Vatterott College, a Missouri-based company that operates 16 campuses in eight Midwestern states, has been sold to a private equity group that also owns the Lionel model-train company...
State grants to Texas students who choose to attend private universities have survived relatively unscathed, despite deep cuts in the state budget and plans by opponents to mount an offensive against the program.
The National Council for Higher Education has published a list of universities and other tertiary institutions and warned the public against enrolling in illegal institutions of learning.
The U.S. Education Corporation, a company formed by two private investment groups in 2002 with the goal of acquiring and operating for-profit colleges, has bought a 3,800-student college...
Many candidates wanting to run for office in University of Delhi's student elections hit a stumbling block late last month: The Indian institution insisted that those with political aspirations...
Angry parents and frustrated students clashed with police in Bombay this month after private medical schools tripled tuition, forcing the government to suspend the admissions process for the third...
The present academic year in India has experienced chaos following fee hikes, public demonstrations and staying of admissions in private medical colleges. Following the Supreme Court judgment in October 2002, some private medical colleges in Mumbai had raised annual fees from about $2,500 to $7,500. In its judgement, the court had allowed financially independent private sector to run professional colleges, a right granted earlier only to minorities based upon religion or language.
Private universities recognised by Chhattisgarh and other States and offering courses in the State now face a threat of their courses being derecognised if they do not comply with new guidelines issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Stanford University is freezing faculty and staff salaries for next year. While such freezes have become common at public colleges and less-elite private institutions, the step may be the first...
For-profit colleges increasingly use arbitration agreements to prevent lawsuitsAs a divorced mother of two receiving little child support, 38-year-old Diana Michery was eager to find a good-paying...
At the height of the civil war in El Salvador, a massacre of six Jesuit. A Phoenix in El Salvador priests brought life at a private university in the capital to an abrupt though...
China's National People's Congress approved a new law in December 2002 that promotes Chinese private education development, including at the higher education level. It gives private institutions privileges and favorable policies enjoyed by their public counterparts, including tax and other financial benefits.
Focuses on the growth of private universities in Chile. Increase in enrollment in higher education; Amount of tuition fees charged by the universities; Complaints of the universities on the government's ruling on student loans.