La carrera emprendida por tres universidades privadas para implantarse en Málaga tiene por el momento un claro ganador: la Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM). Frente a las todavía intenciones de la Católica de Murcia y la Loyola Andalucía para abrir campus en la capital, la UEM ya tiene avanzados los trámites para ello ante la Junta de Andalucía hasta el punto de que, según pudo conocer este periódico, ya se han resuelto los reparos que inicialmente puso la Administración regional al proyecto presentado para abrir en Málaga la que sería la Universidad Europea de Andalucía.
Los precios de matrícula en la universidad pública madrileña han aumentado siete veces más que los de la privada, según un estudio de la Federación de Usuarios Consumidores Independientes (FUCI) de la Comunidad.
El ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, José Ignacio Wert, ha asegurado durante la sesión de control al Gobierno en el Congreso, que su política haya mermado el número de estudiantes universitarios el curso pasado y ha afirmado que esta "ligera" reducción se ha dado en la privada y no en la pública.
De la misma manera que había hecho antes Casares, aseguró que el funcionamiento actual de las universidades privadas no es el idóneo y se debe corregir para evitar que sean estrictamente negocios para ganar dinero.
The amount of private donations being handed to UK universities is growing faster than in the US - and is being driven by Cambridge and Oxford, a study has found.
University of Indianapolis announced on Wednesday that it was no longer accepting new students to Indianapolis Athens College for the summer summer and that all undergraduate courses and most graduate courses would stop on August 31
Regent's College is to become the UK's largest private university, after the business department BIS confirmed that it met the criteria for university title.
Portugal’s private University Fernando Pessoa, or UFP, is planning to set up a second branch in France – despite a complaint filed last year by French Higher Education Minister Geneviève Fioraso that installation of its first university centre in France was against the law.
Private universities and colleges will be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of students able to claim subsidised loans of up to £6,000 for another year, the Government has said.
London Metropolitan University lost £2 million after a partnership with a private college collapsed, it has emerged, and as recently as last month was seeking more than £750,000 in a continuing dispute with the institution.
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
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.
La Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera se sitúa a la cabeza de las 23 universidades privadas españolas, según diversos rankings internacionales que evalúan la calidad de la investigación científica de las universidades.
Regent's College in London will become the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London, writes Richard Adams for the Guardian.
The leading lights of the for-profit higher education sector might be unfairly stereotyped as hard-nosed types. Meanwhile, people from Yorkshire have been unfairly stereotyped as keeping a particularly tight rein on their finances.
With most of the country still complaining about university fees being raised to £9,000 a year, it’s easy to forget that a small group of teenagers chose to pay double that by enrolling at A C Grayling’s elite start up, the New College of the Humanities (NCH), last October.
The government is set to decide whether to make BPP a university, creating the UK’s second for-profit institution with the title, just as its US parent company faces “adverse impact” from a sanction against one of its other institutions.
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