After beating their chests over increasing seats in engineering, management, pharmacy and diploma courses, the state government is gulping down its throat a bitter pill this year. A total of 25 private technical colleges of MBA, MCA, pharmacy and engineering have decided to close shops and a formal letter has already been sent to the Gujarat Technological University (GTU). The one reason they have echoed is that none of these institutes have been able to get any student this year.
National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved 89 universities in the last 13 years. Among those approved between 1999 and 2012 by the agency are 50 private universities, 27states universities and 12 federal universities. This puts the total number of universities in Nigeria at 125.
A Catholic group insisted it would press ahead with its bid to build a private university in Fanling as the government warned that basic infrastructure alone could cost HK$400 million.
Establishing private universities in Sri Lanka is not bad since private universities of high quality are essential for the progress of both developed and developing countries.
However, the amount of legal threats, lawsuits, hacking attempts, domain hijacking attempts, and so forth on the part of for-profit institutions around the world (especially from the US and Canada) is something that we deal with every single day.
The fledgling campaign by some private college presidents to persuade their peers to wean their institutions from financial aid awarded without regard to students’ financial need has not exactly caught fire.
The university announced on Tuesday that it had created a business school with values it said would be “distinctively Catholic and character based.” The school seeks to define itself by infusing business courses with “morality and a sense of service.”
Apollo Group Inc. (APOL), owner of the University of Phoenix and the biggest U.S. for-profit college, said first-quarter earnings fell 11 percent as new enrollment declined for a third straight quarter.
We believe that the future of this nation lies with the private universities. When we say some of them are fledgling, it is because they will suffer from the pain of just beginning a programme, which forms the fulcrum of the issue.
A group of private-college presidents is taking a first step toward publicly opposing the rising use of merit-based financial aid and the decline in need-based aid. The move comes via a draft pledge unveiled at the Council of Independent Colleges' annual Presidents Institute here.
Politicians have over the years been accused of not walking the talk in policy implementation especially when it comes to addressing the challenges facing the education sector.
Amid the rapid expansion of the private sector in higher education, government figures show that the number private colleges has doubled over the last five years.
At the University of Evansville, a private institution in Indiana, tuition for students who enter next fall will be the same ($29,740) as it is now. And the price will be locked in for the four years those students are in school; the price also will be locked in for current students as they finish their bachelor’s degrees.
The State government has decided to shelve the Private Universities Bill and instead come up with model guidelines for opening private varsities in Maharashtra.
The University of Buckingham in the UK last week announced that it had stopped accreditation of courses for a private university in Uganda over freedom of speech issues and the controversy surrounding the homosexuality bill in the East African country.
A decree by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to establish a national scientific research project has fuelled a 20-month dispute between the private Nile University and a research institution managed by Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate Ahmed Zewail.
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Emory University and probably all of their peers have laudable missions: for their graduates to contribute to society. But these five institutions share another thing: none of their endowments is a member of the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), write Robert G Eccles and George Serafeim for Bloomberg.
Three Vermont private colleges announced today they plan to form a consortium to reduce costs associated with purchasing supplies and services common to all three institutions.
One more sign that colleges and companies see the financial possibilities of the international-student market: A British company that helps to bring students from China and other countries to campuses in the United States and other English-speaking nations has announced an investment of more than $100-million from a private-equity firm.
The demand for four-year college degrees is softening, the result of a perfect storm of economic and demographic forces that is sapping pricing power at a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities, according to a new survey by Moody's Investors Service.
An association of independent colleges and universities has criticized Gov. Dave Heineman’s proposal to increase funding to the University of Nebraska and the state’s colleges by $47 million during the next two years in exchange for a two-year tuition freeze.
The cost of college is high. As many high school seniors begin the annual ritual of deciding which college to attend, they and their parents are concerned about cost. Vermont’s private colleges share that concern and are introducing ways to make college affordable so that more reap the benefits of a college degree.
Even as Punjab government is bracing itself to hold the statewide joint entrance test (JET) for admission to polytechnic colleges, the clamor by private colleges to discontinue the test has grown louder. With less than one-fourth seats being filled than the students taking the exams, the futility of the exercise, proving to be expensive for the cash-strapped government, is being questioned.
With a limited local market and so many new private colleges opening up here, INTI College Sarawak might just be the first major casualty of the city’s extremely competitive private education sector.
In the wake of anomalies unearthed in admissions to two self-financing medical colleges, the governing council of Kerala University of Health and Allied Sciences (KUHAS) has decided to verify the certificates of all students admitted to the colleges affiliated to it in 2012-13 and cross check the list of students given by colleges to the admissions supervisory committee headed by Justice P A Mohammed with those sent to the university for registration during the period.
The International Finance Corporation on Wednesday announced a $150 million equity investment in Laureate Education, Inc., a Baltimore-based, privately held, for-profit education company that operates 65 career-oriented colleges in 29 countries.
Who was it who first admitted that they liked to go to bed at night with a Trollope? Well, like John Major before me, I'm not ashamed; I, too, often take a Trollope to bed with me. Like Walter Scott's, Anthony Trollope's novels read themselves, and make entertaining if sometimes caustic reading before sleep (truthfully, rereading in my case, as I invariably return to my favourites).
There are a dozen private colleges within Western New York’s eight counties. Having multiple options is a good thing for prospective students, but not so much for college recruiters who cast their lines in a population pool that continues to shrink.
The first batch of 60 undergraduates at the New College of the Humanities in Bloomsbury, London’s main university quarter, occupy a spacious Georgian house. Opening doors on the way up a grand staircase, your reporter eavesdropped on tutorials on ancient Greece, Romantic poets and economic theory. It feels like a dinky version of an august academic institution. Yet it is a for-profit organisation with a chief executive huddled over spreadsheets downstairs.
A number of new private universities with liberal arts programs have sprung up in India. There were fewer than 20 such schools in 2005, and there are more than 100 now, according to a report by Shiv Nadar University.
A month after the Maharashtra cabinet cleared a mandatory 25% caste and socio-economic quota in the Private Universities Bill, the state has developed cold feet over its implementation.
The ruling BJP, in its hurry to sanction permission to establish new private universities in the State, has even bypassed the Karnataka State Higher Education Council by not getting the feasibility report from it to open certain universities.
Enrollment at Ohio’s public colleges and universities fell almost 6 percent last fall, and figures at independent, not-for-profit colleges were down for the first time in 25 years.
The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to keep Islamabad’s private educational institutions (PEIs) in check. The Islamabad Capital Territory Private Educational Institutions (Registration and Regulation) Act 2012, which now awaits an approval from the senate and an OK from President Asif Ali Zardari, will require all law enforcement agencies to assist PEIRA in the “exercise of its powers and performance of its functions.”
How about getting four years at Princeton for the price of two? The proposition might sound too good to be true, but it is what the Private College 529 Plan promises.
Private medical colleges should increase the number of postgraduate medical programmes to commensurate with the increasing number of medical graduates in the country, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin.
Suspecting a bigger scam in granting of approval by Dental Council of India to private colleges, CBI today expanded its probe searching premises of three members of the Council's Executive committee and six private dental colleges.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has asked the private sector educational institutions to actively share the responsibilities with the government in promoting higher educational facilities in Fata besides providing education to youth of KP.
Kenya has enacted higher education reforms aimed at streamlining and improving the management of university affairs. The Universities Act 2012, finally signed into law by President Mwai Kibaki this month, introduces far-reaching changes.
One of the big draws of online education is that it can be easily untethered from the traditional semester schedule, with online universities often offering new classes 52 weeks a year. But while they are convenient for students, and profitable for institutions, rolling starts for classes can mean flimsy job security for the adjunct professors who teach them.
News of universities partnering with massive open online course providers has become commonplace, which is why Yale University stands out for what it’s not doing: rushing.
U.S. News & World Report has moved Tulane University’s business school to the “unranked” section of its business-school listings after the school’s recent admission that it had inflated test scores and the number of completed applications to its full-time M.B.A. program for several years.
In recent years, the government of Colombia has faced several obstacles in its attempts to catalyze socioeconomic progress, not the least of which has been working to end a drug war and regain control of most of the territory that had been lost to guerrilla groups. However, as Colombia enters a phase of economic stability and growth, it faces yet another enormous challenge: offering high-quality education to its citizens.
A two-year moratorium on new private universities, university colleges and colleges will come into effect Friday, the Higher Education Ministry announced Tuesday.
The National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday hurriedly passed three private member bills envisaging establishment of three universities in the private sector.
Private engineering colleges in the state have reiterated their demand to fill up 10% seats through management or NRI quota for the 2012-13 academic session.
Florida’s Independent Colleges and Universities have reason to cheer Governor Rick Scott’s budget proposal. Scott wants to boost the dollar amount of grants Florida students receive to go into those institutions.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has broadened her investigation into recruiting and lending practices at for-profit colleges and trade schools, which critics say leave students with mountains of student loan debt, but often do not lead to decent-paying jobs.
In remarks to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Tuesday, a Republican Congresswoman used a Holocaust reference to suggest that private college leaders should have stood up to the Obama administration's regulation of for-profit colleges.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) rehashed the education portion of the GOP platform Tuesday, promoting for-profit colleges in a speech labeled a "rebranding" of the Republican Party.
“I am a Phoenix” is no more. The once-ubiquitous TV commercials touting student and faculty pride in the University of Phoenix have been replaced by a new ad campaign that its marketers hope will “project a hopeful, positive message for America.” It’s also designed to lay the ground for what one university executive called “a massive repositioning” of the institution.
Wisconsin is shaping up to be an important front in the battle over for-profit higher education, with a likely crackdown in Milwaukee and a brewing debate over tighter regulations at the state level.
Private college presidents head to Capitol Hill today to make the case for private higher education, hoping to maintain funding for federal student aid programs while slowing down what they see as an encroaching tide of new federal regulations.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has broadened her investigation into recruiting and lending practices at for-profit colleges and trade schools, which critics say leave students with mountains of student loan debt, but often do not lead to decent-paying jobs.
Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with little choice except to sue their graduates.
A US$150 million equity investment by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) into US-based for-profit education company Laureate Education will help spearhead a push into Africa, in line with World Bank aims to develop post-secondary education and skills training on the continent.
Malaysia has announced a two year moratorium on new private tertiary institutions with the aim to raise its status as an educational hub. “Highly rated” foreign campuses are exempt from the freeze.
Crandall University will not apply for $150,000 that it has received annually as it attempts to move away from an ongoing controversy over what some say are anti-gay policies, according to its president.
State government’s proposal to set up engineering colleges in the state with an aim to improve the quality of technical education for students with subsidised fees has come as jolt to private colleges in the state operating with poor infrastructure and inadequate teaching staff.
Open markets for training funds have crippled some commercial colleges, according to the peak body ACPET, which says governments need to consider the impacts of their policies on private as well as public providers.
Two years after he tried to slash a scholarship program for students who attend private colleges and universities, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy now wants to merge it with two other grant programs, leaving some higher education officials concerned.
Even as the Supreme Court's verdict on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical and dental courses is awaited, private colleges have started conducting their own entrance exams. Caught in the middle of the Centre versus state tussle are thousands of students who have no idea what the future holds for them.
Following the footsteps of private engineering colleges, private medical colleges have demanded a hike in the fees of under graduate medical course seats obtained through CET 2013.
The managements of private engineering colleges are of the view that arriving at an agreement with the government on the fee structure and seat sharing matrix for CET, 2013 will be difficult unless it considers hiking fees in private colleges.
Duke University has pushed back the opening of its campus in Kunshan, China, by another semester because of construction delays and communication problems, according to The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper.
Shares of for-profit education companies traded higher on Thursday after DeVry Inc. reported strong quarterly results and the federal government said the Pell Grant Program, which provides financial aid to low-income students, is in better financial shape than expected.
In remarks to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Tuesday, a Republican Congresswoman used a Holocaust reference to suggest that private college leaders should have stood up to the Obama administration's regulation of for-profit colleges.
Minister for Higher Education C.T. Ravi on Wednesday told the Legislative Assembly that all private universities in the State have to set aside 40 per cent of seats for students from Karnataka and follow the reservation system as per government orders.
Tabling of Private Universities Bill raised a furore in the legislative council on Thursday, with JD(S) leader M C Nanaiah alleging a ‘business deal’ was being struck, to allow setting up private universities in the state.
The Private Universities Students’ Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has appealed to the Ministry of Education, to integrate them into the administration of tertiary education in Ghana.
The Legislative Council on Tuesday gave its nod for setting up three more private universities in the State, CMR University, New Baldwin University and Presidency University.
Legislative council on Tuesday approved the establishment of three private universities in the state and of them all the three are located in Bangalore. Universities are, one will be started by C M R Janaradhana trust , second by Baldwin education society and the third by Presidency education society .
The bills which were passed in the Council in a matter of ten minutes, without any discussion, saw its members stage a walkout in protest against the government’s move. Though members in the Assembly did not staunchly oppose the bills, they did question the credentials of the varsities proposed to be set up.
Having opposed the setting up of private universities in Himachal Pradesh, claiming that in the name of universities, shops are being opened, the Congress party has finally succeeded in starting a government probe into the opening of such universities. Besides checking the records, revenue officials are conducting physical verification of these universities to find out the truth.
The government has undertaken to set up non-state universities through the Board of Investment (BoI), leaving aside the Higher Education Ministry only to standardize such academic institutions, officials said yesterday.
Both the Houses of the State Legislature adopted four more private university Bills on the last day of the budget session amid protest by the Opposition parties, who took exception to the indiscriminate and the hurried manner in which approvals were being granted to the private universities raising suspicion of involvement of “business interests”.
Students at newer private colleges in Georgia could qualify for a state tuition grant if their school offers a nursing program under legislation introduced in the House on Tuesday.
Students who attend schools that are members of the Independent Colleges of Indiana spoke with their local lawmakers at the Statehouse. ICI President Richard Ludwick says that if the Legislature boosts need-based state aid for students at public universities, as is being discussed, private colleges hope Indiana will continue its tradition of offering the same amount of need-based aid to students at their schools.
A case that started with a 19-year-old Elon University student's 2010 arrest for underage drinking and resisting an officer is forcing North Carolina's Supreme Court to decide whether campus police at private colleges must be as transparent as their municipal law enforcement peers.
When Albert Anarwat applied to the for-profit Aristotle University, in California, the Ghanaian student said he asked the university if the institution was accredited. Not only was he told yes, he said, but he also was told that if the university was not accredited, “How could they get a SEVIS number” – SEVIS being the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. In other words, if the institution was not accredited, how could it be approved to host international students?
A graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine publicly vowed on Monday to cut off future donations to the school based on disputed reports that it plans to train U.S. military personnel on new interrogation techniques using local immigrants as research subjects.
A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday rejected the claims of a former Lehigh University graduate student who filed a lawsuit seeking $1.3-million in damages over a C-plus grade. During the trial this week, the judge chastised both sides for letting the case get to court at all.
Jean-Lou Chameau, who has served as the California Institute of Technology’s president since 2006, will depart the institution later this year to become the next president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia, both institutions announced on Tuesday.
The new president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, Edward O. Blews Jr., spent 28 years lobbying for private colleges in Michigan, where he was known for his sunny disposition, savvy political strategizing, and knack for doggedly but respectfully buttonholing lawmakers to talk about grant aid for students.
H. Holden Thorp, whose chancellorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was upended last September by a string of controversies, will be the next provost of Washington University in St. Louis, officials there announced on Monday.
The state government has recommended the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) not to extend the approval of three engineering colleges in the state for the academic year 2013-'14.
Leaders at Grinnell College, one of the nation’s wealthiest private liberal arts colleges, are expected to vote today on a reduction of financial aid for students because of budget problems.
Eleven private dental colleges of Punjab have admitted 456 students to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course even though they had “not qualified” the 2012 Pre-Medical Entrance Test (PMET), according to a “most urgent” communication of the Dental Council of India (DCI).
Students earning an associate degree at the state’s technical colleges can transfer into 19 Georgia private colleges under an agreement signed Wednesday