Over the past 60 years a great sea change has occurred in the field of education. In 1950, education, whether in schools, technical colleges or universities, was effectively a state monopoly. Yes, there were Catholic schools and a few Protestant ones, but these two functioned as sidekicks of the great public education system.
The financial crisis that began last year has shaken higher-education systems throughout the nine states in the Northeast, totting budget cuts on public universities and shrinking the endowments of the region's many private colleges.
California's public higher education crisis has a flip side: swelling enrollment, expanding faculty, and state-of-the-art construction at the state's private colleges and universities.
Amid all the concerns about affordability, value and consumer preference in the higher education arena today, some good news has surfaced that should give private colleges and universities optimism heading into the fall prospective-student visitation season.
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.
Already under constant fire from Capitol Hill Democrats screaming for tighter regulations, the for-profit college sector now has bigger problems on its hands.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Bridgepoint Education Inc. over the compensation of admissions staff members, the company announced Monday in a corporate filing. The for-profit is also facing a serious accreditation challenge for its Ashford University, which is scrambling to retain regional accreditation.
PRESS statements by higher education minister Blade Nzimande confirm his eagerness to address issues in the public higher education arena. But what about the private education sector?
With a target of 75,000 foreign students registering at private institutions of higher learning by next year, the Higher Education Ministry has been talking with providers on ways to make Malaysia a regional hub of excellence, writes KOH SOO LING.
Presidents of a number of colleges vowed in November to take a pay cut or otherwise give back part of their earnings as a way to help buffer their schools against the struggling economy.
Dozens of private colleges across the country are trying similar cuts. Higher education experts say that could signal a change in how colleges set prices and disburse financial aid.
Although private non-profit colleges and universities have a long and distinguished history throughout the world, what has come to be known as ‘for-profit higher education’ is a relative newcomer.
Regent University, a private, nonprofit school in Virginia, said in a statement it will reduce tuition for its MBA program by 24 percent and online undergraduate by 20 percent. Tuition for several other programs will receive smaller cuts.
State Education Minister Ramanlal Vora moved the Gujarat Private Universities Bill, 2009, seeking to set up private universities, in the Legislative Assembly here on Thursday.
The presidents of the nation’s major private research universities were paid a median compensation of $627,750 in the 2007-8 fiscal year — a 5.5 percent increase from the previous year — according to The Chronicle of Higher Education annual executive compensation survey.
In a state where higher education is dominated by flagships and football, Southwestern University is a bit of an outlier. Just about 30 minutes away from the University of Texas at Austin, it has only 1,300 students, all of them undergraduates. Football there is intramural—and flag.
The article profiles the private college Interdisciplinary Center, which is located in Israel and attracts donors and scholars from around the world. The center is the country's first private college, and offers competition to Israel's seven publicly financed major universities. The school has developed a stellar reputation among students and scholars because of its commitment to interdisciplinary work and community involvement.
Private medical college business has become the easiest way to make money. These institutions running without required faculty or training facilities are recovering millions of rupees from parents in the name of medical education but producing half-backed doctors, not educated or trained as per the needs of market, said senior healthcare expert and ex-member of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Dr Shershah Syed here Thursday.
Nine foreign universities that had agreed to set up engineering schools in Pakistan — with their own faculties and administrators — have now decided not to do so because they are leery of the worsening security situation and political uncertainty in the country, a daily newspaper in Pakistan reported, citing an unnamed spokesman of President Pervez Musharraf.
A new university bill will turn higher education into a business enterprise, according to protesting students. In turn government claims that the bill is radically different from that originally composed three years ago and leaves no room for such fears. The bill deals with funding for only the public sector, whereas management provisions deal with both sectors.
The human resource development (HRD) ministry may allow private players to set up universities instead of going through the "deemed to be university" route. The ministry will also push for firm regulations which would demand transparency and accountability of the players in the education sector.
The operators of Kwansei Gakuin University and Seiwa College, both in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, plan to merge in spring 2008, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Wednesday.
The government will allow the private sector to set up medical colleges in backward states, hilly areas and the northeast region, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Monday. "We will allow the private sector to set up medical colleges in backward states, hilly areas and the northeastern region," Azad said here at a healthcare meet organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), an industry lobby.
The government has drawn up a draft law giving itself the power to decide three-fourths of all admissions in private educational institutions, determine their fee structures, and impose government reservation policies on them. It will decide which professional college a student will study in, based on a list of multiple preferences. There will be no ‘domicile criterion’ in admissions.
Against the backdrop of a forceful appeal made by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra Government on Wednesday decided to restore reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs in vocational courses of private educational institutions in the state. NCP, a constituent of the DF government in the state along with Congress, expressed satisfaction with the decision after it was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet in Mumbai.
Shengda College in central China has a diverse curriculum, foreign faculty members to teach English and a manicured campus, where weeping willows shade a recreational lake.
Many Japanese private institutions, including half the junior colleges (which cater heavily to women), have lost money in the last two years. Causes include decreasing overall enrollments stemming from a falling birth rate, economic recession, and an increase in the number of new institutions. Some of the troubled private institutions have had to shut down. Others pursue policy to avoid this fate. Cost cutting falls heavily on staff. Measures to make institutions more attractive often center on attracting nontraditional students--businesspeople, homemakers, and retirees.
NEARLY 1005 students, who have cleared B.Ed entrance examination conducted by the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), have become the victim of the ongoing tussle among the management of the various private colleges running the B.Ed courses. They could not get admission till date.
Last year, leading lights in for-profit and nonprofit higher education convened in Washington for a conference on private-sector innovation in the industry. The national conversation about dysfunction and disruption in higher education was just heating up, and panelists from start-ups, banking, government, and education waxed enthusiastic about the ways that a traditional college education could be torn down and rebuilt—and about how lots of money could be made along the way.
China's National People's Congress approved a new law in December 2002 that promotes Chinese private education development, including at the higher education level. It gives private institutions privileges and favorable policies enjoyed by their public counterparts, including tax and other financial benefits.
MIT received a pledge for $350 million yesterday to create a new institute on brain research, the largest single gift to a university ever. The institute will focus on the way humans learn and communicate.
South Korea's ministry of education has ordered three private institutions to turn over $15.3-million and dismiss 68 professors and officials due to bribery, and mishandling of funds. The ministry has withheld approval for one board of trustees and replaced another's.
India's Supreme Court quashed a provision of a state law this month that allowed the establishment of private universities in the State of Chhattisgarh, in central India. The court called the three-year-old provision "unconstitutional" and canceled the registrations of all 108 private universities in the state, Some 20,000 students are enrolled in the institutions.
A class-action lawsuit filed against ITT Educational Services last month accuses the company of issuing "materially false and misleading" quarterly reports that defrauded investors.
For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. The for-profit educational sector is composed of a diverse set of colleges, but most of the literature neatly ignores this.
Laureate Education Inc, a for-profit higher education provider that boasts former U.S. President Bill Clinton as honorary chancellor, is planning to launch an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
While a handful of elite private institutions -- mostly liberal arts colleges -- with no shortage of demand and strong financial positions recently made headlines by announcing tuition freezes or increases close to or at inflation for the 2012-13 academic year, some of the most selective private universities are increasing their sticker price by almost 5 percent, which for many is the largest increase since the 2008 recession began.
A new study has revealed that UAE Nationals aged between 18 and 30 are split down the middle when choosing to pursue higher education in either a private or a federal university.
Private universities are opposed to a proposal to scrap the 8-4-4- system as recommended by the task force on the re-alignment of the education sector.
On leave from the government department of Georgetown University, Joshua Mitchell, acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, talks about the challenges of starting a private university in a country damaged by years of war. He also shares the special pitch he gives prospective faculty members.
Flagging public confidence in private colleges led Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training to announce a series of measures last week to raise the standards of private higher education.
As the founder of KIIT University, a top private institution here, Achuyta Samanta has built an institution that occupies dozens of buildings across 350 acres of plush land. Yet he has no office.
In a far-reaching opinion, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that graduate teaching assistants are employees eligible to seek collective-bargaining rights. The decision gives T.A.'s at private colleges across...
The head of Britain's first for-profit university college was paid £738,000 ($1,177,000) in one year, while the co-chief executive officer of the firm’s U.S. owner has a long-term pay deal valued at £15.8 million ($25.2 million).
A German-born Swiss businessman has pledged to give more than $250-million over the next five years to a private university in the city of Bremen, in northern Germany. The donation is the largest...
The establishment of a new private liberal-arts college in London, which was announced to widespread media coverage on Sunday, appears to have already hit several significant hurdles. A.C. Grayling, a well-known philosopher and the driving force behind the New College of the Humanities, had said in an introduction to the institution posted on its Web site that its students would have access to many resources at the University of London, including its libraries. However, in a statement, the University of London said that there was “no formal agreement between the University of London and the NCH concerning academic matters” and that there was not yet any agreement “regarding access to the Senate House Libraries by NCH students.”
The lower revenue expected by a "significant minority" of such colleges could hurt their future financial strength, says a Moody's Investors Service report.
Few patterns emerge -- except that few institutions will forgo increases With much fanfare, Williams College announced last year that for the first time in half a century, it would not raise...
During the past two decades, public outcry over rising college prices at selective private colleges has escalated. Although since 1995 tuition has not risen relative to median family income, the...
Four-year private institutions spent about $2,073 to recruit each new student in 2005, more than four times what four-year public institutions spent and 28 times what two-year public colleges spent...
A new report from Moody's Investors Service may seem like a time warp to better days. The report, which tracks the financial picture at colleges in the fiscal year that ended in June 2007, shows...
Gaps in faculty pay between private and public colleges and universities continue to widen, warned the American Association of University Professors in its annual report on the economic status of...
A private university in Belarus is suspending its operations after being given two weeks to vacate its main building by the government, which in July mounted a crippling assault on the defiant 11-year-old institution.
Long before the Chinese government began in earnest to reform the country's vocational-education system, a thriving private market provided many students with the technical training needed to get...
In legislation that Republican Congressional leaders introduced in May to extend the law that governs most federal-student aid programs, for-profit colleges came out on top.
Rosemir Soares always wanted to go to university but could never afford the fees. Then she discovered Prouni, a scholarship program of the Brazilian government that has guaranteed a college education for more than one million low-income students since it began, in 2005.
For-profit higher education has continued to grow at a pace that once seemed unsustainable, thanks to an influx of capital, a favorable regulatory climate, and the industry's own nimble reaction to the changing demands of students.
The Education Department of the State of New York is clamping down on a fast-growing for-profit college that specializes in recruiting financially needy students who haven't graduated from high school.
Apollo Group, the company that built the University of Phoenix into the largest university in the United States by catering to working adults, is now moving to serve younger college students.
In the two months since federal agents brandishing search warrants and grand-jury subpoenas swarmed ITT Educational Services' Indianapolis headquarters and 10 of its campuses, anxieties have been running high in for-profit higher education.
But ultimately it is the huge private sector, which caters to about 80 percent of Korean students, where the pain is likely to be felt most—and the private providers are already under scrutiny. Some are exaggerating their number of students, covering up financial problems, and hiking student fees to unacceptable levels, says Ms. Yu. "Some are paying professors lower salaries than for primary schoolteachers."
Are graduate students who work as teaching assistants and research assistants at private universities entitled to collective bargaining? The answer depends on whether these graduate student employees should be seen primarily as students or employees, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed.
Recognizing the increasing role of non-profit organizations in today's economy, Indiana University is poised to launch the nation's first School of Philanthropy.
Private universities play a critical role in advancing the higher education goals of Africa, as the world’s least developed continent grapples with a burgeoning youth population seeking quality, globally competitive skills, a pan-African forum held in Ethiopia agreed.
TAMPA, Fla. -- For-profit colleges are booming. But a new fight between these upstarts and the education establishment raises a key question: How much are degrees from for-profits really worth?
In an effort to broaden the spectrum of higher education, the state government is set to rope in private players and impart quality education at the university level. The effort of the Trinamool government is seen as a step ahead of the erstwhile government's decision to set up a private technical institute of higher learning, like the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication at Kalyani, which didn't materialize.
A watchdog official at the U.S. Education Department last week urged lawmakers to "go slowly" on proposed legislation that would relax some rules that for-profit colleges must follow to participate in federal student-aid programs.
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has devised a new classification system to measure the performance and characteristics of for-profit colleges and universities.