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
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...
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...
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.
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.