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.
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 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.
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...
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...
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 government of Malaysia has approved long-stalled plans by an organization representing the country's Chinese residents to establish its own private university.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...