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Kaplan, the for-profit higher education provider, is to offer tuition for external University of London degrees in a direct echo of a model for widening participation suggested by universities and science minister David Willetts.
As the founder of KIIT University, a top private institution here, Achuyta Samanta has built an institution that occupies dozens of buildings across 350 acres of plush land. Yet he has no office.
India’s university regulator is likely to make it harder to establish private universities in the country as part of an effort to crack down on such institutions, C2live, a news Web site, reports. Many private higher-education providers have been caught offering courses without the regulator’s approval.
The recession has sent tuition-discount rates at private colleges soaring to record highs, reaching 41.8 percent in 2008. But some small colleges have managed to buck that trend, lowering their discount rates while raising enrollment.
But today they are facing two imminent threats to their near-monopoly of higher education. The first is the expansion of educational providers that exist solely on private support. The second comes from the small but growing efforts of for-profit universities, heavily influenced by commercial education ventures in the United States.
On leave from the government department of Georgetown University, Joshua Mitchell, acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, talks about the challenges of starting a private university in a country damaged by years of war. He also shares the special pitch he gives prospective faculty members.
It seems too good to be true, at least for companies. Customers arrive at for-profit colleges by the million. With them comes billions of dollars of federal student grants and loans, to be poured into corporate coffers. Public subsidies may provide up to 90% of revenue; the government bears the risk of loan defaults. This business model has served firms rather well. Its effect on students and taxpayers is less clear. This summer, however, a brawl over for-profit colleges has exploded at last.
Fly-by-night colleges operating in the Western Cape could soon be closed down, with police raids on illegal colleges expected to be continued across the country.
Over the past 60 years a great sea change has occurred in the field of education. In 1950, education, whether in schools, technical colleges or universities, was effectively a state monopoly. Yes, there were Catholic schools and a few Protestant ones, but these two functioned as sidekicks of the great public education system.
Commonwealth funding for university places should be extended to private providers to encourage wider participation in higher education, a Victorian government panel has recommended.
A group of leading independent schools is studying plans to set up an elite private university modelled on American liberal arts colleges, which concentrates on high-quality teaching for undergraduates rather than research.
A decade ago, the thought of a company such as Lego getting involved in higher education would have been scoffed at by Danish academics. Private universities are not currently permitted, and public ones cannot charge tuition fees. However, the country's government is preparing a change to the law to allow private universities, and its academics are hacked off.
Private colleges are spending more on grant aid than ever before, according to the results of a survey released on Wednesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. After years of stability, the average tuition-discount rate for full-time freshmen entering college in the fall of 2008 rose to 41.8 percent, up from 39.1 percent in the previous academic year.
In a state where higher education is dominated by flagships and football, Southwestern University is a bit of an outlier. Just about 30 minutes away from the University of Texas at Austin, it has only 1,300 students, all of them undergraduates. Football there is intramural—and flag.
More than a dozen private colleges have had their credit ratings downgraded since the start of 2010, most of them tuition-dependent, less-than-selective institutions facing the challenge of attracting students in a bad economy and a competitive market.
The article discusses the results of an econometric analysis report "Students Choosing Colleges: Understanding the Matriculation Decision at a Highly Selective Private Institution" by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research.
Stanley H. Kaplan started his tutoring business in the basement of his parents’ Brooklyn home in 1938. As standardized tests became a bigger fixture of American education, his company became a national operation, preparing millions of students for the SAT, LSAT, MCATs and other tests.
The number of college students who defaulted on their federal student loans climbed in the fiscal year that ended in September 2008, according to new government data released Monday.
One of the world's largest owners of for-profit colleges has bought East San Jose's National Hispanic University, throwing the idealistic but struggling campus into the growing and controversial world of corporate education.
The Bombay High Court, on Tuesday, asked the state government what it proposed to do to ensure seats in private medical colleges were not blocked in the name of students already admitted in government medical colleges. These seats ended up being filled through management quotas of the private colleges.
Students in self-financing universities and colleges may soon be eligible for a large number of University Grants Commission (UGC) fellowships and scholarships that at present are open only to students from institutions receiving government grants. The UGC has proposed allowing students from private universities benefits like the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and the Post Graduate Merit Scholarship, top government officials revealed.
Students may have to give two common entrance tests (CET) next year if private engineering colleges have their way. Members of the Maharashtra Association of Engineering Colleges (MAEC) have proposed conducting a separate entrance test apart from the MH-CET conducted by the state government. Association members met state higher education minister Rajesh Tope earlier this week to discuss the proposal.
Police officials in Rajasthan illegally sell unidentified corpses to private medical colleges for Rs. 5-7 lakh each, an RTI application by a businessman in Jaipur has revealed. Raj Kumar Soni’s son Rahul was allegedly murdered last year in Sriganganagar district, 500 km from Jaipur.
Nearly a fifth of Australian private colleges are "permanent residency factories", a new report in the education sector has revealed. The education sector, which is the country's third largest export industry, has been affected by a string of assaults on international students, particularly Indians. The claims of exploitation of overseas students have also not helped matters.
Mildred Elley, a two-year proprietary college that opened its doors in Albany, N.Y., in 1917, prides itself on helping people get back to work. But Faith A. Takes, the college's owner and president, fears that a new federal proposal that would evaluate for-profit colleges by comparing their students' borrowing to their graduates' earnings will jeopardize her college's high-demand nursing, medical-assisting, and information-technology programs at the very time more adults are turning to the institution for training.
The Albion College Board of Trustees has agreed to reduce its faculty by the equivalent of 15 full-time positions, despite objections from the American Association of University Professors over how the college has handled the move.
PBS broadcast a documentary on for-profit higher education last week, titled College, Inc. It begins with the slightly ridiculous figure of Michael Clifford, a former cocaine abuser turned born-again Christian who never went to college, yet makes a living padding around the lawn of his oceanside home wearing sandals and loose-fitting print shirts, buying up distressed non-profit colleges and turning them into for-profit money machines.
Laura L. Anglin, president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, in New York, describes the budget troubles facing New York's private institutions—and makes the case for how those institutions can bolster the state's economic competitiveness.
By now, practically everyone in Iran has become aware of the long-simmering battle between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his rivals over the control and status of Azad University (AU). Since the day he took office, Ahmadinejad has covetously eyed the holdings of the largest private university chain in Iran -- and possibly the world. With an enrollment of 1.3 million students, 351 campuses, and more than $200 billion in known assets, there are few institutions in its league. By comparison, Harvard University's assets are estimated at $43.8 billion; the University of California system's, $60 billion.
Nonprofit colleges in financial trouble have options other than merging, shutting down, or, as was the case for institutions like the College of Santa Fe and Daniel Webster, Kendall, and Waldorf Colleges, selling themselves to for-profit higher-education companies.
Quite co-incidentally - or was it? - Danish corporation Lego announced it had advanced plans to establish a private university. Lego admitted to having discussed the idea with the minister on several occasions.
However, such programs could be hit hard by the proposed law, which would cap government support to subsidized private institutions such as Loja. The university, which has some 22,000 students, was founded in the 1970s during a government campaign to expand access to higher education in provincial areas.
The trustees of financially struggling Lambuth University, in Tennessee, have tentatively approved an investment firm's offer to acquire the private institution, the university has announced.
The company's foundation aims to help first-generation students graduate in two ways: through small private colleges and via minority-serving institutions.
Marc Bousquet, who blogs for The Chronicle of Higher Education, worries in his latest post that the harsh federal spotlight currently illuminating the excesses of for-profit colleges is missing similar problems at nonprofit institutions.
Especially alarming were the numbers for two-year and for-profit colleges, with 40 percent of students who borrowed loans to attend for-profit institutions defaulting since 1995. This data comes just when for-profit colleges are being subjected to federal scrutiny in part because of the amount of federal financial aid they draw and the amount they spend on expenses other than teaching. “While for-profits educate less than 10 percent of students, those colleges’ students received close to a quarter of Pell Grant and federal-student-loan dollars in 2008,” according to the Chronicle article.
El Viceministerio de Educación Superior realizará “visitas sorpresas” a las universidades privadas de todo el país, para verificar el cumplimiento de condiciones técnico académicas requeridas para su funcionamiento.Los equipos de seguimiento que realizan estas verificaciones, serán fortalecidos a partir de esta gestión, pues se tienen previsto efectuar evaluaciones periódicas a estas casas de estudios superiores, informó el director general de Educación Superior, Juan Carlos Carrasco Paniagua. Señaló que el Viceministerio debe ver las condiciones técnico-pedagógicas, de infraestructura y la organización de documentos, establecido en reglamento de funcionamiento de universidades.
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