In an unusual partnership, Thunderbird School of Global Management today announced it is forming a partnership with a for-profit educational provider, Laureate Education, to offer educational programs around the world.
The majority of institutions on the global version of the list are private universities in the U.S., including Ivy League colleges such as Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and Brown.
The company, which owns the University of Phoenix, and the Carlyle Group plan to invest up to $1-billion in education institutions and services abroad.
In nation after nation, the public monopoly on higher education is over As the world's hunger for higher education has outstripped the ability of many governments to pay for it, a type of
Transatlantic talks are going on between Princeton University and the University of Oxford about increasing their cooperation in the sciences. Oxford officials said the discussions between the two...
More than one in three students enrolled in higher education worldwide attends a private institution, and private universities are rapidly expanding their reach.
The group of Laureate Education Inc. managers and outside investors who are seeking to buy out the company and take it private have upped their $3.8-billion offer by $1.50 per share.
A new institution that aspires to be the largest and most ambitious private research university in continental Europe is being established in the German city of Bremen.
Lest anyone doubt that Asia holds promise for American higher-education companies, the chief executive of Laureate Education, who just engineered a $3.8-billion private-equity buyout of the company...
La red de universidades privadas Laureate International Universities presentó ayer al Govern el proyecto de crear la Universidad Europea de Mallorca en los terrenos de la urbanización Maioris de Llucmajor. Una iniciativa con una inversión de 25 millones de euros y que impartirá estudios de carácter internacional. Laureate International Universities cuenta con más de 60 centros universitarios en el mundo y en Mallorca está asociada con la empresa inmobiliaria Maioris. El Govern acogió con los brazos abiertos la iniciativa. No es un proyectos nuevo, ya que a finales de los año 90 ya se presentó en sociedad con los mismos accionistas. El campus universitario se ubicará en la urbanización de Maioris, situada en la costa de Llucmajor, muy cerca de Palma.
The privatisation of higher education has been advocated by governments as well as regional and international organisations as a way to fill the supply-demand gap left by the public sector, transfer the finance burden to higher education consumers – for example, students and industry – and increase the efficiency and relevance of higher education and the private returns to consumers.
Laureate Education is big. Like 800,000 students attending 78 institutions in 30 countries big. Yet the privately held for-profit university system has largely remained out of the public eye.
Jobs website SEEK is selling its stake in a private colleges firm to a multinational higher education group with ties to former US president Bill Clinton.
The Global Lung Cancer Therapeutics Market was worth $5.65 billion in 2016 and estimated to be growing at a CAGR of 6.7%, to reach $7.81 billion by 2021.
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