Singapore and the United Kingdom will work together to raise standards in private education in both countries. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to do so was signed on Friday by the Council for Private Education (CPE) Singapore and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) United Kingdom.
Higher Education Authority Chairman John Hennessy said the continuing growing demand for Higher Education in Ireland could no longer be fully met by the publicly funded institutions. He said that at a time of cutbacks, and because of close links to industry, private colleges were often in a better position to deliver better programmes.
The Chairman of the Higher Education Authority, John Hennessy, has criticised the “very restrictive” public service working practices across the third-level sector. In an address yesterday he also envisaged a greater role for private colleges in the provision of higher education courses in Ireland.
The government is being urged to prevent universities being bought by private equity firms after the College of Law, a charity that provides teaches law courses in London and six other cities across England, was sold to a private equity firm for £200m.
Figures show that leading Russell Group universities spent £382 million (US$613 million) on the highest paid academics and managers last year – twice as much as in 2003-04. It also emerged that the proportion of university spending on top staff – those paid at least £100,000 a year – increased from just 1.8% to 3.8%, writes Graeme Paton for The Telegraph.
El futuro del Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF) pasa por dar entrada a la iniciativa privada. Lo confirmó ayer el conseller de Sanidad, Luis Rosado, quien dio a conocer la decisión de abrir la puerta tanto a centros públicos como privados para que la financiación no proceda «exclusivamente de subvenciones de las organizaciones públicas». La Universidad Católica San Vicente Mártir podría ser una de las instituciones privadas que mayor protagosnimo tendrán en los convenios de colaboración con el CIPF.
Las universidades públicas aún otorgan más peso a la enseñanza presencial que a la virtual. Sin embargo, las privadas sí han sabido ver el modelo virtual, basado en Internet, el futuro de la educación en nuestro país.