The race for that coveted post-graduate medical seat in Karnataka just got tougher. Two years ago, a PG seat in orthopedics in a prestigious private medical college in Bangalore cost Rs 1 crore. This year, it has touched Rs 2 crore. The price of an MD (Radiology) seat available for Rs 2 crore last year is likely to go up to Rs 2.75 crore this year.
The President of the Central University College and the newly elected Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Private Universities in Ghana, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has emphasised the significance of private universities in national development.
Another private university in Meghalaya, the Mahatma Gandhi University, is under the scanner of the state government after complaints were received about its functioning, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said today.
In a keen desire to make Uttarakhand an education hub and thereby allowing the mushrooming of private Universities, by giving them permission to open their campuses, the successive state governments have inadvertently made Dehra Dun, where most of these Universities are located a drug and booze capital.
A private Indian university has been barred from recruiting Ghanaian students for its distance learning programmes since it is not accredited in this country. The university is under a cloud back home with a federal probe likely into its affairs - particularly the awarding of an extraordinarily high number of degrees - and its chancellor-promoter is on the run.
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a list of private universities not recognised by HEC, warning students and their parents to ensure the status of the university or institute from the website of the commission before seeking admission.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has set up a Liaison Committee to monitor and coordinate activities of its affiliate private universities to help maintain high academic standards, the Vice Chancellor, Professor William Otoo Ellis, has announced.
Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary has directed the state government to probe the private Mahatma Gandhi University after complaints were received about its functioning.
According to recent surveys by the Chronicle of Higher Education, 35 private university presidents and 4 public university presidents topped $1 million in total earnings during the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Armenia’s Ministry of Education and Science is to inspect the private universities starting from the next week. The inspection is to check whether the universities comply with new law “On licensing”, Minister Armen Ashotyan said Wednesday.
After scanning for laws in states across the country that allow illegal institutes of higher education to be prosecuted, with no success, the Goa government has sat down to formulate its own regulation that will punish those offering higher education courses without approvals from bodies like the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, last Wednesday in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, said that in some local private higher education institutions there are serious concerns about their functioning and organisation, which need to be dealt with in due time.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, on Wednesday in Lubango City, Huila Province, said that infrastructures related to private higher education institutions must be adjusted to the functioning of the public ones, aimed for a quality academic training.
It is high school graduation season. Many of the new grads are among the 1 million people who will walk into a so-called "for-profit school" like Sanford Brown. As NewsChannel 5 I-Team reporter Farrah Fazal discovered, they may walk out with a piece of paper that is worthless.
The fee structure for new private colleges offering technical courses has been finalized by the state government's fee regulatory committee (technical). The ad hoc fee for degree engineering course in these colleges has been fixed at Rs 49,000 per annum. However, this fee structure is ad-hoc and subject to revision next year, when it will be regularized.