The British government's apparent move to suspend the higher education bill will not automatically derail the expansion of private provision, according to government critics and leading private institutions.
Chile’s Ministry of Education has launched a web portal offering with unprecedented detail employment and earnings data to prospective applicants to higher education. The portal, called “Mi futuro” is a searchable database that lists hundreds of degree programs, professional and technical, from Medicine to Auto Mechanic, displaying for each program of every institution of higher education in the country the following information: drop-out rate, average time to degree, average earnings of the graduates after 4 years of graduation, current tuition fees for the program, and accreditation status of the program.
Thousands of protesting students have been evicted from the campus of one of Sri Lanka's main universities following a court order. The evictions at the Sri Jayawardenepura campus comes amid disputes between students who have been protesting for days and the government. Students accuse the government of interfering in their lives. A senior opposition figure has said that Sri Lanka's entire education system is in a state of collapse. Despite the arrests of many student leaders last year, and their still pending trials, college unrest has returned on a large scale causing major disruption. At the root of the unrest lie numerous disputes between student activists and the government. Above all the activists' oppose plans for private colleges, which they say will end young Sri Lankans' entitlement to free higher education. They blame both university officials and the government for interfering in their lives - for allegedly subjecting some women students to virginity tests ...
The UK government is poised to smooth the passage for private investment in higher education, creating an opportunity for private equity investors to make a mark on the sector
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