The issue is sparking sharp debate, notably at George Washington University’s Foggy Bottom campus, where residents are increasingly clashing with student neighbors over late-night parties and other quality-of-life issues, and where school police were admonished for improperly patrolling off private grounds.
Private universities in state will invite trouble for themselves for affiliating colleges. In the wake of escalating number of complaints regarding affiliation/ franchise centres being distributed freely, University Grants Commission has yet again warned private universities not to flout the norms or face the music as per the private universities regulation, 2003. The commission, citing regulations, has said that private universities being unitary in nature cannot affiliate any college or institute for conducting courses leading to award of its diplomas, degree or other qualifications.
Las universidades de Cornell, Princeton y Dartmouth están entre las 11 instituciones privadas que se ha unido a la iniciativa 'Say Yes to Education' (Di Sí a la educación) que ofrece a estudiantes de secundaria un camino para cursar educación superior sin pagar matriculas.
Eighty students from Kashmiri families, who took admission in a Fatehgarh Sahib-based engineering college under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme, have alleged that the college duped them and left them in a situation where they cannot even seek admission in another college.
The number of students choosing private tertiary and vocational education over public has more than doubled in the past five years as students seek out specialised skills and a more personal service to get them into jobs.
Many low-tier and private Vietnamese universities have recruited students via a lax selection process, raising concerns over the quality of future doctors and pharmacists, reports Tuoi Tre.
Teaching in private colleges throughout the country was affected on Friday as thousands of teachers were on mass casual leave and participated in a rally held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
In recent weeks, President Obama has weighed in on the important subject of higher education. Much of the conversation has focused on the cost of a college education and the very real challenges of student debt looming over more and more young Americans. As this conversation continues, we must also seriously discuss expectations related to student learning and the value of a college education.
Medical and dental college aspirants are worried about losing out on seats despite being meritorious. A schedule for admissions to private medical and dental colleges to fill seats that are vacant after the second round gives students only one day to attend counselling, confirm seats and pay tuition fees.
Las universidades no son organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), deben estar comprometidas con un servicio socialmente responsable, en el desarrollo de una sociedad del conocimiento, con compromiso ético y moral, dijo la presidenta de la Asociación Paraguaya de Universidades Privadas (APUP), doctora Sanie Romero de Velázquez, en el marco del III Foro que dicha entidad organizó ayer en el hotel Excelsior
Has the rising cost of college reached a tipping point? Perhaps not, said three panelists at the National Association of College Admissions Counselors’ annual conference in here last week. They offered their analysis at a meeting where many private college officials were very worried their sticker prices are scaring away would-be students.
All the private educational institutions will be closed for a week from Monday across the state, as per the decision taken by Samaikyandhra JAC, to intensify the agitation.
Vice-Chancellors of private universities have expressed great concern and sympathy for Nigerian students whose careers are currently being threatened by the face-off between the Federal government and ASUU which has kept them at home for over three months, noting that there is an urgent need to end the ongoing strike for the good of the nation.
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Howard University’s credit rating Tuesday, citing a loss of patient revenue and volume at its hospital, cuts in federal funding and other challenges facing the historically black university.
The Education Council yesterday decided to stop issuing licences for new private universities and colleges for a period of three years, extendable, to enable the government authorities concerned to assess the current status of private higher education institutions and propose appropriate mechanisms for investment therein.
Harvard University announced Saturday that it has launched a campaign to raise $6.5 billion by 2018 -- a record goal for higher education -- and plans to use the money to expand the campus in Allston, enhance engineering programs, and renovate aging undergraduate houses.
For those of you who are not familiar with Corinthian Colleges (COCO), it's a for-profit company that provides post-secondary education services. It's most well known brand is Everest Colleges, but it has other institutions such as WyoTech and Heald College.
Add one more strain to the finances of US universities: a decline in enrolment. Last week the US Census reported that college enrolment declined for the first time in six years in the autumn of 2012. That, in turn, threatens higher education revenue, said Moody's Investors Service, reports Reuters.
Maharashtra Government is mulling setting up of a special recruitment board on lines of MPSC and UPSC for the appointment of lecturers and staff to private colleges, minister for Higher and Technical Education Rajesh Tope has said.
Agiliance®, Inc., the leading independent provider of Integrated Risk Management solutions for Governance and Security programs, today announced that one of the nation’s top private universities has deployed Agiliance RiskVision™ to manage its governance and security risk processes. The university is using Agiliance’s software platform to manage all risk artifacts in a centralized and automated fashion, which allows the institution’s compliance and risk services team to take a pro-active rather than reactive approach to security management.
Out of the 60 Private Universities in Ghana, only one of them has the Presidential Charter to award its own degrees and certificates, Professor Kwesi Yankah, President of Central University College, has disclosed.
Some years ago, there was a survey conducted by a couple of national nonprofit leadership organizations to ascertain the “core values of the nonprofit sector.” How do the ever-rising salaries of private university presidents—while faculty salaries stagnate and tuition costs to students skyrocket—reflect the core values of the nonprofit sector? Jaeah Lee and Maggie Severns writing for Mother Jones note that a number of private universities—and, to be fair, public universities as well—are providing pay and perks to university presidents that are kind of mind-boggling.
The Madonna University Alumni Association has urged the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to soft-pedal on its threat to massively clamp down on private universities in the country as a result of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union, (ASUU).
Nigerian university students have united under the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and have protested in the streets of Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State’s capital, demanding that the federal government yield to the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
University students in Sri Lanka have commenced an agitation campaign against the government's move to introduce a bill to legalize private universities.
The Gujarat industries department signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with private enterprises today to set up five centres of excellence in three universities and two industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state, a statement issued by the Gujarat state government said.
Ante el reinicio del debate en la Comisión de Educación del Congreso sobre la controvertida nueva Ley Universitaria, el rector de la Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (UPAO) de Trujillo, Víctor Lozano Ibáñez, propuso a ese grupo de trabajo convocar a las casas superiores de estudio y a la comunidad en su conjunto a fin de elaborar una norma consensuada y no impuesta.
La Comisión de Educación y Salud de la Cámara de Diputados normará los cobros excesivos que realizan las universidades privadas, en el área de salud, para la habilitación de examen de grado a estudiantes de esas casas de estudio y exigirá al Ministerio de Salud las explicaciones sobre estas irregularidades.
El ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, José Ignacio Wert, ha asegurado durante la sesión de control al Gobierno en el Congreso, que su política haya mermado el número de estudiantes universitarios el curso pasado y ha afirmado que esta "ligera" reducción se ha dado en la privada y no en la pública.
The regulation of for-profit higher education is a hot topic once again, thanks in part to a second round of negotiations over gainful employment rules, which begin today,
Grand Canyon University was bustling with activity on the second day of classes last week, with an on-campus student population now approaching 8,500, new dormitories and an athletic program ready to launch its first year in NCAA Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
At least seven new private universities with reported links to the ruling party are awaiting approval as the present government nears the end of its term, despite claims that most of the existing higher education institutions in the private sector are underperforming and struggling to attract students.
Education firms Anhanguera Educacional Participacoes SA and Kroton Educacional SA were added to Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa stock index for the period between Sept. 2 of this year and Jan. 3, 2014, exchange operator BM&FBovespa said on Monday.
A Division Bench of the AP High Court comprising Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu on Monday felt that the admissions into management quota seats in private medical colleges in the State had to be streamlined and some more safeguards need to be put in place to protect the interest of the students.
About two-thirds of America’s top 150 private colleges and universities with the highest endowments per student are not need-blind in admissions, and already reject talented low-income applicants because of students’ financial need.
Las autoridades mexicanas deben exigir a las universidades privadas adecuar sus planes de educación, como parte de la reforma educativa, a fin de garantizar que sus egresados compitan realmente en el mercado laboral, afirmó hoy el académico y jurista Teófilo Benítez.
Teaching faculty of private colleges, including engineering institutions drew flak from educationists for staying focused on infrastructure and rather than good teaching staff. As a result, even talented students from private institutions suffer on account of poor placements.
El ministro del Poder Popular para la Educación Universitaria, Pedro Calzadilla, denunció que hay universidades privadas que no están avaladas por el Estado venezolano para su funcionamiento y que estarían haciendo ofertas engañosas a los estudiantes.
Cornell University, Princeton University and Dartmouth College are among 11 private schools that have joined the Say Yes to Education program best known for providing high school students a tuition-free path to college.
One is a world-renowned American university. The other is a technical college in a Buckinghamshire town known for having lots of roundabouts. But now a cross-Atlantic David versus Goliath fight that pits Harvard University in Massachusetts against Havard School in Milton Keynes is being waged at the High Court in London, writes Sam Masters for The Independent.
On the first day of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities annual convention, a storm worked its way towards the convention center. More than a thousand people milled inside Rosen Shingle Creek, one of the golf resort/convention centers that are endemic to central Florida. The attendees had come for the annual congress of for-profit colleges, hosted by the sector’s trade association and central lobbyist. Its theme: “Opportunity for all.”
For-profit colleges will join talks today in Washington as they try to soften an Education Department proposal that sets limits on student debt levels.
A new tool released this week by Wellesley College promises to be a game-changer in the higher education marketplace by bringing clarity to the college-shopping process. It also has the potential to attract more people to college.
London Metropolitan University lost £2 million after a partnership with a private college collapsed, it has emerged, and as recently as last month was seeking more than £750,000 in a continuing dispute with the institution.
Private universities in Ghana have appealed to government to restore the tax exempt status due them to enable them fully discharge their responsibilities to the people.
From my story today: “As the Education Department gathers a panel to rewrite controversial for-profit college regulations, the motto might as well be 'the more things change, the more they stay the same.'
For-profit colleges enjoy the fruits of a business model to die for. It's not a new model. In fact, it's very similar to the one employed by subprime mortgage purveyors Washington Mutual and Countrywide Financial that helped put the entire global financial system at risk, pitching the U.S. into the worst financial panic since the Depression. As we confront a national student loan debt now over $1 trillion and counting, that holds back their "normal" investment in first-time housing, cars and the like, it would be wise to look closely at those similarities and see what we can do about them before its too late (again).
At least seven new private universities in Bangladesh with reported links to the ruling party are awaiting approval as the government nears the end of its term, despite claims that most existing higher education institutions in the private sector are underperforming and struggling to attract students, writes Mushfique Wadud for the Dhaka Tribune.
Despite growing by leaps and bounds in the past 10 years and expanding higher education access to thousands of needy learners, private universities in Kenya continue to shun science, technology, engineering and mathematics – STEM – courses, leaving the heavy financial and infrastructural burdens of these subjects to poorly funded public institutions.
A spate of small private liberal arts colleges are dramatically slashing their sticker prices in an effort to, they say, tell the truth about the real cost of college, help families and attract new students.
Hawai‘i Pacific University climbed 10 places in the top Regional Universities in the West in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2014,” released today. That comes on the heels of a six-place jump in last year’s ranking, school officials noted.
Asia’s premier monthly magazine on ICT in Education-Digital Learning has ranked Lovely Professional University as top private university in overall ranking with 441.74 scores.
The Entrepreneurship Training Institute (ETI) has held its fourth Congregation ceremony in Accra with a call on private universities to invest more in the development of the competence of their staff to ensure quality education.
Tuition increases are constantly in the news these days. Private colleges have become incredibly expensive (as I know personally, with a daughter currently attending one). Public colleges also have been raising tuition sharply in many cases, mostly to offset cuts in the funds they receive from state budgets. Yet, by the standards of the economic marketplace most colleges are still underpriced.
The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges has directed the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) to cancel all admissions given from outside the qualified rank list of 408 candidates from the entrance examination that was held earlier this year.
The education ministry is actively considering a suggestion of a parliamentary watchdog to make MPs the heads of the public schools and colleges as they are now chairing the governing bodies of non-government secondary schools and colleges in their constituencies.
The college administration in response said that they were only following Supreme Court’s orders in not revealing the number of seats. Gandhi Medical College is a private medical college affiliated under the ‘autonomous body’, Barkatullah University, Bhopal.
El rector de la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA), Juan Manuel Suárez Japón, abogón ayer, en la inauguración de los cursos de verano de la sede de la Cartuja de Sevilla, por el derecho a la educación "sin caridad o filantropías privadas". Suárez Japón calificó de "preocupantes" las nuevas reformas universitarias, que dejarán "una universidad pública más pobre, menos dotada para investigar y generar conocimientos, y, por lo tanto, menos capaz de ser útil a la sociedad que la financia".
La propuesta de aplicar el Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) podría provocar que miles de jóvenes abandonaran sus estudios, advirtió el ex presidente de la Asociación de Instituciones de Educación Superior Privada del Estado de Morelos (AIESPEM), Mario Cabrera Escobar, quien refirió que en la entidad, alrededor del 90 por ciento de la matrícula de escuelas particulares está becada.
For-profit schools — which include the University of Phoenix, DeVry University and Strayer University — began booming in the 1990s after changes in state and federal regulations made it possible for them to open campuses across the country and online.
Private providers are the subject of heated debate in the UK higher education sector. It's in this context that QAA (the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education) carried out 'educational oversight' reviews of 209 private colleges over the course of 2012. Overall, our review judged 86% of them to be providing a quality student experience, publishing honest and accurate information, and delivering courses that meet the academic standards laid down by their awarding organisations
El nuevo curso académico está a punto de arrancar. Y lo hace con importantes novedades en la educación superior. La provincia se ha convertido en el objetivo en el que han puesto el ojo diferentes instituciones universitarias privadas en expansión. Una oferta que vendría a completar el abanico de grados, posgrados y másters que ya imparte la Universidad de Málaga (UMA), institución pública que cuenta con más de medio centenar de titulaciones propias y con más de 4.000 egresados cada curso.
Students at for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean are amassing more debt than their peers at medical schools in the United States, and many of those students quit school early, thereby creating risk for taxpayers, according to an article in Bloomberg Markets magazine that examines trends at the Caribbean institutions. Some of those schools also pay hospitals in the United States to take their students for clinical training, a practice that has drawn the ire of some medical educators.
I have spent the last couple of months acquainting myself with the goings on in our private universities. The (recent) and still unresolved strike by academic staff in our public universities, and government's pussyfooting over the lecturers' gravamen ensures that public universities have fallen off the radar of most parents/guardians looking to advance their children/wards' education.
Generous tuition discounts and aggressive recruitment campaigns are netting record freshman enrollments at some private universities in Western Pennsylvania while lower-cost, state-owned universities struggle.
University students in Ekiti State, on Thursday, threatened to vent their anger over the lingering impasse between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the private universities ina the country.
Two private universities in the District of Columbia this month announced landmark donations. Trinity Washington University will receive $10 million for a new academic building, and Georgetown University will receive $100 million for a new school of public policy.
Statistics available with this scribe shows that parents and students’ distrust at public sector alma maters and low seating capacity of these colleges providing huge and profitable business to private sector colleges who are charging high fees.
La aprobación del proyecto de la Ley Universitaria, permitirá erradicar a las universidades privadas por la pésima calidad de formación profesional, señaló el congresista Daniel Mora Zeballos, presidente de la Comisión de Educación, Juventud y Deportes, del Congreso de la República.
La propuesta de gravar con una tasa de 16% a las colegiaturas de las escuelas privadas en el país a partir de 2014, incluida en la reforma hacendaria del Gobierno federal, tendrá un efecto negativo en las instituciones educativas y en el bolsillo de los padres de familia, pues se calcula que una tercera parte de los estudiantes de nivel superior acuden a colegios de paga, dijeron autoridades del Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) .
Back in the old says, it is very common for lecturers in public colleges to opt out to teach in the private sector. But nowadays, the situation seemed to have reversed.
The growth has been possible in part because Afghan leaders realized that the country’s public universities, decimated by years of war, couldn’t meet the demand for seats. So in 2006 they legalized private higher education.
Six new private universities with reported links to Bangladesh’s ruling party have obtained the government’s approval. With only a few months left of tenure, the government approved the universities despite claims that most existing private higher education institutions are underperforming and struggling to attract students, reports Dhaka Tribune.
Cinco universidades locales de carácter privado rechazaron la propuesta de eliminar la del IVA en colegiaturas plasmada en la Fracción IV del Artículo 15 de la Ley del Impuesto al Valor Agregado, como parte de la Reforma Hacendaria que propuso el Ejecutivo federal.
Freshman enrollment was a mixed bag this fall at private colleges and universities in West Michigan, with some schools, such as Calvin College, seeing a jump in students while others were down slightly.
Two accused arrested for duping about a dozen students mostly from Andhra Pradesh to the tune of Rs 1.35 crore by promising them admission in private medical colleges of the state had roped in an interpreter to interact with the clients in English.
Private universities in Nigeria have shown promising growth and could help retain the thousands of students who have in recent years spent billions of dollars studying abroad. However, to ensure that growth in post-secondary enrolment continues, the increase in the number of private institutions is being matched by increased government investment – part of a broader shift to expand the skilled labour pool.
Fall enrollment this year at Augustana College and the University of Sioux Falls is down, a trend at least some officials attribute to misconceptions about costs.
Two private universities in the District of Columbia this month announced landmark donations. Trinity Washington University will receive $10 million for a new academic building, and Georgetown University will receive $100 million for a new school of public policy.
Founded in 1995, Corinthian is one of the world's largest for-profit college companies, with an enrollment of about 81,000 students at 111 schools in 25 states and Canada. Operating under the names Everest, Heald and WyoTech, it offers job-training programs as well as associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees.
A report commissioned by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training showed that private higher education providers could lose $50 million in revenue if they swapped full-fee places for commonwealth-supported places.
Enrollment at four-year public and private universities in Northeast Ohio is holding steady despite declines in the number of high school graduates in the Midwest and concerns over rising tuition costs and student debt.
The U.S. still dominates QS’ leaderboard with 11 institutions cracking the top 20. However, all 11 are private universities. The highest-ranked public school is the University of Michigan at No. 22. Researchers point to budget cuts.
The list, which catalogs the top 800 universities worldwide, is compiled by London consulting firm Quacquarelli Symonds. According to Andina news agency, La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP), a private university in the San Miguel district, leads the Peruvian trio.
Seats vacant after the second round of admission in the state's private medical and dental colleges will be filled individually by the institutes for the second year in running. The Bombay high court has given an interim order staying the implementation of a government resolution (GR) of July 4 that directed private colleges to surrender vacant seats after the second round to the state. The round will be over this week.
Private technical and medical colleges demanding capitation fee from students is illegal and unethical, the Supreme Court has said and asked the Centre to make laws to put an end to such practices which deny admission to meritorious financially poor students in those institutions.
The push is part of a broad new strategy that also seeks to enhance diversity among the ranks of postdoctoral students, faculty, and senior administrators.
That’s the average price of tuition, room and board at Minnesota’s private colleges and universities this year, according to the Minnesota Private College Council.
Reacting to the Supreme Court's recent order that termed private technical and medical colleges' demand for capitation fees from students illegal and unethical, Union minister of human resource development MM Pallam Raju on Friday said there are certain loopholes in the system due to which the menace of capitation fees stays alive. "Centre is making all efforts to address the problem. Unfortunately, the Prohibition of Unfair Practices in Technical Educational Institutions, Medical Educational Institution and Universities Bill 2010 is pending in the Parliament," said Raju on the sidelines of a function organised by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU).
In a bid to keep a track of teachers working in private colleges, Barkatullah University on Saturday decided to issue bio-metric cards from the next academic session.