Education firms Anhanguera Educacional Participacoes SA and Kroton Educacional SA were added to Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa stock index for the period between Sept. 2 of this year and Jan. 3, 2014, exchange operator BM&FBovespa said on Monday.
La puesta en marcha de la Universidad Europea de Canarias (UEC) en el municipio tinerfeño de La Orotava, que comenzó a impartir clases el curso pasado en un emplazamiento provisional, ha abierto el camino a otros proyectos de estudios superiores de carácter privado que ya están tomando forma con nombres y apellidos. Actualmente, se tramita la implantación de otras dos universidades privadas en el Archipiélago, la Fernando Pessoa y la Universidad Internacional de Canarias, vinculada en este caso a la escuela de negocios Escoex. Las dos instalaciones estarán localizadas en la isla de Gran Canaria.
El nuevo curso académico está a punto de arrancar. Y lo hace con importantes novedades en la educación superior. La provincia se ha convertido en el objetivo en el que han puesto el ojo diferentes instituciones universitarias privadas en expansión. Una oferta que vendría a completar el abanico de grados, posgrados y másters que ya imparte la Universidad de Málaga (UMA), institución pública que cuenta con más de medio centenar de titulaciones propias y con más de 4.000 egresados cada curso.
Dos de las tres universidades privadas de la Comunitat Valenciana han apostado decididamente por la Formación Profesional ante la creciente demanda de este tipo de enseñanza. La delantera la ha tomado la Universidad Europea de Valencia, que ha abierto en la capital del Turia un Centro Profesional Europeo que ya este mismo curso 2013/2014 impartirá tres ciclos de Grado Superior de FP: Técnico Superior en Comercio Internacional, Técnico Superior en Gestión Comercial y Marketing y Técnico Superior en Higiene Bucodental.
At least seven new private universities with reported links to the ruling party are awaiting approval as the present government nears the end of its term, despite claims that most of the existing higher education institutions in the private sector are underperforming and struggling to attract students.
Private providers are the subject of heated debate in the UK higher education sector. It's in this context that QAA (the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education) carried out 'educational oversight' reviews of 209 private colleges over the course of 2012. Overall, our review judged 86% of them to be providing a quality student experience, publishing honest and accurate information, and delivering courses that meet the academic standards laid down by their awarding organisations
State Rep. Leon Stavrinakis says quality and affordability are the two main goals for South Carolina’s higher-education institutions, and the company poised to buy the Charleston School of Law doesn’t appear to strive to meet either.
Grand Canyon University was bustling with activity on the second day of classes last week, with an on-campus student population now approaching 8,500, new dormitories and an athletic program ready to launch its first year in NCAA Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
For-profit schools — which include the University of Phoenix, DeVry University and Strayer University — began booming in the 1990s after changes in state and federal regulations made it possible for them to open campuses across the country and online.
Students of tertiary institutions under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday staged a protest in Ado- Ekiti against the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
A drop in tuition at nearby private universities has led to increasing enrollment patterns, whereas state-owned universities are hiking tuition prices while experiencing smaller enrollments.
A day after Nagpur University cleared the alleged 'illegal' proposal of partial 'carry on', academicians associated with it slammed the administration led by vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal for bowing down to private engineering colleges and diluting academic standards of university. They said never in history of any university such a rule was made where students were granted admissions but not allowed to appear in exams. Some plan to move to the judiciary against this decision.
Generous tuition discounts and aggressive recruitment campaigns are netting record freshman enrollments at some private universities in Western Pennsylvania while lower-cost, state-owned universities struggle.
University students in Ekiti State, on Thursday, threatened to vent their anger over the lingering impasse between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the private universities ina the country.
U.S. private colleges and universities largely fall into two categories: those with diverse revenue streams supplemented by robust research, healthcare and fundraising, and those highly dependent on student-generated revenues, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.
A student union in Sri Lanka says the students' movements in the country would oppose moves by the government to re-introduce the private universities bill.
I have spent the last couple of months acquainting myself with the goings on in our private universities. The (recent) and still unresolved strike by academic staff in our public universities, and government's pussyfooting over the lecturers' gravamen ensures that public universities have fallen off the radar of most parents/guardians looking to advance their children/wards' education.