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.
Facing a shrinking pool of young people because of the declining birthrate, four top private colleges in western Japan are setting up offices abroad to lure bright foreign students, utilizing attractions such as nanotechnology and geisha in Kyoto.
An informal survey of Fitch Ratings' private college and university portfolio was undertaken in mid August in order to get an early indication on fall 2013 enrollment and fiscal 2014 operations. Overall, the responses paint a largely stable picture. However, these individual metrics in isolation may not depict the whole credit picture but can provide an early indicator of credit stress.
The parent company of the University of Phoenix announced Tuesday that it is laying off 500 workers around the country as it faces declining enrollment and transitions to more online-only courses.
A 34,000-student university in Chile affiliated with Laureate Education, Inc. has received notification from the National Accreditation Commission that its institutional accreditation will not be renewed at the end of its current three-year term. The Universidad de las Américas plans to appeal the decision, which -- if it stands – would mean that new students would be ineligible for government loans or grants.
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.
Andhra Pradesh, which basked in the glory of being a leading educational hub, is now staring at the problem of plenty as the professional colleges mushroomed in the state have registered poor response.
Some of the private medical and dental colleges in the country are allegedly making millions of takas illegally by admitting local students in seats reserved for foreign students.
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.
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.