With Congress poised to take up legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act this week, proprietary institutions are lobbying furiously against a provision that could put hundreds of for-profit colleges out of business.
Under pressure from for-profit colleges, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives agreed last week to modify a proposal in a key higher-education bill that could have put hundreds of such institutions out of business.
The government has drawn up a draft law giving itself the power to decide three-fourths of all admissions in private educational institutions, determine their fee structures, and impose government reservation policies on them. It will decide which professional college a student will study in, based on a list of multiple preferences. There will be no ‘domicile criterion’ in admissions.
The government of India plans to tighten its control over private higher-education institutions by deciding their tuition structures, imposing quotas, and determining who is admitted into as many as three-quarters of their seats, The Hindustan Times, a local newspaper, reported on Sunday.
Six people were arrested and at least a dozen were injured when police officers broke up a crowd of students who had rallied outside an education conference in Manila last month to protest...