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.
Kuwait’s strategy for urgently widening higher education access includes strengthening post-secondary paths into vocational and higher education, developing world-class, independent universities in different regions, encouraging the creation of private universities and providing scholarships for study abroad.
The Universities for Research and Innovation Bill 2012, introduced in the Indian national parliament in May, aims to create high-quality research and innovation universities, or world-class universities.
A Korea-born American who heads Pyongyang's only private university is trying to teach students in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea about market economies, writes Park Ju-Min for China Daily.
For-profit college representatives are fighting in federal court for the right to avoid telling students if they are likely to afford their debts after attending school.
La Conferencia Episcopal de Honduras envió una nota al Congreso Nacional demandando la urgente aprobación de la Ley de Universidades Privadas, instrumento en proceso de socialización desde el año pasado. El documento fue firmado por el cardenal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, presidente de la conferencia episcopal, y todos los obispos de la Iglesia Católica de Honduras.
El hermano del candidato presidencial Franco Parisi dijo en un programa de TV que no es "ningún santo" y que planteó incorporarse a la propiedad de un plantel de educación superior. "Pero si era un tremendo negocio", aseveró.
En las tres décadas recientes, el Estado mexicano "ha claudicado en su responsabilidad de impulsar y apoyar la educación superior pública", situación que ha provocado que cada año sean miles los estudiantes rechazados de instituciones públicas, así como la proliferación de escuelas privadas que hoy concentran a la tercera parte de la matrícula total en ese nivel, coinciden en señalar expertos.
Antonio Alarcón Camarillo, delegado estatal de la Asociación Nacional de Instituciones Educativas Particulares, señalo que las escuelas particulares en todo el país y en Veracruz se están formado bajo cuadros de calidad que la educación requiere, es un poco complejo que se hable de un programa de calidad, pero las escuelas particulares lo están aplicando, refirió el delegado estatal
Los parlamentarios impulsaron la medida tras conocerse que en estas casas de estudio prohíben directamente la existencia de esas organizaciones de estudiantes en sus planteles.
Los jóvenes se siguen quedando sin acceso a la educación superior por falta de infraestructura en las universidades públicas y esto tiene que ser resuelto por las instituciones privadas
Sin embargo, la educación superior en El Salvador desde la década de los ochenta y noventa se prolifera desde la oferta privada de baja calidad, y como tendencia general se mercantiliza la educación secundaria y superior.
Polémica por críticas de gremio empresarial a instituciones privadas de educación superior. Piden fortalecer la evaluación de la calidad educativa y se oponen a moratoria de nuevos centros.
Así quedó de manifiesto en el segundo informe de estados financieros de las universidades chilenas, que refleja el panorama de los ingresos, los gastos y las transacciones con empresas relacionadas por parte de las instituciones de educación superior.
La Asociación Nacional de Universidades Privadas de Bolivia (ANUP) pide que en la reglamentación de la Ley de Autonomías se incluya a los estudiantes de Medicina de las universidades privadas para que realicen prácticas en los hospitales públicos.
Tras las críticas del gobierno a las universidades privadas por su “muy escasa” actividad investigadora, esos centros terciarios advierten que las instituciones carecen de un fondo público permanente para desarrollar la tarea científica, tal como cuenta la Universidad de la República (Udelar) a través del presupuesto destinado por el Estado. Por ese motivo reclaman al Estado recursos fijos para poder llevar a cabo sus proyectos de investigación.
Con el objetivo de garantizar que la educación que se imparte en las aulas de las universidades privadas en Tamaulipas cumplen con los requisitos de calidad, toda vez que el desempeño se ha presentado muy bajo, alcanzando apenas un 6% de desempeño en el ultimo año.
El Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción (CNA) y nueve universidades, representadas por sus rectores y académicos, constituyeron una alianza democrática para vigilar la correcta aplicación de la Ley Electoral y de las Organizaciones Políticas de cara a los comicios internos y generales.
Las autoridades del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (MEC), de la Universidad de la República (Udelar) y la comunidad científica reconocen la pobre actividad de investigación realizada en Uruguay. A su vez advierten que el nulo desarrollo en esa materia pone un techo al crecimiento productivo del país por la limitación del conocimiento. El gobierno señala que las universidades privadas realizan una cantidad “muy escasa” de proyectos de investigación y en algunos centros es “casi inexistente”, según dijo a El Observador el director de Educación del MEC, Luis Garibaldi. El Poder Ejecutivo reclama que esas instituciones destinen más presupuesto a la actividad científica.
Los cinco mayores centros de estudio superior privados manejan matrículas por encima de los 4.500 estudiantes, cifras que van en aumento por la demanda que también han generado los extranjeros residentes en el país.