While the 17 public universities and university colleges are rather autonomous and self-sufficient, never short of student enrolment and comfortably funded by the Government, the private sector feels somewhat like a stepchild in need of more attention.
A private-equity group acquired a small liberal-arts university in Arizona this month with the hope of expanding it into a world-renowned Christian institution.
A private university in Belarus is going to suspend its operations after being given two weeks to vacate its main building by the government, which appeared to marshal its forces last week...
Lawmakers in New York State finally approved a spending plan in August that avoided cuts to financial aid for needy students and included a program that, for the first time...
Tuition and fees at more than 2,800 colleges and universities, as compiled by the College Board. Tuition will rise at private colleges and universities next year at the same rate as last...
In a bid to exert more control over wayward private universities and deal with what it described as rampant corruption at some of them, South Korea's education ministry has demanded...
Private colleges in Washington State would be allowed, for the first time, to receive state aid for students enrolling in high-demand programs, under a controversial budget provision that state...
Gov. George E. Pataki of New York wants the state's private colleges to be able to compete, for the first time, for public funds to help pay for capital projects. The governor, a Republican...
Harvard University plans to create a center to study human embryonic stem cells, raising millions of dollars privately to avoid strict federal regulations on such research. Details of the proposed...
Another private-equity investor is taking a high-profile stake in the higher-education industry. Sterling Capital Partners announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the for-profit Florida Coastal...
Gov. Gary Locke has vetoed a controversial proposal that would have allowed private colleges in Washington State to receive state aid for students enrolling in high-demand programs.
Macedonia has recognized a nine-year-old private university that teaches in the Albanian language, in a step intended to remove a major source of conflict between the country's two main ethnic...
The owner of a private Japanese university was arrested this month and charged with making off with millions of dollars in government subsidies while his institution ran up such huge debts that...
S. Auer, P. Burek, and T. Grawe. Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW '04), Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), (2004)
S. Auer, P. Burek, and T. Grawe. Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW '04), Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), (2004)