Over the past 60 years a great sea change has occurred in the field of education. In 1950, education, whether in schools, technical colleges or universities, was effectively a state monopoly. Yes, there were Catholic schools and a few Protestant ones, but these two functioned as sidekicks of the great public education system.
Commonwealth funding for university places should be extended to private providers to encourage wider participation in higher education, a Victorian government panel has recommended.
Private colleges are spending more on grant aid than ever before, according to the results of a survey released on Wednesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. After years of stability, the average tuition-discount rate for full-time freshmen entering college in the fall of 2008 rose to 41.8 percent, up from 39.1 percent in the previous academic year.
The article discusses the results of an econometric analysis report "Students Choosing Colleges: Understanding the Matriculation Decision at a Highly Selective Private Institution" by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research.
Police officials in Rajasthan illegally sell unidentified corpses to private medical colleges for Rs. 5-7 lakh each, an RTI application by a businessman in Jaipur has revealed. Raj Kumar Soni’s son Rahul was allegedly murdered last year in Sriganganagar district, 500 km from Jaipur.
Nearly a fifth of Australian private colleges are "permanent residency factories", a new report in the education sector has revealed. The education sector, which is the country's third largest export industry, has been affected by a string of assaults on international students, particularly Indians. The claims of exploitation of overseas students have also not helped matters.