On Friday, prosecutors in Miami charged the politically-connected CEO of for-profit Dade Medical College, Ernesto Perez, with the felony charge of providing false information through a sworn statement, plus two misdemeanor counts of perjury.
There are many things that make Habib University a unique and interesting project, the least of which involves financing of the university and architectural aspects of its campus. In what constitutes "one of the largest" investments in a private university in Pakistan, most of the funding for this university currently comes from House of Habib. But Rizvi says that a good private university needs to be owned by the society, which is why the management plans to raise money from a variety of sources in the private sector.
In the 1970s, private universities arrived, hoping to open another door to prospective learners that were stripped of the opportunity due to Taiwan's limited budget for education. But who knew that the problematic bud of private education would be blooming and throttling the nation's future over the next 40 years.
Ernesto Perez has resigned as president and chief executive officer of Dade Medical College, a for-profit institution in Florida, less than a week after prosecutors charged him with perjury and providing false information through a sworn statement, according to reports by The Miami Herald and the South Florida Business Journal.
Challenging medical admissions under management quota, two writ petitions have been filed at the Madurai bench of the Madras high court against top government authorities and four private medical colleges.
African countries are still too focused on the state sector, and this hinders the private sector from contributing to alleviating poverty in the region, experts said during the IMF/World Bank meetings
Aggressive recruiters, toll-free numbers and late-night TV commercials mark some of the tactics used by fraudulent for-profit schools that Attorney General Martha Coakley said her office is investigating.
In an era of private universities, those of the 61,000 left stranded, whose parents can afford it, would be admitted into private universities or sent abroad. Let say 10,000. And another 10,000 would find their way into the polytechnic system and other state tertiary institutions.
La Comisión de Educación del Congreso recibió facultades de comisión investigadora del Pleno para indagar los altos sueldos que percibirían las principales autoridades y titulares de cargos directivos y de confianza en la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
Of the 42 universities in the state, 34 are state universities, three central and five deemed. Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema have 10 state universities each, while Telangana has 14. Besides, there are 700 private engineering colleges spread across the state.
The Anglican University College of Technology (ANGUTECH) has inaugurated its premier campus at Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region to mark its operations. Inaugurating the campus at Nkoranza last Friday, the Archbishop of Internal Province of the Anglican Church of Ghana, Most Reverend (Rev.) Dr Daniel Yinkah Sarfo, called on the government to compliment the efforts of private universities by supporting them with infrastructural facilities and other necessary incentives as are being enjoyed by public tertiary institutions.
A two-judge bench of the AP High Court on Monday gave its nod to the admissions made in private medical colleges for the present academic year. The bench of Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice D Seshadiri Naidu dismissed a batch of 50 writ petitions primarily on the ground that the writ petitions raised disputed questions of fact but failed to place strong evidence in support of the allegations.
Apollo Group Inc. (APOL), the largest U.S. for-profit college chain, posted fourth-quarter profit and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates even as enrollment fell.
After several years of startling revelations about its predatory abuses of students, the for-profit college industry faces growing skepticism from the public. Thousands of students across the country have complained that they were deceived by for-profit college recruiters about the cost of programs, the quality of programs, and the value of for-profit degrees in the job market.
Count Lesley University in Cambridge among the growing class of mid-tier, private colleges feeling the strains from the new financial calculus affecting the entire U.S. higher-education industry.
Asbury University became the first private institution of higher learning in Kentucky to enter the Kentucky Proud Farm to Campus Program in a ceremony yesterday, Oct. 10, in front of the school’s Johnson Cafeteria.
Here's a question for India's education-obsessed middle class and upper middle class parents: Would you send your son or daughter to a well-funded, well-appointed, classy private university backed by some of India's best names in business and academia but one that offers a liberal arts education?
Las instituciones privadas de educación superior en Puerto Rico aumentaron sus cargos de matrícula para absolver los costos del impuesto de ventas y uso que ahora les aplica y el impacto de gastos operacionales como los servicios de electricidad y agua. Así salió a relucir en un reportaje publicado por el portal de noticias Noticel.
There are now 19 public and private universities and higher education institutions, with almost 100,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Two universities conduct their courses in English and others teach science courses in English.
Para algunos bachilleres superar el proceso de admisión basta para ingresar en una universidad privada. Para otros, cubrir el precio de las matrículas se convierte en el gran obstáculo. El costo de la educación superior nubla las esperanzas de cursar una carrera pero, en las grandes universidades privadas de la ciudad, hay alternativas de apoyo económico para estudiantes.
An ordinance regulating private and vocational training schools and colleges not connected to a school or college district will take effect in 30 days following final approval Monday on a 4-0 vote with Councilman Ron Schnablegger absent because of illness.
Adjunct faculty members at Bentley University have voted, 100 to 98, against forming a union, dealing an early setback to an effort by the Service Employees International Union to organize adjunct instructors throughout the Boston metropolitan area.
Washington and Who? If you don’t hail from the South, you may be unfamiliar with Washington and Lee University. But this pint-size liberal arts college is making a name for itself as an outsize undergraduate value. Number one for the first time on Kiplinger’s liberal arts list, it has been flirting with first place for several years, landing in our top ten consistently since 2007
Embattled Virginia Intermont College expects to announce merger plans with another institution soon, according to correspondence issued to alumni this week.
Australia's largest TAFE system is under threat in Victoria after state government cuts to the state's colleges last year, and increasing competition from the more numerous private vocational education colleges that have sprung up in recent times.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued Corinthian Colleges Inc., the parent company of a chain of career-preparation colleges, in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday for alleged false advertising and marketing about its job placement rates.
For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has retained the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Harvard University and the University of Oxford tied for second place, while Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.
Haber dado marcha atrás al incremento del Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) en las colegiaturas permitirá el crecimiento en la cobertura de la educación privada, afirmó Miguel Angel Valdez García, rector de la Universidad La Salle.
A for-profit college chain intentionally deceived prospective students and investors about the value of its degrees and sought out the socially isolated and disadvantaged, according to a lawsuit California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed Thursday.
La disputa legal entre la CCSS y las universidades privadas por el uso y cobro de los campos clínicos para los estudiantes de último año de Medicina, tuvo un nuevo capítulo hace dos semanas; esta vez, a favor de la entidad pública.
Students got an eye-opening look at the for-profit college system and its impact on higher education Wednesday as they filled the Kurland Lecture Hall of the Valley Performing Arts Center to see “For Profit.” The film was presented for the inaugural Campus Equity Week at CSUN.
Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee. He also is a living symbol of the Republican Party's shameful loyalty to big for-profit colleges that have added to the corruption of U.S. politics, systematically ripped off taxpayers, and ruined the futures of countless students.
Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human-rights activist who had a public fight with New York University this past summer that raised questions about the influence of China on American higher education, has found a new home in academe. Mr. Chen will be a visiting fellow here at Catholic University of America, and will also be affiliated with a conservative think tank and a human-rights group started by a Democratic congressman.
El acta de la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación deja constancia de las razones por las cuales la UDLA no logró la acreditación. Señala que no tiene capacidad para sustentar su proyecto educativo, el que califica de “poco orientador”. También cuestiona el número de docentes y habla de bajas tasas de titulación.
More than half of private colleges that grant bachelor’s degrees and public colleges that grant bachelor’s and master’s degrees had not met their fall enrollment goals by May 1, according to the latest “Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admission Directors.”
Tuition at most of Long Island's public and private colleges rose higher in the last year than the national averages for comparable institutions in a pricing survey released Wednesday by the College Board.
For thousands of degree-hungry students, the advertisement on the billboard is irresistible. The Regional Engineering Institute Bhubaneswar dangles a much-coveted engineering degree. And the Institute of Aviation and Technology offers a tempting certificate in flying.
Even though colleges have slowed the rate at which they raise tuition, the total grant aid available to students has not been able to keep pace with tuition growth, according to two reports released Wednesday by the College Board.
The report summarizes the results of efforts of 50 private colleges, funded by grants totaling more than $5 million from the Walmart Foundation, to enhance services for first-generation students.
Exim Bank Agriculture University, the country’s first private agriculture university in Chapainawabganj, started its journey yesterday creating new scopes for the students interested in higher education on agriculture.
With private engineering colleges in the state facing a large number of student vacancies, some of them are resorting to unscrupulous means to fill up seats.
La ministra de Educación, Carolina Schmidt, aseguró que pronto se entregarán los resultados de la investigación sobre lucro en las universidades Pedro de Valdivia y Uniacc, pese a un notable retraso respecto de las primeras afirmaciones de la autoridad en la materia. Estudiantes de la educación superior privada llaman a cautelar por el futuro de los alumnos ante eventuales resoluciones.
Gone are the days when there was a huge demand for the DEd course and one had to score a minimum of 80 per cent to get through. Today, private DEd colleges are forced to shut down, thanks to lack of takers in the state.
Every year, price increases at private colleges prompt a round of appalled responses and calls for corrective action. But even as some sticker prices approach $60,000 a year, the amount that students actually pay — because of increased discounts, grants and tax benefits — has barely changed over the last decade, according to a major analysis of college costs published this week.
Every year, price increases at private colleges prompt a round of appalled responses and calls for corrective action. But even as some sticker prices approach $60,000 a year, the amount that students actually pay — because of increased discounts, grants and tax benefits — has barely changed over the last decade, according to a major analysis of college costs published this week.
The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, or APSCU, is the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group for America's for-profit colleges. APSCU has opposed a wide range of reasonable efforts by the Obama administration and members of Congress to hold bad actors in its industry accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse with the roughly $32 billion a year in federal tax dollars they receive.
In North Carolina, the difference between private and public institutions affects how colleges can enforce gun laws. Several days ago, Duke University officials released a statement addressing new gun legislation and fire arm safety on campus, according to the Duke Chronicle.
Con una única universidad privada hasta ahora autorizada, otra en fase de aprobación, y un tercer campus también en trámite, la oferta de plazas de carreras universitarias y posgrados en centros privados está creciendo en los últimos años en Canarias y la tendencia apunta a un incremento paulatino de nuevas universidades, títulos y plazas en el futuro.
One by one, the faces pop up on the computer screen. Some of the aspiring teachers hold coffee cups; others have their hair in ponytails or pushed into caps.
One of the types of institutions that has encountered public scrutiny in recent years is the for-profit higher education business model. These schools provide certificate and degree programs, with the majority of their student body often enrolled in associate’s degree programs.
Part-time faculty at several Boston-area colleges, frustrated by low pay and emboldened by their growing ranks, are taking steps to unionize amid an emerging national movement to give adjunct professors the chance to negotiate better working conditions and benefits.
Una sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional obliga a las universidades católicas a dotarse de una ley de creación que deberá ser aprobada por los parlamentos autonómicos. Hasta ahora, bastaba con la autorización de la Conferencia Episcopal para levantar un nuevo campus, pero la sentencia del alto tribunal equipara el proceso con el que ha de pasar cualquier universidad privada.
“Desde hace algunos años atrás, venimos trabajando en las universidades privadas porque en algunos casos los docentes cobran un salario significativamente inferior al de sus pares de la universidad pública y, en muchos casos, hay personal no registrado”, dijeron Mónica Carrizo y Edgardo Blangetti.
El rector de la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Jesús Pastor, reclamó ayer, en el transcurso de su intervención en el acto de apertura del curso, «una rigurosidad académica a la hora de autorizar titulaciones nuevas en las universidades privadas», en relación directa con la puesta en marcha de la Mare Nostrum, en El Campello, y la UCAM (Universidad Católica de Murcia) en San Juan; y en referencia a los estudios de Medicina (que la UMH imparte en su campus de San Juan).
El sistema ideado para el acceso a la universidad para los mayores de 25 años favorece a las universidades privadas. Al contrario de lo que sucede con la selectividad (PAU), en la que el examen se diseña a nivel autonómico para todos los aspirantes, en la prueba de acceso para mayores de 25 años, cada centro pone su propio examen.
Andhra Pradesh, which basked in the glory of being a leading educational hub, is now staring at the problem of plenty as the professional colleges mushroomed in the state have registered poor response.
En virtud de que la discusión sobre la reforma hacendaria no ha concluido por completo, la Asociación de Instituciones de Educación Superior Privada del Estado de Morelos junto con la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) dieron a conocer la entrega de un documento al Congreso de la Unión, para exponer su postura en contra del IVA a colegiaturas en escuelas privadas, al sostener que esta nueva carga tributaria podría dejar sin acceso a estudios a miles de jóvenes.
The motivating factor behind private companies venturing into online education is not to expand access to colleges and universities or reduce costs for schools and students, but rather a desire to make money. That's according to a report released by a national group of faculty leaders on Wednesday.
This year's admissions to private medical and dental colleges elicited very few complaints, only 14, as compared to more than 80 last year. While official data show that the admissions to the vacant seats after the second round in these colleges went smoothly, parents say many of their wards could not even attempt to seek admission, with just one day's deadline given to them.
El presidente de la Federación de Instituciones Privadas de Educación Superior (Fipes) afirmó que, de aprobarse, la norma aumentaría las trabas burocráticas. Congresista Daniel Mora niega esta acusación
An informal survey of Fitch Ratings' private college and university portfolio was undertaken in mid August in order to get an early indication on fall 2013 enrollment and fiscal 2014 operations. Overall, the responses paint a largely stable picture. However, these individual metrics in isolation may not depict the whole credit picture but can provide an early indicator of credit stress.
The Obama administration is toughening its regulation of for-profit colleges in numerous straightforward ways, most notably and publicly by taking another shot (after a federal judge blocked the last one) at drafting rules requiring vocational programs to prove that they are preparing students for "gainful employment."
America’s for-profit colleges and universities are playing an increasingly important role in supplying higher education that meets workforce demands, a leader in the field said in Atlanta this week.
As we move from a federal budget crisis towards a federal debt crisis, ways to reign in student debt will almost certainly be on the table. The US government spends about $5.5 billion subsidizing student loans each year, depending on who you ask. It's a rather elusive figure. Student debt, more so than other forms of debt, is particularly complicated for many reasons.
A former top higher-education official at the U.S. Department of Education is urging the agency to step up its oversight of for-profit colleges and become...
Just over a year ago, Senator Tom Harkin released a report detailing the predatory nature of many for-profit colleges. According to the report, these schools are often incredibly expensive, leave students with huge debts, have poor graduation rates, employ aggressive and unethical recruiting tactics, and receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Typically, for-profit colleges rely on federal grants and student loan money to cover the cost of high tuition prices of what often amount to worthless degrees.
The Ghana Baptist University College has held its eighth matriculation ceremony at Amakom, Kumasi, with a plea to government to give the private universities tax waivers.
Infamous for many irregularities, Nagpur University administration has always tried to suppress controversies. But this time, chancellor K Sankaranarayanan himself has sought clarification from vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal on the NU move to illegally grant benefit to ME/MTech students, who had been admitted by colleges even before they got affiliation last year, NU officials said.
Grand Canyon Education (LOPE) continues to prove that education pays off handsomely. Its stock jumped as much as 16% early Wednesday in massive volume after the for-profit university reported outstanding results late Tuesday and outlined a broad expansion program.
It's autumn, and a new batch of students are starting university. Some are walking through the ancient gates of an Oxbridge college. Others are joining a redbrick university like Manchester or Bristol. A few may even be arriving in Warwick as I did (only to realise the University of Warwick is actually in Coventry).
Harvard University will not divest of its endowment holdings in the fossil fuel industry, said a statement issued Thursday by Drew Faust, the president. She wrote that she and board members did not consider such a move to be "warranted or wise."
Un documento preparado para el taller “La investigación en las universidades privadas 2013” que se dictó ayer en la Universidad Católica de Córdoba (UCC) revela un exponencial crecimiento cuantitativo de investigadores y becarios de las unidades académicas privadas. Sin embargo, siguen representando apenas el cinco por ciento del total de investigadores del país.
Aided colleges in Tamil Nadu need not obtain prior permission from the government to fill vacant teaching/non-teaching posts which had already sanctioned for the academic year concerned, the Madras high court has ruled.
Finding affordable higher education options in Dubai seems increasingly difficult with private universities cashing in on a growing demand in the region.
Application will be open to the graduates of secondary schools or equivalent in the year 2006/2007 and up to the year 2011-2012. The ministry will cover full tuition fees, agreed on with private higher education institutions beginning from the academic year 2013-2014.
With the Himachal Pradesh High Court last week quashing the State Private Educational Institutions (Regulatory) Act of 2010, the state now lacks a mechanism to monitor its 16 private universities and an equal number of private institutes, mainly engineering colleges, officials said on Friday.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed the HP Regulatory Commission Act after finding it against the spirit of constitutions. An intrusion into the union lists of subjects in this bill was brought by the last BJP Government to keep tab on mushrooming of private Universities.
The TN Private Colleges (Regulation) Act does not contemplate prior permission from the government for filling up faculty vacancies, so aided colleges need not obtain them, the Madras High Court has ruled.
Having accused the BJP government of turning Himachal into Bihar by allowing a large number of private universities and compromising with standards of higher education, the Himachal government on Saturday did a complete U-turn.
The commission to regulate the private educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh now is invalid and so are its assessment orders, circulars, and notices.
Though the enrollment in UP government's technical colleges is higher, when it comes to quality, private colleges take the lead. This year, majority of meritorious students, according to Gautam Buddh Technical University (GBTU), are from private colleges.
Ohio's for-profit colleges aren't as profitable these days, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The paper says "tightened scrutiny from regulators and students" pushed profits at the schools from $215.8 million two years ago to $32.7 million last year.
Published tuition and fees rose 2.9% for in-state students at four-year public schools, the smallest one-year increase since 1975-76. At private schools, tuition and fees rose 3.8%, a bit slower than in recent years, according to a report from the College Board, a New York nonprofit that tracks university costs.
What began with a rush by private educational trusts to set up engineering colleges in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka a decade ago, is now suffering distress sales as the institutions fail to attract students to fill the available places.
La aparición de un gran número de universidades privadas de dudosa calidad en Aguascalientes ha sido un constante problema para el Instituto de Educación, según lo manifestó Salvador Camacho, titular de la dirección de educación media y superior, quien mencionó que por desgracia el IEA no tiene la autoridad para intervenir en estos planteles pues cuentan con Reconocimiento de Validez Oficial (REVOE) federal.
Students of private institutions kept last year’s trend alive by outperforming their counterparts at the public sector colleges when the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the commerce group results on Thursday.
Private colleges and universities are somewhat immune to many of the legal challenges of affirmative action policies since they don’t take public funds. Still, minorities are significantly underrepresented in private institutions, and enrollment has declined dramatically since the 1990s. White students were five times more likely to apply to a private university than a black or Hispanic student and were two to three times more likely to gain admission. The study also found that almost 60 percent of the enrolled students came from families representing the top quarter of income distribution, regardless of race.
The Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges on Thursday morning said it earned $18.9 million, or 80 cents per share, in the period ended Sept. 30, down from $42.9 million, or $1.83 per share, a year ago. Profit declined 56 percent on a per-share basis.
Facing a shrinking pool of young people because of the declining birthrate, four top private colleges in western Japan are setting up offices abroad to lure bright foreign students, utilizing attractions such as nanotechnology and geisha in Kyoto.