigación.
Un documento preparado para el taller “La investigación en las universidades privadas 2013” que se dictó ayer en la Universidad Católica de Córdoba (UCC) revela un exponencial crecimiento cuantitativo de investigadores y becarios de las unidades académicas privadas. Sin embargo, siguen representando apenas el cinco por ciento del total de investigadores del país.
A two-judge bench of the AP High Court on Monday gave its nod to the admissions made in private medical colleges for the present academic year. The bench of Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice D Seshadiri Naidu dismissed a batch of 50 writ petitions primarily on the ground that the writ petitions raised disputed questions of fact but failed to place strong evidence in support of the allegations.
In a significant ruling on Monday, the AP High Court directed that the content and format of applications of all private medical colleges shall be uniform and they shall be made available even at the NTR Health University.
More than half of private colleges that grant bachelor’s degrees and public colleges that grant bachelor’s and master’s degrees had not met their fall enrollment goals by May 1, according to the latest “Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admission Directors.”
With private engineering colleges in the state facing a large number of student vacancies, some of them are resorting to unscrupulous means to fill up seats.
Students at one Michigan college soon won’t need to worry about making student loan payments if they don’t land a well-paying job right after graduation.
Embattled Virginia Intermont College expects to announce merger plans with another institution soon, according to correspondence issued to alumni this week.
With the sticker price on private colleges averaging $45,000 and even the typical public university asking $23,000 a year, families at all income levels need help with tuition bills: A College Board poll last February found that about three-quarters of families earning more than $100,000 were applying for aid for the 2013-14 academic year.
This year's admissions to private medical and dental colleges elicited very few complaints, only 14, as compared to more than 80 last year. While official data show that the admissions to the vacant seats after the second round in these colleges went smoothly, parents say many of their wards could not even attempt to seek admission, with just one day's deadline given to them.
On the first day of October, several new laws took effect in North Carolina, one of the most controversial of which loosened some restrictions on gun owners.
Students of private institutions kept last year’s trend alive by outperforming their counterparts at the public sector colleges when the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the commerce group results on Thursday.
When Toby Alfred was applying to college, her mother told her, “You figure out the best place you can get into and I’ll figure out a way to pay for it.” In retrospect, she says, that was “a tremendous gift.” Neither of her parents were college graduates; her mother was a bookkeeper; her father worked as an office manager and money was tight. Alfred got a scholarship to Carnegie Mellon and took out loans to pay for her MBA from the University of Chicago.
Private colleges in southern Vietnam are demanding very high tuition, which is up to 15 times that collected by public schools, but aren’t necessarily matching the high prices with a quality education.
The results of second-year students of commerce and humanities were announced on Thursday during a ceremony hosted at the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi.
Having accused the BJP government of turning Himachal into Bihar by allowing a large number of private universities and compromising with standards of higher education, the Himachal government on Saturday did a complete U-turn.
The private education market in the Middle East is the fastest growing in the world. With an increasing number of international schools being built, strong population growth and continued economic expansion, the value of the private education market in the GCC has risen to $15 billion. This is according to an IIR Middle East report on ‘Trends in Private Education Investment and Expansion in MENA 2013’.
Application will be open to the graduates of secondary schools or equivalent in the year 2006/2007 and up to the year 2011-2012. The ministry will cover full tuition fees, agreed on with private higher education institutions beginning from the academic year 2013-2014.
A for-profit college chain intentionally deceived prospective students and investors about the value of its degrees and sought out the socially isolated and disadvantaged, according to a lawsuit California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed Thursday.
After several years of startling revelations about its predatory abuses of students, the for-profit college industry faces growing skepticism from the public. Thousands of students across the country have complained that they were deceived by for-profit college recruiters about the cost of programs, the quality of programs, and the value of for-profit degrees in the job market.
More than a year after the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions produced a shocking report on the manipulative and wasteful practices of the nation’s for-profit colleges, Congress has yet to take any meaningful action on the issue.
It's autumn, and a new batch of students are starting university. Some are walking through the ancient gates of an Oxbridge college. Others are joining a redbrick university like Manchester or Bristol. A few may even be arriving in Warwick as I did (only to realise the University of Warwick is actually in Coventry).
According to an analysis by Facebook, of the top 25 colleges where men are most likely to meet their spouse, all are private Christian institutions. For women, more than half (64 percent) of the top 25 colleges where they’re likely to find a husband are religious schools.
There are many things that make Habib University a unique and interesting project, the least of which involves financing of the university and architectural aspects of its campus. In what constitutes "one of the largest" investments in a private university in Pakistan, most of the funding for this university currently comes from House of Habib. But Rizvi says that a good private university needs to be owned by the society, which is why the management plans to raise money from a variety of sources in the private sector.
The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, or APSCU, is the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group for America's for-profit colleges. APSCU has opposed a wide range of reasonable efforts by the Obama administration and members of Congress to hold bad actors in its industry accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse with the roughly $32 billion a year in federal tax dollars they receive.
Graduate student unionization is very much in the news these days, with the National Labor Relations Board expected to rule soon on whether graduate assistants may unionize at private universities.
Grand Canyon University has announced that it will freeze on-campus tuition costs in 2014-15 for the sixth straight year. Tuition for online students also will remain unchanged for the next academic year.
Exim Bank Agriculture University, the country’s first private agriculture university in Chapainawabganj, started its journey yesterday creating new scopes for the students interested in higher education on agriculture.
Asbury University became the first private institution of higher learning in Kentucky to enter the Kentucky Proud Farm to Campus Program in a ceremony yesterday, Oct. 10, in front of the school’s Johnson Cafeteria.
In the 1970s, private universities arrived, hoping to open another door to prospective learners that were stripped of the opportunity due to Taiwan's limited budget for education. But who knew that the problematic bud of private education would be blooming and throttling the nation's future over the next 40 years.
Tuition and fees at private, non- profit U.S. colleges rose 3.6 percent in 2013-2014, the smallest increase in more than 40 years, as families struggle to afford college costs.
State Sen. Robert W. Singer, R-Ocean, has withdrawn his support for a controversial bill that would exempt private nonprofit colleges and universities from local zoning rules.
With ‘surplus’ universities and schools being encouraged to shut down or merge due to Taiwan’s demographic downturn, the government has said that private institutions should not be allowed to profiteer from selling land designated for educational use.
Count Lesley University in Cambridge among the growing class of mid-tier, private colleges feeling the strains from the new financial calculus affecting the entire U.S. higher-education industry.
High tuition, few low-cost options and limited state funding are key contributors to rising college debt among New Hampshire college graduates, higher here than anywhere else in the nation.
Infamous for many irregularities, Nagpur University administration has always tried to suppress controversies. But this time, chancellor K Sankaranarayanan himself has sought clarification from vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal on the NU move to illegally grant benefit to ME/MTech students, who had been admitted by colleges even before they got affiliation last year, NU officials said.
A new program by Ohio Northern University would drastically reduce the school’s sticker price, though it’s unclear how much students would actually save.
Southern Virginia University is the latest among a spate of small private colleges to slash their sticker prices in an effort to be more transparent about costs and to attract new students.
The deadline for private schools and hospitals to relocate from residential areas should be extended, said Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak on Thursday.
Private nonprofit colleges increased tuition by 3.6 percent on average for this academic year, according to a survey from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of its members. It’s the lowest rate of tuition increase increase since at least 1972. And the association found that financial aid budgets have increased more quickly than tuition.
African countries are still too focused on the state sector, and this hinders the private sector from contributing to alleviating poverty in the region, experts said during the IMF/World Bank meetings
It’s been a busy time for the education sector in the Brazilian stock market. In less than a week, two large groups of private universities have filed for initial public offerings, which together could raise as much as R$1.6 billion (US$730 million). But there’s more action than IPOs. This year, three mergers and acquisitions of major education companies also shook up the sector, which is making big bets on online distance learning.
El Ministerio de Educación detectó irregularidades en la investigación administrativa en contra de la Uniacc y la Universidad Pedro de Valdivia, y remitirá los antecedentes al Ministerio Público.