Some blame the problem on for-profit universities that have proliferated in the past two decades as a reaction to increased demand for higher education. The universities, which offer as little as one degree, have earned the moniker ‘garage universities’ because they often operate from houses, where each room is a ‘faculty’.
15%: Increase in private university tuition from 5 years ago New data shows that university endowments averaged total returns of over 19% for the fiscal year ending June 2011, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund, a nonprofit asset manager. Although this marks the second consecutive year of gains, parents shouldn't expect lower tuition costs until schools have had more years of strong growth.
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.
Perturbed over key bills related to reforms in higher education being stuck in Parliament for over two years, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday accused private players running educational institutes of stalling passage of these legislations which seek to raise quality.
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.
Las universidades privadas se quedan con el 81% del total de la matrícula actual. Sin embargo, solamente cuatro de estas instituciones poseen al menos una carrera acreditada que certifique la calidad de la formación que ofrecen a los futuros profesionales.
Solo nueve universidades de las 132 que existen en el país completaron a la fecha los procesos de autoevaluación de calidad educativa de 31 carreras profesionales, informó hoy el Consejo de Evaluación, Acreditación y Certificación de la Calidad de la Educación Superior Universitaria (Coneau).
Selected private colleges and TAFEs will soon benefit from the easy-street student visa processing arrangements already enjoyed by universities, under immigration reforms signed off today in Canberra.
Carnegie Mellon University – Australia’s Executive Director and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Terry Buss, will present on ‘Managing the Global University in Australia’ at the upcoming Inaugural Australian Private Higher Education Conference from 14 – 15 June 2012.
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat, has been on a crusade over the past few years against for-profit colleges. You know, schools such as the University of Phoenix or the DeVry Institute, educational outfits operated by profit-seeking businesses.
El rector de la UAB señaló que "el ideal sería que el estado se hiciera cargo de la brecha entre los aranceles de referencia y efectivos, sobre todo con la gente más pobre y no sacarse el pan de la boca".
Rector de la U. Adolfo Ibáñez dice que "no es necesario romper el Consejo de Rectores ni modificar su financiamiento, simplemente sería una instancia de convenciones parciales".
Whilst the expansion of private higher education enrolment has had a significant impact in boosting access, these universities are relatively small and as of 2005, almost 90% of students were in Public universities and other institutes of higher learning. The Private higher education sector is, however, continually expanding and its proportion of intake can only go up.