On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's offices sent out a news release that declared, "Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs."
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
“Private universities in Dubai recorded a 12 per cent increase in student enrolment in the last year, part of an 11 per cent increase in higher education enrollment as a whole,” said Dr Abdulla Al Karam, director general of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), in a 2013 report on Dubai’s higher education sector.
The for-profit education industry is becoming a contrarian hotbed after the Department of Education's initial round of rule-making for the industry was not as strict as many investors had anticipated. However, the companies' reliance on Title IV funding is sure to sink them in the long run.
Fewer students are paying the full sticker price at private nonprofit colleges than ever before, with the average freshman getting half of his or her tuition and fees covered by the school, according to a new study released Monday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The number of students committing to private colleges is declining due to tuition spikes. In order to keep their classrooms full, private schools are offering more financial assistance to students.
But in Augusta, it’s the for-profit private schools that are raking in taxpayer dollars, charging a tuition that in some cases is five times higher than the area’s larger public universities and colleges.
The 'Forum for Fairness in Education' has decided to file a contempt case against the state government for violating the apex court's order on private medical and dental college seats. The SC directive states that private medical and dental colleges have to surrender vacant seats to the government after the second round of admission. The government can allot these seats to meritorious candidates.
Private medical colleges in the state have threatened not to undertake fresh admissions unless fee is hiked for the block period 2013-2016 is carried out in a manner that is commensurate with the expenditure they are bearing on each student. Interestingly, the demand comes ahead of the engineering and medical admission exam (Eamcet) is slated to be held on May 10.
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
Faced with a growing number of families struggling to cover college costs, private colleges and universities are dispensing college scholarship awards at record levels.
Northwestern College will start going by a more accurate name this summer, its leaders say. The 110-year-old Christian school will become the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in July.
The result is that poorer families face a chasm between what they can afford and what they are being charged. Nine of 10 private colleges charge students whose families earn $30,000 or less a net price of more than $10,000; three of five charge those students more than $15,000.
A national study singled out the University of Miami for not giving enough financial aid to low-income students while shifting most of its scholarship dollars to high-achieving students with higher family incomes.
A Parliamentary panel has criticised the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its delay in examining whether private universities are functioning in accordance with the UGC Act.
The Ministry of Education is taking measures to close the private, Russian-language university ECOMEN, which it says has provided paid-for diplomas in both Estonia and the Czech Republic.