One doesn't know whether to rejoice or be aghast at the news that the National Universities Commission (NUC), is to license three more private universities before the end of this year, bringing the total number of private universities to 26.
Education Management Corporation, which enrolls 72,000 students on 72 campuses in 24 states, agreed to sell itself last week to two private equity firms for $3.4-billion, becoming the first publicly traded higher-education company to turn private. The move triggered speculation among analysts that the deal could lead to other takeovers of for-profit colleges.
Goldie Blumenstyk quotes Samuel C. Wood, a former assistant professor at Stanford University, as saying, "The for-profits are motivated to devote themselves to 'student acquisition' and retention" ("Why For-Profit Colleges Are Like Health Clubs," The Chronicle, May 5). What college isn't?
A battle is being waged in California over the degree to which for-profit colleges should be regulated, a fight that could ultimately ripple out to affect other states.
Greek riot police officers fired tear gas into a crowd of several thousand protesters in Athens this month, injuring about 15 people. While the protesters were primarily university students who oppose government proposals to restructure higher education in Greece, news reports suggested that the targets of the crackdown were "anarchists" who had infiltrated the demonstration to use it as a cover for vandalism.
India's Parliament has amended the country's Constitution to impose admission quotas for lower castes and classes on nearly all private colleges that do not receive government aid. Only unaided, minority-run institutions are exempt from the quotas established under last month's near-unanimous vote.
Walk into any classroom at one of China's elite business schools and what you're likely to see isn't all that different from what you would find at Harvard, Wharton, or MIT's Sloan School. True, there's a preponderance of Asian faces and the occasional smattering of Mandarin. But the classes, course materials, subject matter, and even the teachers are virtually identical to their U.S. counterparts.
Shengda College in central China has a diverse curriculum, foreign faculty members to teach English and a manicured campus, where weeping willows shade a recreational lake.
The operators of Kwansei Gakuin University and Seiwa College, both in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, plan to merge in spring 2008, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Wednesday.
The Government of Madhya Pradesh issued the following press release: The State Government has put a ban on use of the words 'Indian' and 'National' by the private colleges with their name running in the state
NEARLY 1005 students, who have cleared B.Ed entrance examination conducted by the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), have become the victim of the ongoing tussle among the management of the various private colleges running the B.Ed courses. They could not get admission till date.
Marking a major step in the educational sector, the Kerala assembly on Friday unanimously passed a legislation seeking to regulate admissions, fee structures and minority status of self-financing professional colleges. The Bill, piloted by Education Minister MA Baby, was passed by the House in an extended sitting that ended in the wee hours on Friday, with the Congress-led opposition UDF backing it after attacking the LDF government at various stages of the progress of the legislation.
Against the backdrop of a forceful appeal made by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra Government on Wednesday decided to restore reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs in vocational courses of private educational institutions in the state. NCP, a constituent of the DF government in the state along with Congress, expressed satisfaction with the decision after it was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet in Mumbai.
The Pakistani authority has announced policies on several key issues on private higher education. The government agreed to expedite the establishment of 9 engineering universities with partnering countries such as Austria, Germany, Japan, etc. While these countries will handle administration and personnel of the universities, the Pakistani government will fully take care of the finance. Another issue concerns illegal and substandard universities run by the private sector. The government directs the provincial authorities to close down any private universities illegally operating and downgrade any institutions that fail to improve their standard.
Wearing a dark-blue polyester suit, shiny black shoes, a stiff white shirt, and a humorless expression, Le Cong Co looks like the quintessential Vietnamese bureaucrat.
The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that Harvard University may withhold some campus-police records because it is a private institution and is not subject to public-disclosure rules.
India's Parliament has amended the country's Constitution to impose admission quotas for lower castes and classes on nearly all private colleges that do not receive government aid.
At least a dozen state senators in New York have been getting free election-year publicity from the state’s private colleges after using taxpayer dollars to publish college guidebooks, each with one of the lawmakers’ photographs on the cover.
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