A few days ago, the report of a 2 year investigation by a Committee of the Senate, led by Tom Harkin, was presented with severe criticisms towards current practices in for profit education in the US. The report is based on an extensive two year investigation and resulted in a in-depth report about the selected 30 companies that were examined.
A new scholarship from Strayer University will trim about 30 percent off the cost of a degree for qualifying students. And other for-profits have also increased institutional grant aid, suggesting that the industry may be warming to the tuition discounting that is so prevalent among traditional colleges.
Rosemir Soares always wanted to go to university but could never afford the fees. Then she discovered Prouni, a scholarship program of the Brazilian government that has guaranteed a college education for more than one million low-income students since it began, in 2005.
The US based Carnegie Mellon University officially launched its Rwandan campus on Friday August 24 where they will be offering a Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT).
A specter of corruption is haunting the global campaign toward higher education internationalization. An overseas degree is increasingly valuable, so it is not surprising that commercial ventures have found opportunities on the internationalization landscape. New private actors have entered the sector, with the sole goal of making money. Some of them are less than honorable. Some universities look at internationalization as a contribution to the bottom line in an era of financial cutbacks. The rapidly expanding private higher education sector globally is largely for-profit. In a few cases, such as Australia and increasingly Britain, national policies concerning higher education internationalization tilt toward earning income for the system.
West Virginia's Higher Education Policy Commission has approved a rule expanding its authority over private and for-profit colleges. The policy approved Friday would require information from every state private college on student retention rates, transfers, licensure pass rates and loan default rates.
The 10th Annual Conference on Role of Private Universities in Higher Education in Africa kicked off on 8th August 2012, in view to assess the impact of private higher education provision on the revitalization of higher education in Africa and to bring some helpful developments on the role of private universities in higher education in Africa.
For the first time in West Virginia, the higher education oversight body will have sweeping authority to crack down on struggling private and for-profit colleges. On Friday, the state Higher Education Policy Commission approved a new policy that gives itself the power to demand data on student retention rates, transfer information, licensure pass rates and loan default rates from every private college operating in West Virginia.
After two year's worth of chairing frequently combative committee hearings on for-profit higher education, Sen. Tom Harkin's four-part report should come as no surprise. But there is more bad news for the industry.
All doors to higher education are now closed to expatriate students in Saudi Arabia. After the Arab Spring, Arab expat children cannot study in universities either in the Kingdom or abroad. For many expatriates, especially those from Arab countries, going back to study in their home countries is a risk. Expats also told Arab News that the private sector of higher education does not benefit them due to several reasons. The latest edition of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report confirmed that only 25 percent of expatriate students enrolled in private universities.
THE Zambia Open University (ZAOU) has increased its tuition and related fees by 25 per cent effective January 28, 2013. ZAOU public relations manager Mulife Malambo said in a statement yesterday that despite the increase, the fees were still low compared to those charged by other universities in the country.
The bill seeking to set up six private universities in the State would pave the way for enhancing the quality of higher education, Higher Education Minister C T Ravi has said.
All private higher education institutions (PHEI) will be required to post a bond before they are issued licences to operate. The Higher Education Ministry is expected to impose the condition by the end of the year.
In an echo of their broader philosophical divide, Romney and Obama split sharply over what role the private sector should play in the U.S. education system.
The bond imposed to safeguard the interest of students at private higher education institutions should be jointly shared by students and the institution.
Private universities play a critical role in advancing the higher education goals of Africa, as the world’s least developed continent grapples with a burgeoning youth population seeking quality, globally competitive skills, a pan-African forum held in Ethiopia agreed.
Professional associations in Egypt have begun clamping down on graduates from private universities who gained admission to higher education with school-leaving marks far lower than those set by state-run institutions.