Karnataka, whose capital Bangalore is a major attraction for students across India for education, particularly engineering and medical courses, is to get 13 more private universities, taking their total to 15.
Punjab assembly passed two controversial bills on Friday, paving the way for two private universities to come up in the state even as the treasury benches ridiculed private varsities terming them as teaching shops set up to mint money.
Government is to come up with new policies that will support private universities in research and development, a senior education official has announced.
Private medical college business has become the easiest way to make money. These institutions running without required faculty or training facilities are recovering millions of rupees from parents in the name of medical education but producing half-backed doctors, not educated or trained as per the needs of market, said senior healthcare expert and ex-member of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Dr Shershah Syed here Thursday.
The Supreme Court, while deciding to examine the validity of the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), has permitted private medical colleges to conduct their own entrance tests for admission to MBBS/postgraduate/dental courses but they should not declare the results until its further orders.
The bill on compulsory accreditation of all higher education institutions may not have passed political muster, but that isn't going to put brakes on the government's grand plans.
Wealthy donors to Ivy League universities can "buy a place" for their offspring, and admissions policies at elite U.S. universities are far less meritocratic than anything that would be accepted in Britain, the universities and science minister has argued.
Private universities and colleges are against a proposal by the Higher Education Ministry to collect bonds from them, with a view to providing students with a safety net.
The average sticker price of tuition and fees at private nonprofit colleges has jumped 13% since the 2007-08 academic year, even after accounting for inflation, and by 27% at public four-year schools, according to the College Board.
Now, Yale is seeking to export those values by establishing the first foreign campus to bear its name, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is set to open this summer. The ambitious, multimillion-dollar project thrills many in the Yale community who say it will help the university maintain its prestige and build global influence.
People who attend private profit-making schools account for 47 percent of all those with a loan in default. Public schools account for 42 percent; private nonprofit, 12 percent. Loans are considered in default when payments are 360 days delinquent.
Ten years after private engineering colleges made their way in the state in 2002, the cash-strapped state is all set to throw open its doors to self-financing degree colleges and universities as in other parts of the country. The proposal will be placed in the Cabinet for the final nod.
A report released this month by the U.S. Treasury Department shows a correlation between state budget cuts to community colleges over the past decade and a growth in enrollment at for-profit colleges.
Pitching for the private sector to play a bigger role in higher education, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the private sector needed to step up its efforts to convince the people that it offered the best quality of education compared to the highest international standards.
The private vs. government debate is not a new one in education, but is less applicable to the university landscape. But it has gained momentum in Karnataka now in the backdrop of as many as 13 new private universities getting the green signal from the government to establish themselves in the State. So far, there were only two in Karnataka.
Between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years, published tuition and fees at private, nonprofit colleges rose by 3.9%. While students may initially think this is bad news, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) reports that it was the lowest rate of increase in at least four decades.
Savvy families shopping for college know that tuition typically rises faster than inflation. So Lauren Seely and her parents in Northwest Washington were startled to learn this year that an upper-tier private college on her short list had frozen its price.