But students say it's not enough because the system is still fails them with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans.
The Private Universities Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has called on the National Service Secretariat (NSS) to reconsider its intention of deploying national service personnel to direct traffic.
One of the nation's premier private universities has agreed to recognize a pro-life student organization – but only after the palable threat of legal action. Johns Hopkins University had denied the petition of Voice for Life on March 12 and 26, but the university's Student Government Association (SGA) Judiciary Committee granted approval last night.
Clearing the decks for private institutions to enter the field of higher education in Maharashtra, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved model guidelines for opening private varsities.
The state government on Wednesday withdrew its earlier bill on self-financed private universities to include 50% caste-based reservation. The bill was passed in the assembly in August 2011, but the governor had refused to sign it into law in the absence of the reservation clause. The amended bill is expected to be approved in the ongoing or monsoon session.
The recent establishment of a Private University Professors’ Union is the first step toward helping instructors in the vital private-education sector achieve benefits and other demands, but reaching that ultimate goal will likely be long and arduous.
The government of Sri Lanka says that private education is a necessity to meet the demands of the youth population in the country. Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake said the government would support to develop private medical education in the country.
Decks have been cleared for private institutions to enter the field of higher education in Bihar with the state assembly passing the Bihar Private Universities Bill, 2013 on Tuesday.
Bihar State Private University Bill 2013 was passed on Tuesday by voice vote in the state assembly, clearing the deck for setting up of private universities and related institutions of higher learning in the state.
The National Union of Students of the Philippines challenged private higher education institutions (HEIs) to follow the move of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) to implement a tuition hike moratorium.
After providing a free undergraduate education for around 100 years, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will begin charging students to attend in the fall of 2014. Students will still receive a big break, amounting to a 50% discount on the cost of tuition, but the days of full scholarship are over.
The higher-education company DeVry Inc. is facing inquiries from the offices of the attorneys general of Illinois and Massachusetts, according to a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
For the last three years, the senator has been in the spotlight for investigating for-profit colleges. In what Republicans denounced as a partisan witch hunt, he found that for-profit universities and colleges were receiving a growing share of federal student aid but spending much of the money on marketing and aggressive (sometimes fraudulent) recruiting, while students were taking on excessive debt, quickly dropping out and, all too often, landing in default.
SEIU joined with a large coalition of progressive groups calling on President Obama to reinforce the "gainful employment" requirement for career educational programs, specifically for-profit colleges and universities. SEIU was joined by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the United States Student Association, the NAACP, and dozens of other organizations in sending a letter to the President on Monday.
Even as the state government has paved the way for the opening of private universities in Bihar, the higher education scenario is unlikely to change much. A vast majority of the state's youth would continue to receive their higher education in the existing colleges and universities which depend solely on government grants. And, the state exchequer would have to cough up big grants to these government-funded institutions.
Khaled also said that there are 130,000 places available at the 37 private universities, 20 university colleges, 418 private colleges and seven international branch campuses in the country.
There is absolutely no demand for more engineering colleges in the state. It is going to be tough for the new private colleges to find students and faculty. Nearly 25,000 BE seats were vacant last year and it will be extremely difficult to woo students