The American University in Cairo has suspended classes because of student protests, reports the Egypt Independent. On Sunday students objecting to an annual 7-percent increase in tuition barricaded campus gates and blocked access for faculty members and fellow students, leading to heated confrontations.
When resources are limited, philanthropy isn't the best practice. Advocating this mantra, the Planning Commission has retained a suggestion to allow higher education institutions to run for profit in the final draft of the 12th Five-Year Plan.
Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman’s retirement next June along with departures of the heads at Yale University and Dartmouth College mark a generational shift in leadership in the Ivy League.
Those planning to set up private universities in the state will now have to follow a new mandatory condition - they will have to provide 50% of seats to students from Karnataka. Otherwise the state government will not provide them private university status.
The government will fix social responsibility and control private universities so that there will not be scope for monopoly, Ravi told mediapersons. He said seven institutions have applied for setting up private universities in the State.
Published tuition and fees at the nation’s private, nonprofit colleges and universities rose 3.9 percent for the 2012-13 academic year, the lowest rate in at least four decades, according to a survey by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). At the same time, institutional student aid budgets at private colleges increased an average of 6.2 percent for 2012-13.
Private colleges increased their tuition by an average of 3.9 percent in 2012-13, the smallest rise in four decades, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities announced Thursday.
For-profit universities in Brazil are benefiting as rising incomes and greater access to credit boost demand for higher education in Latin America’s largest economy, where fewer than 1 in every 10 Brazilians has a college degree.
The Washington Post Co.’s Kaplan higher-education division will close nine campuses and consolidate four others into existing nearby locations, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The company said it would stop new enrollments at the nine campuses it is closing, but that it would continue teaching the students currently enrolled there.
After more than a decade of phenomenal growth, private higher education institutions in China are beginning to face problems attracting students, with some colleges showing a significant drop in recruitment this year.
Resource constraints will make it difficult to meet the need of expanding higher education entirely through the public sector, hence private investments in higher education, including under PPP mode, would be encouraged," President Mukherjee said while addressing the fourth convocation of LNMU.
It’s what passes for good news on college costs these days: Private colleges and universities increased tuition 3.9 percent this fall, a rate well above overall inflation but the smallest increase in at least four decades, and substantially lower than prices have been rising at public universities.
As one of the major players in the Malaysian private higher-education institution sector, HELP International Corporation (HELP) which operates the HELP University is targeting to become a full-fledged private education provider in 2014.
Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake issuing a statement on the Supreme Court verdict which dismissed the Fundamental Rights petition filed against the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) said he was happy that the Malabe Private Medical College can now continue awarding degrees.
Tanzania has witnessed a significant growth of higher learning institutions since independence from one university in 60's to over 40 of them today. It is an undeniable fact that this development has been made possible by government policies to allow able private players to enter into providing higher learning education services especially from the late 1980's when Tanzania started embracing liberal policies.
The boom of private colleges and universities in the Czech Republic will be soon over as they have already fulfilled a high demand for degrees that politicians, policemen and other civil servants needed for their work, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes Wednesday.
Hawaii Pacific University has one of the worst graduation rates among private colleges and universities in the nation, with only 38.9 percent of students earning degrees within six years.
When the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulations of Entry and Operations) Bill was introduced in parliament in 2010, no less than 50 foreign universities showed interest in setting up operations in India. Two years down the line, their interest seems to have dwindled
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