La Asociación Nacional de Universidades Privadas de Bolivia (ANUP) pide que en la reglamentación de la Ley de Autonomías se incluya a los estudiantes de Medicina de las universidades privadas para que realicen prácticas en los hospitales públicos.
El Gobierno aprobó el Decreto 1433 que reglamenta el sistema universitario privado. Entre los artículos más importantes está la disposición de que las universidades privadas deben entregar al Estado el 1 por ciento del total de sus ingresos a favor de la Agencia de Acreditación del Estado. La Asociación de Universidades Privadas ya hizo una representación para ser escuchada, pues considera que una agencia de esta naturaleza “debe ser un órgano técnico que debe sustentarse con los aranceles de los servicios que presta”.
En la historia de las universidades privadas en Bolivia, no existe información sobre la organización de sindicatos para defender los derechos laborales de los docentes. ¿Es necesario crearlos?
En tiempos en los que la inversión pública permanece en estado de coma profundo, la provincia de Málaga se erige en polo de atracción para la empresa educativa privada. El interés de la Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM) por fijar un campus en la capital así como el concurso público al que ha dado alas el Ayuntamiento de Marbella para albergar una universidad de carácter internacional en su término municipal genera debate y plantea preguntas. La primera y más evidente de las cuestiones es si un centro educativo de estas características supone una nueva fuente de riqueza para un territorio. Y si es así, cuál es el precio.
El rector de la Universidad Autónoma de La Laguna calificó de positivo el primero informe de Rubén Moreira, sin embargo, dijo que esperan llegue el presupuesto pactado con el mandatario en varias reuniones.
Now, Yale is seeking to export those values by establishing the first foreign campus to bear its name, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is set to open this summer. The ambitious, multimillion-dollar project thrills many in the Yale community who say it will help the university maintain its prestige and build global influence.
After two year's worth of chairing frequently combative committee hearings on for-profit higher education, Sen. Tom Harkin's four-part report should come as no surprise. But there is more bad news for the industry.
Whilst the expansion of private higher education enrolment has had a significant impact in boosting access, these universities are relatively small and as of 2005, almost 90% of students were in Public universities and other institutes of higher learning. The Private higher education sector is, however, continually expanding and its proportion of intake can only go up.
Ten years after private engineering colleges made their way in the state in 2002, the cash-strapped state is all set to throw open its doors to self-financing degree colleges and universities as in other parts of the country. The proposal will be placed in the Cabinet for the final nod.
West Virginia's Higher Education Policy Commission has approved a rule expanding its authority over private and for-profit colleges. The policy approved Friday would require information from every state private college on student retention rates, transfers, licensure pass rates and loan default rates.
Last week the for-profit behemoth University of Phoenix said it would close 115 locations. The move comes on the heels of a late September decision by Kaplan Higher Education to stop new enrollment at nine of its sites and consolidate four campuses.
Para evitar los vicios sindicales, los profesores de universidades privadas, cuando se organizan, enfrentan el desafío de aprobar estatutos completos y coherentes con su naturaleza. Probablemente sea más importante la disposición psicológica para acatar tales normas
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.
Student groups in Sri Lanka are in uproar over fears that the government wants to ban their main union, the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF). Students said this would be a step towards destroying the education system and would pave the way for private universities.
Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung has urged private higher education institutions (IPTS) to update their IPT Formation Management System (IFMS) data online.
Dirigencia magisterial acusa a los centros de educación superior de "ahuyentar" a los estudiantes con las pruebas de aptitud y admisión, y piden que se apliquen pruebas en las universidades privadas.
A Korea-born American who heads Pyongyang's only private university is trying to teach students in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea about market economies, writes Park Ju-Min for China Daily.
The University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest for-profit university, is closing 115 of its brick-and-mortar locations, including 25 main campuses and 90 smaller satellite learning centers. The closings will affect some 13,000 students, about 4 percent of its student body of 328,000.
The University of Phoenix spent the most money on Google Adwords -- roughly $170,000 per day -- in the third quarter of 2012, according to a recent report by Wordstream, an online advertising consulting firm, cited by the Daily Mail. Ask.com, Amazon.com, Zappos.com and Hotels.com came in second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively.