With a target of 75,000 foreign students registering at private institutions of higher learning by next year, the Higher Education Ministry has been talking with providers on ways to make Malaysia a regional hub of excellence, writes KOH SOO LING.
Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities president Dr Parmjit Singh calls for regular dialogues between the Higher Education Ministry and private education providers with a view to blurring the boundary that separates public and private tertiary institutions.
The article discusses how Vietnamese citizens Ton Nu Thi Ninh and Dang Thi Hoang Yen have worked to support the creation of private universities in Vietnam. The author discusses the perception of private education in Vietnam.
With tuitions, fees, and room and board at dozens of colleges now reaching $50,000 a year, the ability to sustain private higher education for all but the very well-heeled is questionable. According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, over the past 25 years, average college tuition and fees have risen by 440 percent — more than four times the rate of inflation and almost twice the rate of medical care.
SOMETHING must be going wrong with our private universities. If you have had cause to follow events, you just might recall the various incidents in which students of one private university have engaged in skirmishes with those of another.
Charismatic as well as politically astute, Ton Nu Thi Ninh is a patient woman — up to a point. As a high-ranking member of Vietnam's Communist Party, and regarded as the most powerful woman in...
Waldorf College, a financially struggling private institution in Iowa, has agreed to sell its assets to Columbia Southern University, an online institution based in Alabama.