The Mexican government has shut down 88 private universities over the past two years for failing to comply with basic standards, education officials said this week.
The National Council for Higher Education has published a list of universities and other tertiary institutions and warned the public against enrolling in illegal institutions of learning.
The Afghan government is actively planning for the country's first private university. The American University of Afghanistan is to be American-style, with English-language instruction and mainly American professors. It is to open as an undergraduate institution, with graduate programs in the future. The Afghan Ministry of Higher Education has contracted an American organization for expertise on foreign institution building and is obtaining U.S. government funds. There will be a 10-month feasibility study from this summer, with the university slated to open shortly thereafter.
State grants to Texas students who choose to attend private universities have survived relatively unscathed, despite deep cuts in the state budget and plans by opponents to mount an offensive against the program.