With the NYU brand recently expanding its satellite locations all over the world, including Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, numerous European countries, and Shanghai, Tisch Asia remained the only school that was not a part of Sexton’s so-called “global university”, and coincidentally, the only overseas NYU institution not created by the president himself.
Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N) is in exclusive talks to buy the educational publishing unit of McGraw-Hill Companies Inc (MHP.N), prevailing over rival bidders Cengage Learning Inc and buyout firm Bain Capital LLC, a person familiar with the matter said.
The re-election of President Obama isn't likely to result in a slew of new regulations aimed at for-profit colleges. But with student debt and the cost of college expected to remain high-profile issues in his second administration, industry observers foresee little let-up in the focus on the for-profit sector.
It’s somewhat fitting that the Council of Independent Colleges’ annual institute for chief academic officers is here in the city that saw the highest population growth between 2000 and 2010, and the second-highest growth between 1990 and 2000, with much of that growth coming from Hispanics.
Indian universities in the private sector need to look for diverse sources of funding rather than depending solely on tuition fees if they want to improve education quality, a higher education panel has concluded.
Specially on the role of private sector in higher education, ASHE 2012 report says that the private participation in the education sector should of quality and of great intent. Taking cue from the success of private involvement in education in the 11th Plan, the report says that private sector should be encouraged to establish larger and higher quality institutions in the 12th Plan
A report on status of higher education prepared by Planning Commission and industry body CII has favoured greater participation of private sector in higher education with the establishment of larger and higher quality institutions during the 12th Plan Period.
Tisch Asia, a graduate film and creative arts school in Singapore that is a branch of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, this month announced that it would close, possibly in 2014.
Japanese education experts say they are unable to support the controversial rejection of applications for three new universities by new Minister of Education Makiko Tanaka, who said too many universities would erode higher education standards.
Lovely Professional U., in northern India, boasts of its modern infrastructure, especially compared with the bare-bones campuses of many public universities. LPU's campus features Wi-Fi, a shopping mall, and restaurants.
McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) agreed to sell its education unit to Apollo Global Management LLC (APO) for $2.5 billion as Chief Executive Officer Harold “Terry” McGraw III remakes his family’s 124-year-old company around financial services.
Post-1992 universities could begin to change their legal status and open up to private investment in the wake of the University of Central Lancashire's application to the government to become a private company.
Free online courses offered by universities including Harvard and Princeton may one day award college credit, after a higher education trade group said it will study their eligibility.
The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) has awarded 7,000 scholarships to students of private institutions this year based on the Royal Directives of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
If all goes according to plan, Grand Canyon University's teams will play in a Division I athletics conference and its campus will maintain a hub of academic research. But it won't be easy for the Phoenix-based for-profit college, as its entire industry is under heavy scrutiny from the Obama administration and members of Congress, and since GCU was singled out in a U.S. Senate report just a few months ago.
The controversial for-profit college industry, threatened by the Obama administration's efforts to hold it accountable for a torrent of waste, fraud, and abuse at the expense of students and taxpayers, bet heavily on a Romney and GOP victory in 2012.
A task force convened by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities released a final report Wednesday that recommends changes to the Department of Education's annual financial responsibility measurement, a combination of three financial ratios that helps determine whether institutions can qualify for federal financial aid.