With the Himachal Pradesh High Court last week quashing the State Private Educational Institutions (Regulatory) Act of 2010, the state now lacks a mechanism to monitor its 16 private universities and an equal number of private institutes, mainly engineering colleges, officials said on Friday.
The commission to regulate the private educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh now is invalid and so are its assessment orders, circulars, and notices.
Every year, price increases at private colleges prompt a round of appalled responses and calls for corrective action. But even as some sticker prices approach $60,000 a year, the amount that students actually pay — because of increased discounts, grants and tax benefits — has barely changed over the last decade, according to a major analysis of college costs published this week.
Lesley University is changing its undergraduate tuition pricing model. The objective is to reduce the tuition price and tuition discounting so that more people see the actual cost of attending Lesley.
Part-time faculty at several Boston-area colleges, frustrated by low pay and emboldened by their growing ranks, are taking steps to unionize amid an emerging national movement to give adjunct professors the chance to negotiate better working conditions and benefits.
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.
Durante el año 2012 el sistema de educación superior en Chile obtuvo ingresos por $3.115.145 millones, es decir, más que las subvenciones que se entregaron a todos los colegios del país ($2.992.000 millones) en ese periodo.
La expansión de la educación privada, especialmente en el nivel superior, es responsabilidad de las autoridades y funcionarios, pues han brindado demasiadas facilidades para su instalación, indicó el investigador Uriel Soto Barrera.
El presidente de la Federación de Instituciones Privadas de Educación Superior (Fipes) afirmó que, de aprobarse, la norma aumentaría las trabas burocráticas. Congresista Daniel Mora niega esta acusación
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.
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.
As we move from a federal budget crisis towards a federal debt crisis, ways to reign in student debt will almost certainly be on the table. The US government spends about $5.5 billion subsidizing student loans each year, depending on who you ask. It's a rather elusive figure. Student debt, more so than other forms of debt, is particularly complicated for many reasons.
Félix Tapia, integrante de su Comisión de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la Unidad Técnica, dijo que en paralelo las universidades privadas han sido ignoradas y sus autoridades descalificadas por opinar sobre la crisis en el sector universitario.
La diputada del Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), Carmen Granados, pidió, ayer, a la Contraloría General de la República (CGR) investigar supuestas irregularidades en el otorgamiento de permisos para universidades privadas.
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.
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?
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.
La carrera emprendida por tres universidades privadas para implantarse en Málaga tiene por el momento un claro ganador: la Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM). Frente a las todavía intenciones de la Católica de Murcia y la Loyola Andalucía para abrir campus en la capital, la UEM ya tiene avanzados los trámites para ello ante la Junta de Andalucía hasta el punto de que, según pudo conocer este periódico, ya se han resuelto los reparos que inicialmente puso la Administración regional al proyecto presentado para abrir en Málaga la que sería la Universidad Europea de Andalucía.
Los precios de matrícula en la universidad pública madrileña han aumentado siete veces más que los de la privada, según un estudio de la Federación de Usuarios Consumidores Independientes (FUCI) de la Comunidad.
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.
Competition for students among private universities in Kenya is intensifying, with institutions taking to both the electronic and print media to advertise programmes and display achievements. The private higher education sector is thriving, and now enrols 20% of all students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
With thousands of seats in private engineering colleges lying vacant in recent years, some colleges are mulling the option of converting the technical institution into an arts and science institution, as there is a rise in the enrolment in arts and science courses.
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 for-profit college industry is under pressure. Many of its biggest companies are being investigated by federal agencies and state attorneys general for fraud and misrepresentation -- deceiving students, regulators, and investors about job placement rates, costs and quality of programs, transferability of credits, and other matters. Enrollments are down, and share prices have been falling.
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.
La candidata presidencial de la Alianza, Evelyn Matthei, anunció este sábado que, de llegar a la Presidencia, no permitirá el lucro en las universidades.
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.
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.
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.
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.
State higher and technical education minister Rajesh Tope on Friday said private engineering colleges should reduce their student intake so there would be no vacant seats.
Every year, price increases at private colleges prompt a round of appalled responses and calls for corrective action. But even as some sticker prices approach $60,000 a year, the amount that students actually pay — because of increased discounts, grants and tax benefits — has barely changed over the last decade, according to a major analysis of college costs published this week.
The Bangladesh Private Medical College Association has asked the health ministry to increase the quota for foreign students to 40% from the existing 25% for the current academic year (2013-2014).
Wake Forest University was one of four North Carolina schools recognized as best values among private universities and liberal arts colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, the magazine said Friday.
“Desde hace algunos años atrás, venimos trabajando en las universidades privadas porque en algunos casos los docentes cobran un salario significativamente inferior al de sus pares de la universidad pública y, en muchos casos, hay personal no registrado”, dijeron Mónica Carrizo y Edgardo Blangetti.
Como parte de las propuestas de campaña, el Partido Frente Amplio (FA) manifestó la semana pasada durante el debate organizado por la Universidad Nacional, la necesidad de regular “el aumento y cobro abusivo de las tarifas de las universidades privadas”.
Mañana, las facultades de Derecho de las universidades privadas elegirán a su representante ante el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE) por los siguientes cuatro años.
While the federal government is still in the process of developing a plan to require greater accountability from for-profit colleges, Capella is giving students a new way to judge their employable skills progress.
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.
The President of the Ghana Baptist University College (GBUC), Rev. Dr Kojo Osei-Wusuh, has called on the government to seriously review the imposition of taxes on private universities to save some of the institutions from collapse.
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).
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.
Embattled Virginia Intermont College expects to announce merger plans with another institution soon, according to correspondence issued to alumni this week.
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.
True to its status as an education hub, three colleges from the city figure in the list of colleges identified by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) to be accorded the power to grant degrees, a privilege that is hitherto reserved for the universities. The 45-college list has 11 from the state.
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.
While the Internet is full of scams and misinformation, the evolution of the online for-profit college is becoming one of the more serious as gullible students are lured into the system with unfounded claims and promises.
The motivating factor behind private companies venturing into online education is not to expand access to colleges and universities or reduce costs for schools and students, but rather a desire to make money. That's according to a report released by a national group of faculty leaders on Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A for-profit university misleads students about its accreditations, credit transfers, and the jobs and salaries they can expect upon graduation, a class claims.
The Obama administration is toughening its regulation of for-profit colleges in numerous straightforward ways, most notably and publicly by taking another shot (after a federal judge blocked the last one) at drafting rules requiring vocational programs to prove that they are preparing students for "gainful employment."
De aprobarse el Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) a las colegiaturas en escuelas privadas, se prevé la migración de alrededor de un 16 por ciento del total de la matrícula de nivel superior, advirtió Miguel Ángel Valdez García, rector de la Universidad La Salle.
"Se engaña al país cuando se dice que gastamos tanto o más en educación superior y en realidad lo que estamos haciendo es comprar una cartera con un sobreprecio enorme para pagar los intereses que cobran los bancos por el llamado crédito Cae que dejo de ser un crédito con aval del Estado para transformarse en un subsidio directo que se hace con recursos públicos a una oferta privada desregulada".
Laureate Education is big. Like 800,000 students attending 78 institutions in 30 countries big. Yet the privately held for-profit university system has largely remained out of the public eye.
Trustees at two Roman Catholic colleges in Western New York want to look at each other’s books in what may be the first step toward a new and expansive partnership, if not necessarily a merger.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University of the Pacific has received an estimated $125 million from the estate of the late Robert and Jeannette Powell, the largest gift in the university’s 162-year history and among the biggest single bequests to any institution of higher education in the United States.
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.
One of the types of institutions that has encountered public scrutiny in recent years is the for-profit higher education business model. These schools provide certificate and degree programs, with the majority of their student body often enrolled in associate’s degree programs.
El proceso abierto por el Consell para deshacerse de la Valencian International University (VIU), que ha gastado 30 millones desde su creación, está a un paso del fin con la adjudicación a Planeta del 70% de la universidad a cambio de cuatro millones de euros. Es la única propuesta recibida para este proceso de externalización.
The TN Private Colleges (Regulation) Act does not contemplate prior permission from the government for filling up faculty vacancies, so aided colleges need not obtain them, the Madras High Court has ruled.
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.
Aided colleges in Tamil Nadu need not obtain prior permission from the government to fill vacant teaching/non-teaching posts which had already sanctioned for the academic year concerned, the Madras high court has ruled.
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 rector de la Universidad Pedro de Valdivia (UPV), Aldo Biagini, sostuvo que están "confiados" ante el inminente término de la investigación administrativa que realiza el Ministerio de Educación a ese plantel por presuntas irregularidades.
Según el Ministerio de Educación, en marzo de este año debieron haber estado listos los informes de las investigaciones administrativas que el Mineduc realizó a la UPV y la Uniacc, dos de las universidades cuestionadas por lucro.
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.
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