California's public higher education crisis has a flip side: swelling enrollment, expanding faculty, and state-of-the-art construction at the state's private colleges and universities.
Amid all the concerns about affordability, value and consumer preference in the higher education arena today, some good news has surfaced that should give private colleges and universities optimism heading into the fall prospective-student visitation season.
Already under constant fire from Capitol Hill Democrats screaming for tighter regulations, the for-profit college sector now has bigger problems on its hands.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Bridgepoint Education Inc. over the compensation of admissions staff members, the company announced Monday in a corporate filing. The for-profit is also facing a serious accreditation challenge for its Ashford University, which is scrambling to retain regional accreditation.
The University of Phoenix spent the most money on Google Adwords -- roughly $170,000 per day -- in the third quarter of 2012, according to a recent report by Wordstream, an online advertising consulting firm, cited by the Daily Mail. Ask.com, Amazon.com, Zappos.com and Hotels.com came in second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
Aquí en Costa Rica todo el mundo sabe qué ha pasado, pasa y, probablemente, seguirá pasando en el mundo de la educación. ¿A quiénes se pretende engañar?
La Coordinadora de Estudiantes de Educación Superior Privada envió una carta a la Confech, en la que reitera su interés de constituir un petitorio unido, solicitando la realización de una serie de gestos políticos que permitan avanzar hacia un trato igualitario a todos sus integrantes.
El secretario general de la Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Universitarios (Contu), Enrique Levet Gorozpe, afirmó que 30 por ciento de la matrícula de alumnos universitarios del país estudia en universidades privadas.
La Secretaría de Educación de Veracruz (SEV) inspecciona universidades privadas que operan en la entidad para que cumplan con los lineamientos de autoridades educativas federales y estatales. La directora para la Incorporación de Escuelas Particulares de la SEV, Ruth Callejas Roldán, comentó que el área a su cargo encontró inconsistencias administrativas en instituciones de educación superior que operan en la entidad, sin embargo, no profundizó en el tema porque continúan inspeccionándolas.
Sólo el diez por ciento de las universidades privadas con Reconocimiento de Validez Oficial de Estudios (Revoe) federal, alcanza estándares de reconocimiento internacional, es decir, que están acreditadas y hacen esfuerzos en materia de compromiso con la planeación y la calidad.
Durante dos días, el foro De Frente organizado por la Asociación Nacional de Universidades Privadas de Honduras (Anuprih) sirvió para dar a conocer la postura y planes de gobierno de los precandidatos a la presidencia de la República, por los partidos tradicionales, de cara a la problemática de la nación y las posibles soluciones que le pudiesen dar.
Las universidades privadas aprovecharon el foro para “ablandar” a los precandidatos a favor del proyecto de creación de una Ley de Universidades Privadas, tema que ha enfrentado a estas organizaciones con la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), ente que rectora la educación superior en Honduras.
The cost of college went up again. The full cost for a year at a public college hit nearly $18,000. If that isn't sticker shock enough, the average cost of a private education is almost $40,000 per year.
Private Universities in India have grown from 16 to 140 in five years (124%) and from 100 to 140 in less than a year. This is astonishing growth as only universities in India have degree awarding power. Colleges are "affiliated" to universities as teaching institutions.
There are strong indications that demand for higher education is outstripping supply. In January, Gloria Sekwena died and at least 20 other people were seriously injured when about 5,000 people stampeded in a desperate attempt to register at the last minute with the University of Johannesburg. The university received more than 85,000 applications for fewer than 12,000 places last year.
Camila Vallejo has come to the UK to deliver its students a message: learn from what privatisation did to higher education in Chile or your universities will suffer the same fate.
The draft bill also implies that private universities could benefit from public funding should the government deem this to be necessary and allocate money to them through parliament. “A private university shall account for any funds received from the government,” says section 50 of the legislation.
Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake issuing a statement on the Supreme Court verdict which dismissed the Fundamental Rights petition filed against the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) said he was happy that the Malabe Private Medical College can now continue awarding degrees.