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.
Private colleges, particularly some in urban areas, are likely to be hurt the most by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to a report released Thursday by...
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
A regional official of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that professors at Sacred Heart University, a Roman Catholic institution in Connecticut, are managerial employees and...
Two gleaming new campuses have gone up on either side of the Bosporus strait, which separates Europe from Asia. Koç University and Sabanci University, supported by Turkey's...
Dozens of private colleges and universities here -- seeking to cut costs -- will form a holding company that will take over many of their administrative operations.
Part-time professors at Emerson College, in Boston, have voted overwhelmingly to unionize -- one of the first such moves by part-timers at private colleges in the Northeast.
Oman's first private institution of higher learning will open this month, the government has announced. Sohar University, which is named for and located in Oman's second-largest city, will offer...
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...
Sometimes a university's best efforts to work with local public schools can hit obstacles -- just ask the University of Hartford. It took officials there a decade to negotiate the political and...
Malaysia's education minister, Musa Mohamed, has announced that the country's laws requiring public universities to abide by an ethnic-quota system in their selection of students may be extended...
A private online university based in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island does not meet national academic standards and should not be granted formal recognition, a report from the Australian...
Tokyo Students in Japan will be able to apply to Japanese universities via the Internet next year when an association of 120 private universities introduces an experimental online-application...
Daniel Fischel has resigned as dean of the University of Chicago law school in the midst of a controversy over his romantic relationship with an associate dean.
The House of Representatives has unanimously given its final approval to legislation that would allow an elite group of private colleges to discuss their financial-aid policies with one another...
Students at Harvard University ended a 20-day sit-in this month with a promise by the university to form a committee. Dozens of members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over an...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Two universities -- one public, one private -- in different states are creating a new bioengineering school that will award joint master's and doctoral degrees from...
Despite efforts to stave off financial troubles, New Hampshire's Notre Dame College will close at the end of the academic year, a victim of falling enrollment. The Board of Trustees of the Roman...
Getting accepted by an elite private college means everything to some high-school seniors. So they study hard, figuring that their grades and test scores will be scrutinized by tough admissions...
For-profit, degree-granting institutions have grown at a significantly faster rate than their nonprofit counterparts, according to a report released in July by the Education Commission of the State...
Private institutions offer more, and the gap is becoming unbridgeable You're a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It's a prestigious university with big-time resources and...
Catherine Wannier always felt that she'd attend one of Argentina's public universities. What attracted her wasn't only the prestige of national institutions like the University of Buenos Aires...
A South Carolina textile tycoon who died last month willed Furman University 45 percent of the revenues from his estate, but neither the amount of the gift nor its date of arrival is known...
The distance-learning company eCollege said last month that it would lay off approximately 35 of its 330 employees. The company provides consulting, courseware, and other services to colleges that...
It is not too often that a private nonprofit university buys a for-profit educational institution. But that is what is happening in California. National University has announced plans to purchase...
"Legal Education in Germany Faces Iconoclastic Competitor" (June 1) indicated the fulfillment of a wish I heard about in the fall of 1964. At that time, I was a
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has signed a decree legalizing private colleges and universities. The decree could pave the way for American colleges to open branches in the country.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has signed a decree legalizing private colleges and universities. The decree could pave the way for American colleges to open branches in the country.
The upheaval in Florida's higher-education system has attracted no shortage of unflattering media attention in recent months. Now, Florida's university presidents are receiving bad press for...
Their degrees are not recognized, but they remain popular with students Many scholars think of Greece as the ancient birthplace of higher learning, where Plato's academy thrived
The gaps between the average salaries of professors at public and at private institutions, and between tenured and nontenured faculty members, continue to widen -- even as the percentage...
Nigeria's government recently approved four new private universities, demonstrating an apparent shift in support for private higher education. Only three others have been approved in the eight
Students and professors in New Delhi took to the streets last month, protesting what they say are the government's efforts to privatize higher education. The battle lines have been drawn over what...
London Britain's Conservative Party is making reform of higher-education financing a centerpiece of its new platform, which promises $12-billion in spending cuts.
Two nontraditional institutions, Union Institute and Vermont College, are merging. Union, which is based in Cincinnati, will assume control of Vermont College's campus, in Montpelier.
The protests of some private Pittsburgh-area colleges are not going to be enough to stop scrappy for-profit Potomac College from entering the market. After considering the...
The government of Malaysia has approved long-stalled plans by an organization representing the country's Chinese residents to establish its own private university.
New York University on Thursday became the first private university to formally recognize the collective-bargaining rights of teaching assistants. N.Y.U.'s announcement that it would begin...
The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase spending on Pell Grants and to give the same federal tax advantages to tuition-savings plans for private colleges that...
The stagnant economy has yet to hurt most private colleges, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, although average endowment values apparently decreased during the past year.