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.
Four-year private institutions spent about $2,073 to recruit each new student in 2005, more than four times what four-year public institutions spent and 28 times what two-year public colleges spent...
Private colleges took on higher levels of debt in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, but they also kept themselves financially healthy, thanks to positive...
Some 35 percent of first-time, full-time college students who plan to earn a bachelor's degree reach their goal within four years, and 56 percent achieve it within six years, according to a report ...
A German-born Swiss businessman has pledged to give more than $250-million over the next five years to a private university in the city of Bremen, in northern Germany. The donation is the largest...
With all academe's interest in endowment growth, we may sometimes lose sight of the fact that a college's purpose is not to acquire wealth but to educate students. Isn't that what public colleges...
After four years of debate, 2006 could be the year Congress finally takes action on proposed changes in federal student-aid laws. The outcome will be a good indicator of the for-profit higher-education industry's political clout.
The Career College Association says a public-opinion poll it recently commissioned found that many Americans consider for-profit colleges and trade schools a good alternative to traditional colleges for many young people in today's economy.
After watching the for-profit-college industry blossom by aggressively expanding to online education and catering to adult students over the past decade, many traditional colleges followed suit, enjoying new revenue opportunities and greater exposure as they reached fresh pools of students.
The New York State Board of Regents last week adopted a series of new rules that will tighten state control over for-profit colleges, which have become the fastest growing sector of higher education in the state.
It is discouraging to see The Chronicle run pieces with errors of commission and omission about the for-profit sector of higher education. The most recent is Joshua Woods's "Opportunity, Ease, Encouragement, and Shame: a Short Course in Pitching For-Profit Education"
Florida's attorney general expanded his investigation of allegedly misleading sales tactics at for-profit Florida Metropolitan University, demanding records detailing the school's job-placement rates, grading, instructor qualifications, financial aid and course prices.
Concerned that a growing number of students are enrolling in poor-quality private universities and diploma mills, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are working together to develop more stringent oversight of their higher-education systems.
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.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be able to give grants to private colleges to pay for building repairs caused by future natural disasters, under legislation approved by...
Economic and racial diversity is declining among students at 22 private colleges in California, according to a report released today by Claremont Graduate University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The report, “Using Multiple Lenses: An Examination of the Economic and Racial/Ethnic Diversity of College Students,” examined changes from 2000 to 2004 in the composition of students at the colleges, which are participating in a project designed to increase access to and success in college among students from low-income families and minority groups that are underrepresented in higher education.
In the latest example of an apparent trend of private companies buying out for-profit colleges, Concorde Career Colleges Inc. announced on Wednesday that it would be acquired by an affiliate...
Show, don't tell: That's what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit told the National Labor Relations Board this week. A three-judge panel of the appellate court ruled on...
Private colleges took on higher levels of debt in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a report released on Wednesday by Moody's Investors Service, but they also kept themselves financially healthy...
Four-year private institutions spent about $2,073 to recruit each new student in 2005, more than four times what four-year public institutions spent and 28 times what two-year public colleges...
Some 35 percent of first-time, full-time college students who plan to earn a bachelor's degree reach their goal within four years, and 56 percent achieve it within six years, according to a report...
The top lawyers at private universities and research institutions receive the highest pay among in-house higher-education lawyers, according to the results of a new survey released to...
Students from wealthy families received much more financial aid from private colleges and universities in 2000 than they did in 1993, according to a short policy paper that was posted this week on...
Other states are watching legislative debate on the future of the agency that oversees proprietary institutions A battle is being waged in California over the degree to which for-profit colleges...
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