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.
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.
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).
Some students in the Inland Empire have complained in recent years that the education and degrees they receive from some area for-profit colleges leave them unemployable in their fields of interest and facing mounds of student loan debt.
A little more than a week after the state of New York sued Donald Trump for $40 million, claiming his Trump University doesn't give students much benefit, the feds are taking a harder look at all for-profit career education institutions.
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.
The Bay Area's for-profit colleges soak up millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded student grants and loans and charge students high tuition, yet many have low graduation rates or high rates of student loan defaults, an analysis of U.S. Department of Education data reveals.
With students enjoying their first weeks on campus and President Obama's call to bring more accountability to colleges still reverberating, for-profit schools are gearing up for what could be another round of battles over government efforts to tighten regulation of their operations.
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.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin called for an examination of for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean that have access to federal student loans yet may be subject to standards below those set for medical students in the U.S.
Real-estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump is no stranger to the spotlight — but he can’t be reveling in the attention he’s receiving now. On August 24, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, a for-profit school run by Trump, claiming that it tricked students into paying thousands of dollars for courses that failed to provide promised instruction on real-estate business techniques. If these allegations are true, it’s a warning that at least some of what purports to be nontraditional for-profit education can be an old-fashioned rip-off.
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,
La iniciativa de Reforma Hacendaria presentada por el Ejecutivo Federal, incrementará el precio en las colegiaturas y repercutirá en la economía de los estudiantes que no encontraron un espacio en las instituciones de nivel medio superior y superior.
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.
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.
Para el diputado del PAN, Juventino López Ayala, es injusto que se grave el IVA a las colegiaturas de las escuelas privadas como se pretende en la Reforma Hacendaria recibida en el Congreso de la Unión.
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.
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.