Vocational education providers appear to be another victim of the Gillard government's push against foreign workers after it failed to implement a promise to streamline visas for overseas students.
The Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) on Friday decided to withdraw from the agreement it had entered into with the state government for admission to merit and management quota seats in colleges run by it.
In a major crackdown on private institutes, the government has ordered criminal proceedings against Sri Naryana, Sri Chaitanya and Sri Gayatri junior colleges, three most popular corporate groups for running intermediate classes which the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) does not recognize.
The government will bring an ordinance to make it mandatory for private colleges in the country to seek the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for running postgraduate Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
Northwestern College, the second oldest private, two-year college in Illinois, announced that its Board of Directors this past quarter voted not to increase tuition for the 2013-2014 academic year. This is the second year in a row that the Board has chosen not to increase tuition, despite a challenging economic climate. Consequently, the costs per credit hour in the upcoming year will remain the same as those assessed two years ago during the 2011-2012 academic year.
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Madras high court to direct the private dental colleges to ensure and conduct admission of students to the postgraduation courses strictly as per the laws and regulations based on the merit-based rank list published by the Director of Medical Education (DME) and consequently direct the state government to monitor and supervise the admission process to ensure proper transparent and merit-based admission.
The admission supervisory committee (ASC), headed by Justice J M James, on Thursday cancelled the entrance test by private medical colleges to fill 35% management quota seats, citing question paper leak. The exam will now be held on June 22.
Private colleges and universities can go ahead and implement their planned tuition increase this school year as the Supreme Court removed the legal barrier for its implementation.
The government will bring an ordinance to make it mandatory for private colleges in the country to seek the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for running postgraduate Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
Hopeful of passing two pending Bills to check malpractices in institutes of higher learning, including private universities, Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Friday sought cooperation of the state government to take punitive action against universities indulging in malpractices.
Even as the fake degree racket of Chandra MohanJha (CMJ) University is getting murkier and believed to have even crossed the country's frontiers, the University Grants Commission (UGC) that had granted it the status of an 'university' has failed to take any action till date. Senior officials from Nagpur University, who are now searching for the CMJU's beneficiary students in over 800 colleges in its jurisdiction, disclosed that the Delhi-based apex body had granted 'private' status to as many as 150 universities across the country. Of them about 20 were believed to have operating bogus degree racket through agents spread far and wide across the country.
Local colleges and universities are hiking tuition costs by an average of 3 to 4 percent for next year, with some school officials calling the increases among the lowest in recent history.
This year, colleges and private universities, in their bid to attract students in the upcoming “admission season’ have started to announce doles that range from free studies, attractive scholarships, bank loans and merit-based deduction in fee structure. While there are more than 16 private and deemed universities in Jaipur and a dozen of private colleges, it’s the latter that are more worried about filling up their seats.
Uncovered confidential contracts reveal that millions of dollars may have been illegally funneled from private universities to fund the success of a club soccer team.
Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.
The Department of Higher Education and Training would like to place on record that Cida City Campus is a private higher education institution and as such is regulated by the department in terms of the Regulatory Framework for Private Higher Education Institutions so as to ensure that the post school system provides both youth and adults with opportunities to participate and gain an education to improve their lives and contribute towards the economic development of the country.
When Danielle Powell signed a statement agreeing to follow the rules outlined in the student handbook at Grace University, a small Bible college in Omaha, she had never dated a woman and had no particular plans to do so. As such, the prohibition on “sexually immoral behavior” including "homosexual acts" did not seem like an issue.
Singapore’s first US-style liberal arts college in collaboration with Yale University, set up at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has selected its first cohort of 157 students to start in August – after sifting through 11,400 applications from over 130 countries – the college announced last week.