British education authorities have granted full university status to an institution owned by the Apollo Group, the corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, BBC News reports. With the move, BPP University College of Professional Studies, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business and law, now becomes BPP University.
Graduate recruiters have started running apprenticeship schemes in the hope of attracting promising young people from poor backgrounds – and of reducing their reliance on the alumni from a handful of Russell Group universities.
El Gobierno de Cantabria ha aprobado el proyecto de ley por el que se reconocerá y se creará la primera universidad privada de Cantabria, que es la promovida por la Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (Funiber) en Cantabria, que, se denominará Universidad Europea del Atlántico y, en su inicio, impartirá catorce enseñanzas de Grado y dieciséis Máster.
The news that BPP has become the latest provider of legal education to slap a ‘university’ sticker on its for-profit business has not yet caused as much of a stir as when the College of Law adopted its University of Law moniker in November last year.
In a bold and commendable move, the government last week granted university status to BPP University, making it the second for-profit private higher education institution in the UK.
David Willetts should be lauded for his support for the expansion of private higher education in Britain, which is providing students with greater choice and flexibility in how and where they study. At the same time, rigorous new standards mean that, regardless of where they study, the common denominator will always be, as he says, “top quality higher education”.
El rector de la Universidad de Alicante, Manuel Palomar (Ontinyent, 1964), además de ser el presidente de turno de la Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Valencianas, acaba de asumir la presidencia de Xarxa Vives, que aglutina a 21 universidades del ámbito lingüístico catalán. Palomar denuncia la proliferación de nuevas universidades privadas, como la Católica de Sant Joan d’Alacant y la Mare Nostrum en El Campello, sin “avales científicos y académicos”. El catedrático de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos considera que la subida de tasas académicas en el sistema público genera “desigualdad”.
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