Florida’s Independent Colleges and Universities have reason to cheer Governor Rick Scott’s budget proposal. Scott wants to boost the dollar amount of grants Florida students receive to go into those institutions.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has broadened her investigation into recruiting and lending practices at for-profit colleges and trade schools, which critics say leave students with mountains of student loan debt, but often do not lead to decent-paying jobs.
In remarks to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Tuesday, a Republican Congresswoman used a Holocaust reference to suggest that private college leaders should have stood up to the Obama administration's regulation of for-profit colleges.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) rehashed the education portion of the GOP platform Tuesday, promoting for-profit colleges in a speech labeled a "rebranding" of the Republican Party.
“I am a Phoenix” is no more. The once-ubiquitous TV commercials touting student and faculty pride in the University of Phoenix have been replaced by a new ad campaign that its marketers hope will “project a hopeful, positive message for America.” It’s also designed to lay the ground for what one university executive called “a massive repositioning” of the institution.
Wisconsin is shaping up to be an important front in the battle over for-profit higher education, with a likely crackdown in Milwaukee and a brewing debate over tighter regulations at the state level.
Private college presidents head to Capitol Hill today to make the case for private higher education, hoping to maintain funding for federal student aid programs while slowing down what they see as an encroaching tide of new federal regulations.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has broadened her investigation into recruiting and lending practices at for-profit colleges and trade schools, which critics say leave students with mountains of student loan debt, but often do not lead to decent-paying jobs.
Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with little choice except to sue their graduates.
A US$150 million equity investment by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) into US-based for-profit education company Laureate Education will help spearhead a push into Africa, in line with World Bank aims to develop post-secondary education and skills training on the continent.
Malaysia has announced a two year moratorium on new private tertiary institutions with the aim to raise its status as an educational hub. “Highly rated” foreign campuses are exempt from the freeze.
Crandall University will not apply for $150,000 that it has received annually as it attempts to move away from an ongoing controversy over what some say are anti-gay policies, according to its president.
State government’s proposal to set up engineering colleges in the state with an aim to improve the quality of technical education for students with subsidised fees has come as jolt to private colleges in the state operating with poor infrastructure and inadequate teaching staff.
Open markets for training funds have crippled some commercial colleges, according to the peak body ACPET, which says governments need to consider the impacts of their policies on private as well as public providers.
Two years after he tried to slash a scholarship program for students who attend private colleges and universities, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy now wants to merge it with two other grant programs, leaving some higher education officials concerned.
Even as the Supreme Court's verdict on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical and dental courses is awaited, private colleges have started conducting their own entrance exams. Caught in the middle of the Centre versus state tussle are thousands of students who have no idea what the future holds for them.
Following the footsteps of private engineering colleges, private medical colleges have demanded a hike in the fees of under graduate medical course seats obtained through CET 2013.
The managements of private engineering colleges are of the view that arriving at an agreement with the government on the fee structure and seat sharing matrix for CET, 2013 will be difficult unless it considers hiking fees in private colleges.
Duke University has pushed back the opening of its campus in Kunshan, China, by another semester because of construction delays and communication problems, according to The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper.
Shares of for-profit education companies traded higher on Thursday after DeVry Inc. reported strong quarterly results and the federal government said the Pell Grant Program, which provides financial aid to low-income students, is in better financial shape than expected.
In remarks to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Tuesday, a Republican Congresswoman used a Holocaust reference to suggest that private college leaders should have stood up to the Obama administration's regulation of for-profit colleges.
Minister for Higher Education C.T. Ravi on Wednesday told the Legislative Assembly that all private universities in the State have to set aside 40 per cent of seats for students from Karnataka and follow the reservation system as per government orders.
Tabling of Private Universities Bill raised a furore in the legislative council on Thursday, with JD(S) leader M C Nanaiah alleging a ‘business deal’ was being struck, to allow setting up private universities in the state.
The Private Universities Students’ Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has appealed to the Ministry of Education, to integrate them into the administration of tertiary education in Ghana.
The Legislative Council on Tuesday gave its nod for setting up three more private universities in the State, CMR University, New Baldwin University and Presidency University.
Legislative council on Tuesday approved the establishment of three private universities in the state and of them all the three are located in Bangalore. Universities are, one will be started by C M R Janaradhana trust , second by Baldwin education society and the third by Presidency education society .
The bills which were passed in the Council in a matter of ten minutes, without any discussion, saw its members stage a walkout in protest against the government’s move. Though members in the Assembly did not staunchly oppose the bills, they did question the credentials of the varsities proposed to be set up.
Having opposed the setting up of private universities in Himachal Pradesh, claiming that in the name of universities, shops are being opened, the Congress party has finally succeeded in starting a government probe into the opening of such universities. Besides checking the records, revenue officials are conducting physical verification of these universities to find out the truth.
The government has undertaken to set up non-state universities through the Board of Investment (BoI), leaving aside the Higher Education Ministry only to standardize such academic institutions, officials said yesterday.
Both the Houses of the State Legislature adopted four more private university Bills on the last day of the budget session amid protest by the Opposition parties, who took exception to the indiscriminate and the hurried manner in which approvals were being granted to the private universities raising suspicion of involvement of “business interests”.
Students at newer private colleges in Georgia could qualify for a state tuition grant if their school offers a nursing program under legislation introduced in the House on Tuesday.
Students who attend schools that are members of the Independent Colleges of Indiana spoke with their local lawmakers at the Statehouse. ICI President Richard Ludwick says that if the Legislature boosts need-based state aid for students at public universities, as is being discussed, private colleges hope Indiana will continue its tradition of offering the same amount of need-based aid to students at their schools.
A case that started with a 19-year-old Elon University student's 2010 arrest for underage drinking and resisting an officer is forcing North Carolina's Supreme Court to decide whether campus police at private colleges must be as transparent as their municipal law enforcement peers.
When Albert Anarwat applied to the for-profit Aristotle University, in California, the Ghanaian student said he asked the university if the institution was accredited. Not only was he told yes, he said, but he also was told that if the university was not accredited, “How could they get a SEVIS number” – SEVIS being the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. In other words, if the institution was not accredited, how could it be approved to host international students?
A graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine publicly vowed on Monday to cut off future donations to the school based on disputed reports that it plans to train U.S. military personnel on new interrogation techniques using local immigrants as research subjects.
A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday rejected the claims of a former Lehigh University graduate student who filed a lawsuit seeking $1.3-million in damages over a C-plus grade. During the trial this week, the judge chastised both sides for letting the case get to court at all.
Jean-Lou Chameau, who has served as the California Institute of Technology’s president since 2006, will depart the institution later this year to become the next president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia, both institutions announced on Tuesday.
The new president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, Edward O. Blews Jr., spent 28 years lobbying for private colleges in Michigan, where he was known for his sunny disposition, savvy political strategizing, and knack for doggedly but respectfully buttonholing lawmakers to talk about grant aid for students.
H. Holden Thorp, whose chancellorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was upended last September by a string of controversies, will be the next provost of Washington University in St. Louis, officials there announced on Monday.
The state government has recommended the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) not to extend the approval of three engineering colleges in the state for the academic year 2013-'14.
Leaders at Grinnell College, one of the nation’s wealthiest private liberal arts colleges, are expected to vote today on a reduction of financial aid for students because of budget problems.
Eleven private dental colleges of Punjab have admitted 456 students to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course even though they had “not qualified” the 2012 Pre-Medical Entrance Test (PMET), according to a “most urgent” communication of the Dental Council of India (DCI).
Students earning an associate degree at the state’s technical colleges can transfer into 19 Georgia private colleges under an agreement signed Wednesday
We welcome the government's plan to set up an accreditation council which will independently review the academic standards of private universities. This will increase transparency of the institutions, allowing people to know university rankings and to ensure healthy competition among private educational institutions and quality education overall.
After the state legislative assembly passed a bill paving the way for a private university, Techno India University, last year, the state cabinet on January 19 approved proposals for setting up more private universities here.
Ignoring all rules and procedures, an influential federal minister belonging to a coalition party is using every tactic and exerting influence at all levels to ensure passage of a bill in the parliament to establish a private university in the federal capital city that would ultimately be own by himself, The News has learnt.
The State government, under fire for the hurried passing of Bills allowing over 15 private universities to be set up, has given them permission to acquire educational institutions, albeit with its prior approval.
Harvard University has the largest UHNW alumni population at 2,964. Harvard University is also alma mater to 52 billionaires, the highest count globally. Among the Public Universities, University of Virginia ranks the highest with 499 UHNW alumni.
Aggressive recruiting by some of the state's largest for-profit colleges is drawing scrutiny from the Minnesota attorney general, who contends that students, many of them veterans, can find themselves unable to repay federal loans, leaving taxpayers on the hook.
Regent's College is to take over the American InterContinental University London in what is thought to be the first UK acquisition of a for-profit by a not-for-profit higher education provider.
A group representing the much-maligned for-profit higher education industry released a report Wednesday outlining best practices for schools to follow, including tight oversight of recruiting, in-depth financial counseling for students, and tracking of veterans’ educational progress, among other proposals.
To become a knowledge economy in the true sense of the term our country needs many more quality higher education institutes (over and above the ones that already exist) in the private sector. This is because the government aided higher education colleges in the league of the IIT’s and IIM’s manage to accommodate only a very small percentage of meritorious candidates every year.
In a major breakthrough in the Maharshi Dayanand University answer sheet scam in Rohtak, the police on Tuesday nabbed two professors of private engineering colleges affiliated to the varsity.
After a former college journalist’s open records battle reached North Carolina’s highest court earlier this month, some private universities have asked state legislators to pass legislation before the court rules.
Officers and employees of aided private colleges in Madhya Pradesh will be given 101 percent dearness allowance, according to a press release here on Thursday
Private college administrators were concerned about an element in the bill that would require them to pay fees, including a $2,000 annual fee for every in-state private institution and $500 if a college wishes to modify its academic program.
The government’s decision to set up private universities through the Board of Investment has met with a positive response from several foreign universities wishing to invest capital and set up affiliated universities and colleges from leading universities abroad. Ten universities from the United Kingdom and India have already sought approval to set up such institutions.
The state government has decided to introduce a bill that would facilitate the setting up of private universities in Bihar, a move that would herald a new era in the higher education sector.
The state government is working on a Bill that will be presented in the state assembly for the framing of an Act to facilitate the opening of private universities in the state. It would be tabled in the state assembly during the current session itself, said education minister P K Shahi on Wednesday.
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.
Proposed legislation in the N.C. House may achieve what a pending case in the N.C. Supreme Court also seeks to accomplish — provide public access to police records at the state’s private colleges and universities.
The government's move to bring a Bill for facilitating the opening of private universities in the state has evoked mixed response among the academics. While some have reservations against the private sector investment in higher education, others are not opposed to the idea of opening private universities.
The Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) on Friday alleged that there was large-scale corruption in granting permission to establish over a dozen private universities in the State.
Speaking at a meeting to seek ways to save private universities, held with representatives from the Vietnam Private Universities Association (VIPUA) on March 5, the deputy minister said a number of universities would have to merge to improve their operations and meet enrollment quotas.
Instead of the present-day 66 private universities, Kazakhstan will have no more than 30, Science and Education Minister Bakytzhan Zhumagulov said February 26, according to KazTAG.
Prof. Francis Kofi Ampanyin Allotey is calling on government to support Private Universities in the country so they can help in producing the human resource base of the country.
In the run-up to Karnataka’s forthcoming assembly polls, the B S Yeddyurappa-led KJP has sought to put the ruling BJP on the defensive by alleging large-scale corruption in the Jagadish Shettar regime’s decision in favour of granting permission to establish over a dozen of private universities in the State.
La crisis en la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (CNA) ha sido clave para acrecentar la desconfianza de los jóvenes con un sistema que no garantiza la calidad de su educación. Todas las instituciones que han sido investigadas por acreditaciones fraudulentas y lucro han registrado bajas considerables en sus matrículas de primer año para 2013, al punto de que al menos 36 carreras se han cerrado por falta de interesados. CIPER recorrió las sedes en Santiago de cada una de esas instituciones y constató en terreno que, mientras la fiscalía y el Ministerio de Educación indagan las irregularidades, los jóvenes se muestran reticentes a inscribirse en establecimientos cuestionados.
A nivel de educación superior los centros privados obtienen menor calificación que los públicos, mientras que a nivel de primaria y secundaria la situación es distinta.
Veinticinco escuelas y colegios privados, y seis universidades privadas le adeudan un total de ¢222 millones a la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) por concepto de las cuotas obrero patronales.