El director del Hospital Escuela (HE), Marco Molinero, informó este miércoles que si el problema de los médicos internos no se termina en los dos próximos días, estarían dispuestos a pedir apoyo de los estudiantes de Medicina de las universidades privadas.
Con la presencia de más de cien rectores de instituciones de educación superior privada, autoridades federales, municipales y estatales, se inauguró la LXI Asamblea de FIMPES (Federación de Instituciones Mexicanas Particulares de Educación Superior), en el Centro de Convenciones Posada del Río de Gómez Palacio.
El ministro de Educación se reunió hoy con los rectores de las 26 universidades privadas acreditadas, los que, a su vez, le solicitaron que los convoque al menos dos veces al año a una reunión en conjunto con el Consejo de Rectores.
The rapid growth of for-profit colleges over the past decade has been aided by billion-dollar ad campaigns on daytime television, the Internet and highway billboards across the country.
Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo accused Education Minister Harald Beyer of presenting a “contradiction” regarding the government’s stance on nonprofit higher education in his new higher education finance plan released on Monday.
Singapore’s Council for Private Education, or CPE, last week published new ground rules on responsible and truthful advertising by private education institutions, to rein in misleading or false claims and provide better protection for students turning to the growing private higher education sector.
Since former Congressman Steve Gunderson (R-WI) was named in January as the new head of the largest for-profit college association, APSCU, there has been talk that he might take a “kinder, gentler” approach to leading the troubled industry, which has pursued a take-no-prisoners lobbying approach in Washington.
The expansion of higher education has been extraordinary. Since the Catholic University of Angola, the country's first private higher education institution, was founded in 2001, the government has recognised a further 15 private universities.
La Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech) realizó ayer una nueva jornada de reunión, durante la cual ratificó las movilizaciones del sábado 21 y miércoles 25 de abril e integró entre sus filas, además, a cuatro nuevas universidades privadas.
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".
Critics of recent efforts to regulate for-profit colleges have suggested that the Obama Administration is waging a “war” on for-profit universities. The reality is exactly the opposite: the for-profit sector is challenging a centuries-old practice of separating philanthropy from business.
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.
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.
Shri Rajeshji Tope, Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra, has said that the state Government will support high-quality research by different private institutions and will also consider more flexibility in admission process in unaided private management institutions to increase Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education.
American universities, like American companies, have been looking to expand into new markets. They open campuses overseas. And now many private colleges are looking for growth back home, building satellite campuses around the United States.
The police and education officials on Thursday moved to shut down 14 universities that the government determined did not meet basic academic standards. The schools, with a total of about 38,000 students, were on a list of failing universities, sometimes called “garage universities” because of accusations of their low quality.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Khaled Noordin (picture) tabled three Bills for first reading in the Dewan Rakyat, proposing to amend three laws — the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (UUCA), Private Higher Educational Institutions Act 1996 (PHEIA) and Education Institutions Act (EIA) (Discipline) Act 1976.
In discussions about the future of higher education, there's often plenty of hand-wringing over the precarious fate of the hundreds of small, tuition-dependent private colleges scattered throughout the country.