Nearly 500 private higher education institutions (IPTS) in the country will be affected if the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) is abolished, said Deputy minister in Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Ahmad Maslan.
A college education -- even at a top private college or university -- doesn't have to cost you an arm and a leg. Here are ten private schools from Kiplinger's 100 Best Values in Private Colleges and Universities where the net price tag per student -- the annual cost (tuition, fees, room and board, and books) to students after financial aid -- is $20,000 a year or less.
Los investigadores Juan Dubra y Néstor Gándelman realizaron un estudio comparativo entre las investigaciones de las universidades privadas y la Universidad de la República en el área de la Economía. "La calidad promedio de los trabajos de las privadas es mayor que los de la UdelaR", afirman.
Ballots cast in November will help decide how the federal government confronts the costs of college and what role the private sector plays in higher education.
222 of 2,181 private colleges and universities nationwide will raise their tuition rates by an average of 10 percent or P41.52 per unit when the next school year opens in June, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said.
As Mexico’s last baby boom comes of age, more young people than ever aspire to a college degree. A rush of private higher education institutions has arrived to meet rising demand.
As one of the few cops walking the beat of global higher education, Britain’s Quality Assurance Agency does not limit its audits to schools inside Britain. Adjustment, rather than punishment, is the aim of the Q.A.A. Before the agency issues even a “limited confidence” judgment, the university being audited will typically be given the opportunity to appeal the decision. Out of 38 degree-awarding institutions audited last year, only two were given “limited confidence.” Of the 47 private providers reported on, the Q.A.A. issued just one finding of “no confidence” and two of “no reliance.”
The American Association of University Professors has issued an open letter expressing "growing concern" about academic and personal freedoms at a controversial new liberal-arts campus in Singapore founded jointly by Yale University and the National University of Singapore. It is yet another demonstration of the unease among many academics with American universities' global ambitions.
A new £18,000-a-year private university headed by the philosopher AC Grayling and offering lectures by Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson and Steven Pinker has not filled any of its courses ahead of its opening next week.
Todo tipo de exoneraciones, incentivos y beneficios tributarios vigentes que no tienen ningún plazo de conclusión, solo durarán 3 años, de acuerdo con el Decreto Legislativo 1117.
Dr Charles Olweny, a globe-trotting oncologist who trained and worked on four continents – including as a professor of medicine in Winnipeg – decided seven years ago to leave Canada and return home to lead Uganda Martyrs University, a private Catholic institution. His leadership strategy is guided by five core principles, he told University World News.
El secretario general de la Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Universitarios (Contu), Enrique Levet Gorozpe, afirmó que 30 por ciento de la matrícula de alumnos universitarios del país estudia en universidades privadas.
Cuando al menos cinco universidades privadas están en la mira de la fiscalía por lucro y posibles acreditaciones falsas, y el cierre de la Universidad del Mar dejará 18.000 alumnos con títulos sin valor alguno, parece evidente que los privados ya no le garantizan al país transparencia ni calidad en educación.
Six private colleges in Australia will be included for the first time in the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) application process, which will give the private sector greater weight, writes Jen Rosenberg for The Sydney Morning Herald.
La Conferencia Episcopal de Honduras envió una nota al Congreso Nacional demandando la urgente aprobación de la Ley de Universidades Privadas, instrumento en proceso de socialización desde el año pasado. El documento fue firmado por el cardenal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, presidente de la conferencia episcopal, y todos los obispos de la Iglesia Católica de Honduras.
Un dicho popular albanés dice: "Ya que me he licenciado en la universidad, debo acabar la escuela media". Una broma que no lo es tanto, ante la creciente sospecha sobre el negocio de venta de títulos académicos falsos por parte de las universidades privadas.
The expansion of higher education has been extraordinary. Since the Catholic University of Angola, the country's first private higher education institution, was founded in 2001, the government has recognised a further 15 private universities.
According to Carte Blanche, 12 of the courses offered by Damelin, one of the largest private higher education institutions in South Africa, are not registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training. Offering these courses without the requisite registration is an offence.
THE Zambia Open University (ZAOU) has increased its tuition and related fees by 25 per cent effective January 28, 2013. ZAOU public relations manager Mulife Malambo said in a statement yesterday that despite the increase, the fees were still low compared to those charged by other universities in the country.
In order to attract private investment in higher education, the government should allocate land free of cost for 999 years to set up educational institutions, a plan panel committee headed by NR Narayana Murthy has suggested.
Alrededor de 77.000 alumnos afrontan el nuevo curso en las universidades de Castilla y León, la mayoría en centros públicos. Las de Salamanca, Valladolid, León y Burgos acogerán en sus aularios a casi 70.000 estudiantes, además los que estudian en la UNED. El resto se repartirá en las universidades privadas: la Pontificia salmantina, la IE Universidad, la Católica de Ávila y la Miguel de Cervantes vallisoletana, principalmente. Burgos cuenta con otro centro privado centrado en la formación a distancia, la Isabel I de Castilla.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to abandon radical plans to reform Britain’s university system that would have seen more private firms competing to educate students, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Chile’s Ministry of Education has launched a web portal offering with unprecedented detail employment and earnings data to prospective applicants to higher education. The portal, called “Mi futuro” is a searchable database that lists hundreds of degree programs, professional and technical, from Medicine to Auto Mechanic, displaying for each program of every institution of higher education in the country the following information: drop-out rate, average time to degree, average earnings of the graduates after 4 years of graduation, current tuition fees for the program, and accreditation status of the program.
El hermano del candidato presidencial Franco Parisi dijo en un programa de TV que no es "ningún santo" y que planteó incorporarse a la propiedad de un plantel de educación superior. "Pero si era un tremendo negocio", aseveró.
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.
Una moratoria temporal para la creación de universidades públicas y privadas por un periodo de tres años, es lo que dispone el proyecto de ley aprobado por mayoría en la Comisión de Educación del Congreso.
Not all college educations are created equal. And as long as a university’s prestige has been associated with its exclusivity, the rungs of higher education have been racially stratified. Nowhere is this reality more clear than today, when the for-profit college giant the University of Phoenix, is graduating the most college graduates of color in the nation.
El rector de la Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Enrique Arnau, cuestionó el Warmi Huasi Yachana, centro universitario fundado recientemente en Abra Pampa, al sostener que la nueva institución no está autorizada por el CEPRES NOA (Consejos de Planificación Regional de la Educación Superior).
La alianza permitirá a técnicos y tecnólogos de la Entidad y a todos sus servidores (planta y contratistas) obtener un título profesional en esta Institución Universitaria, o también hacer un postgrado, en modalidad presencial –inicialmente en Bogotá– o de forma virtual, a nivel nacional.
Los últimos acontecimientos en una universidad privada destacan la necesidad de una efectiva fiscalización en relación a los contratos con empresas relacionadas.
Professional associations in Egypt have begun clamping down on graduates from private universities who gained admission to higher education with school-leaving marks far lower than those set by state-run institutions.
California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris filed a lawsuit Thursday against Corinthian Colleges Inc. and its subsidiaries, accusing the company of false and predatory advertising, securities fraud and intentional misrepresentations to students.
People who attend private profit-making schools account for 47 percent of all those with a loan in default. Public schools account for 42 percent; private nonprofit, 12 percent. Loans are considered in default when payments are 360 days delinquent.
Buckingham is the UK's only officially independent university, which sets its own fees, and there are calls for more like it. The rise in the university tuition fee cap across England has led to huge protests, and yet some top universities want it to be even higher.
AC Grayling argued that students' comments on Facebook and Twitter - and how their degrees were accepted in the workplace - would help regulate private colleges such as the New College of the Humanities, which he set up.
At the root of the unrest lie numerous disputes between student activists and the government. Above all the activists' oppose plans for private colleges, which they say will end young Sri Lankans' entitlement to free higher education.
El pasado 9 de enero Felipe Calderón anunció el Programa de Financiamiento de la Educación Superior, que prevé otorgar créditos bancarios con la garantía de Nacional Financiera (Nafin) y la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP), por un monto de dos mil 500 millones de pesos, etiquetados para 23 mil plazas a distribuirse en 21 universidades privadas.
El ministro de Educación se reunió hoy con los rectores de las 26 universidades privadas acreditadas, los que, a su vez, le solicitaron que los convoque al menos dos veces al año a una reunión en conjunto con el Consejo de Rectores.
This is a landmark step for students, universities and the KHDA. It is a huge boost to students that their degrees are recognised by all public and private sector entities in Dubai, and a sign that the quality of private higher education on offer in Dubai is indeed world-class
While a handful of elite private institutions -- mostly liberal arts colleges -- with no shortage of demand and strong financial positions recently made headlines by announcing tuition freezes or increases close to or at inflation for the 2012-13 academic year, some of the most selective private universities are increasing their sticker price by almost 5 percent, which for many is the largest increase since the 2008 recession began.
A national convention on Higher Education on Monday denounced the three bills introduced by the government for the control of private institutions and universities, as “draconian.”
In past decades higher education in Slovenia has been characterised by increasing globalisation, market-orientation and the privatisation of public and growth of private institutions. But the difference between the public and private sectors is not as obvious as one might think, with the former looking increasingly like the latter.
All private higher education institutions (PHEI) will be required to post a bond before they are issued licences to operate. The Higher Education Ministry is expected to impose the condition by the end of the year.
The boom of private colleges and universities in the Czech Republic will be soon over as they have already fulfilled a high demand for degrees that politicians, policemen and other civil servants needed for their work, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes Wednesday.
It seems imminent, a whole lot of private universities are coming up in the state and are bound to knock traditional universities down a notch (or two) with their breakthrough numbers.
Ameritas, launched last week, blends for-profit and nonprofit elements and has a singular focus on Latinos who are working adults. It is part of Brandman University, a private, nonprofit institution with 26 campuses in California and Washington.
Rosemir Soares always wanted to go to university but could never afford the fees. Then she discovered Prouni, a scholarship program of the Brazilian government that has guaranteed a college education for more than one million low-income students since it began, in 2005.
The British government will abandon plans to make it easier for private higher-education institutions, including for-profit American companies, to operate in the country, reports The Telegraph.
The British government's apparent move to suspend the higher education bill will not automatically derail the expansion of private provision, according to government critics and leading private institutions.
Private higher education providers in Britain are to compete directly with public universities for undergraduate places for the first time after the British government announced that it aimed to bring them under the same controls on the number of students accessing public loans, and the same quality assurance regime, as the rest of the sector.
Wealthy donors to Ivy League universities can "buy a place" for their offspring, and admissions policies at elite U.S. universities are far less meritocratic than anything that would be accepted in Britain, the universities and science minister has argued.
Brown University agreed to a deal with the city of Providence, R.I., that would double the amount the Ivy League college currently pays to the financially troubled city.
Aquí en Costa Rica todo el mundo sabe qué ha pasado, pasa y, probablemente, seguirá pasando en el mundo de la educación. ¿A quiénes se pretende engañar?
For-profit college giant Career Education Corp. announced that it will close 23 of its 90 campuses and eliminate 900 jobs after the company reported a net loss this quarter of $33 million and a 23 percent drop in new student enrollment.
The Chairman of the Higher Education Authority, John Hennessy, has criticised the “very restrictive” public service working practices across the third-level sector. In an address yesterday he also envisaged a greater role for private colleges in the provision of higher education courses in Ireland.
In a previous op-ed (India fails test of 'knowledge economy', Asia Times Online, November 30, 2012), I drew attention to what can be called a "research deficit" in India's higher education. In it, I mentioned a study by Thomson Reuters according to which India produced only 3.5% of the global research output in 2010 and its contribution in most disciplines - including mathematics and computer science - was lower than its overall average.
Will the 13 proposed private universities do what the professional colleges did for Karnataka? Both the government and the academics vouch for the need to have private sector participation in higher education and welcome the state legislature's nod to have 13 new private universities in the state. Presently, the state has two private varsities, the Alliance University and Azim Premji University.
The cost of college went up again. The full cost for a year at a public college hit nearly $18,000. If that isn't sticker shock enough, the average cost of a private education is almost $40,000 per year.
Career Education Corp. reported a massive second-quarter loss Tuesday, making it the latest for-profit educator to show poor financial performance amid a more difficult operating environment.
Tras reunirse con parlamentarios de la comisión investigadora de funcionamiento de la educación superior, el fiscal nacional aseguró que "por la magnitud de los eventuales delitos que se puedan configurar, creo que debería ser un fiscal a lo menos con dedicación preferente a la causa".
With support from state governments decreasing, digital tools challenging traditional pedagogy and for-profit schools taking students away from traditional colleges, higher education is experiencing its most radical changes since the inception of public post-secondary learning.
Camila Vallejo has come to the UK to deliver its students a message: learn from what privatisation did to higher education in Chile or your universities will suffer the same fate.
La mitad de la matrícula universitaria y casi toda la técnica (91,7%) estudia en instituciones privadas en Chile, lo que convierte al país como el tercero con más cobertura particular en la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico (Ocde).
The Ministry of Education submitted its request to the National Council of Education (CNED) on Monday for the closure of Universidad del Mar, following a five-month audit. University officials, employees and students were not officially notified of the request and were instead informed of the possible closing upon reading local press publications.
Chile’s Justice Minister Teodoro Ribera resigned on Monday amid allegations he has ties to a former director of the country’s accreditation committee, or CNA, which improperly authorized some universities to operate.
El Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción (CNA) y nueve universidades, representadas por sus rectores y académicos, constituyeron una alianza democrática para vigilar la correcta aplicación de la Ley Electoral y de las Organizaciones Políticas de cara a los comicios internos y generales.
At private colleges, enrolling about one-quarter of four-year college students, list prices remained substantially higher: $39,518 on average, including room and board. During the previous three years, net prices at private colleges had declined. But this year net tuition and fees increased about $780. Including room and board, but factoring in aid, the typical student at a private college is paying $23,840.
The government is being urged to prevent universities being bought by private equity firms after the College of Law, a charity that provides teaches law courses in London and six other cities across England, was sold to a private equity firm for £200m.
Private universities and colleges are against a proposal by the Higher Education Ministry to collect bonds from them, with a view to providing students with a safety net.
Many for-profit colleges also still enroll students without diplomas, and the new regulation has caused concern, said Steve Gunderson, president of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities.
La comisión que investigó el funcionamiento de las universidades comprobó que, al menos, cinco instituciones privadas, por medio de múltiples resquicios, violan la ley permitiendo el lucro de sus propietarios.
A report released this month by the U.S. Treasury Department shows a correlation between state budget cuts to community colleges over the past decade and a growth in enrollment at for-profit colleges.
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.
Dozens of private colleges across the country are trying similar cuts. Higher education experts say that could signal a change in how colleges set prices and disburse financial aid.
Tras la jornada de este sábado de la Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile en el Campus Oriente de la Universidad Católica, los secundarios declararon que están dispuestos a funar las elecciones municipales y que se encuentran trabajando con las federaciones de las universidades privadas.
Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo accused Education Minister Harald Beyer of presenting a “contradiction” regarding the government’s stance on nonprofit higher education in his new higher education finance plan released on Monday.
The bill seeking to set up six private universities in the State would pave the way for enhancing the quality of higher education, Higher Education Minister C T Ravi has said.
La falta de presupuesto y de normas claras impide ejercer suficientes controles sobre la calidad educativa de las 52 universidades privadas que operan en el país.