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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.