On Friday, prosecutors in Miami charged the politically-connected CEO of for-profit Dade Medical College, Ernesto Perez, with the felony charge of providing false information through a sworn statement, plus two misdemeanor counts of perjury.
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.
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.
Ernesto Perez has resigned as president and chief executive officer of Dade Medical College, a for-profit institution in Florida, less than a week after prosecutors charged him with perjury and providing false information through a sworn statement, according to reports by The Miami Herald and the South Florida Business Journal.
Challenging medical admissions under management quota, two writ petitions have been filed at the Madurai bench of the Madras high court against top government authorities and four private medical colleges.
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
Aggressive recruiters, toll-free numbers and late-night TV commercials mark some of the tactics used by fraudulent for-profit schools that Attorney General Martha Coakley said her office is investigating.
In an era of private universities, those of the 61,000 left stranded, whose parents can afford it, would be admitted into private universities or sent abroad. Let say 10,000. And another 10,000 would find their way into the polytechnic system and other state tertiary institutions.
La Comisión de Educación del Congreso recibió facultades de comisión investigadora del Pleno para indagar los altos sueldos que percibirían las principales autoridades y titulares de cargos directivos y de confianza en la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
Of the 42 universities in the state, 34 are state universities, three central and five deemed. Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema have 10 state universities each, while Telangana has 14. Besides, there are 700 private engineering colleges spread across the state.
The Anglican University College of Technology (ANGUTECH) has inaugurated its premier campus at Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region to mark its operations. Inaugurating the campus at Nkoranza last Friday, the Archbishop of Internal Province of the Anglican Church of Ghana, Most Reverend (Rev.) Dr Daniel Yinkah Sarfo, called on the government to compliment the efforts of private universities by supporting them with infrastructural facilities and other necessary incentives as are being enjoyed by public tertiary institutions.
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.
Apollo Group Inc. (APOL), the largest U.S. for-profit college chain, posted fourth-quarter profit and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates even as enrollment fell.
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.
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.
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.
Here's a question for India's education-obsessed middle class and upper middle class parents: Would you send your son or daughter to a well-funded, well-appointed, classy private university backed by some of India's best names in business and academia but one that offers a liberal arts education?
California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris filed a lawsuit Thursday against Corinthian Colleges Inc. and its subsidiaries, accusing the company of false and predatory advertising, securities fraud and intentional misrepresentations to students.
Las instituciones privadas de educación superior en Puerto Rico aumentaron sus cargos de matrícula para absolver los costos del impuesto de ventas y uso que ahora les aplica y el impacto de gastos operacionales como los servicios de electricidad y agua. Así salió a relucir en un reportaje publicado por el portal de noticias Noticel.
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.
Para algunos bachilleres superar el proceso de admisión basta para ingresar en una universidad privada. Para otros, cubrir el precio de las matrículas se convierte en el gran obstáculo. El costo de la educación superior nubla las esperanzas de cursar una carrera pero, en las grandes universidades privadas de la ciudad, hay alternativas de apoyo económico para estudiantes.
An ordinance regulating private and vocational training schools and colleges not connected to a school or college district will take effect in 30 days following final approval Monday on a 4-0 vote with Councilman Ron Schnablegger absent because of illness.
Adjunct faculty members at Bentley University have voted, 100 to 98, against forming a union, dealing an early setback to an effort by the Service Employees International Union to organize adjunct instructors throughout the Boston metropolitan area.
Washington and Who? If you don’t hail from the South, you may be unfamiliar with Washington and Lee University. But this pint-size liberal arts college is making a name for itself as an outsize undergraduate value. Number one for the first time on Kiplinger’s liberal arts list, it has been flirting with first place for several years, landing in our top ten consistently since 2007
Embattled Virginia Intermont College expects to announce merger plans with another institution soon, according to correspondence issued to alumni this week.
Australia's largest TAFE system is under threat in Victoria after state government cuts to the state's colleges last year, and increasing competition from the more numerous private vocational education colleges that have sprung up in recent times.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued Corinthian Colleges Inc., the parent company of a chain of career-preparation colleges, in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday for alleged false advertising and marketing about its job placement rates.
For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has retained the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Harvard University and the University of Oxford tied for second place, while Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.
Haber dado marcha atrás al incremento del Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) en las colegiaturas permitirá el crecimiento en la cobertura de la educación privada, afirmó Miguel Angel Valdez García, rector de la Universidad La Salle.
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.
La disputa legal entre la CCSS y las universidades privadas por el uso y cobro de los campos clínicos para los estudiantes de último año de Medicina, tuvo un nuevo capítulo hace dos semanas; esta vez, a favor de la entidad pública.
Students got an eye-opening look at the for-profit college system and its impact on higher education Wednesday as they filled the Kurland Lecture Hall of the Valley Performing Arts Center to see “For Profit.” The film was presented for the inaugural Campus Equity Week at CSUN.
Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee. He also is a living symbol of the Republican Party's shameful loyalty to big for-profit colleges that have added to the corruption of U.S. politics, systematically ripped off taxpayers, and ruined the futures of countless students.
Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human-rights activist who had a public fight with New York University this past summer that raised questions about the influence of China on American higher education, has found a new home in academe. Mr. Chen will be a visiting fellow here at Catholic University of America, and will also be affiliated with a conservative think tank and a human-rights group started by a Democratic congressman.
El acta de la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación deja constancia de las razones por las cuales la UDLA no logró la acreditación. Señala que no tiene capacidad para sustentar su proyecto educativo, el que califica de “poco orientador”. También cuestiona el número de docentes y habla de bajas tasas de titulación.
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.”
Tuition at most of Long Island's public and private colleges rose higher in the last year than the national averages for comparable institutions in a pricing survey released Wednesday by the College Board.
For thousands of degree-hungry students, the advertisement on the billboard is irresistible. The Regional Engineering Institute Bhubaneswar dangles a much-coveted engineering degree. And the Institute of Aviation and Technology offers a tempting certificate in flying.
Even though colleges have slowed the rate at which they raise tuition, the total grant aid available to students has not been able to keep pace with tuition growth, according to two reports released Wednesday by the College Board.
The report summarizes the results of efforts of 50 private colleges, funded by grants totaling more than $5 million from the Walmart Foundation, to enhance services for first-generation students.
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.
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.
La ministra de Educación, Carolina Schmidt, aseguró que pronto se entregarán los resultados de la investigación sobre lucro en las universidades Pedro de Valdivia y Uniacc, pese a un notable retraso respecto de las primeras afirmaciones de la autoridad en la materia. Estudiantes de la educación superior privada llaman a cautelar por el futuro de los alumnos ante eventuales resoluciones.