Esta situación, entre otras muchas repercusiones, ha permitido la creación y auge de universidades privadas que buscan dar respuesta a esa demanda, que en su mayoría no ven a la calidad educativa como pilar de su plan de estudios, ni mucho menos como un valor diferenciador que permita a sus egresados sobresalir en el también áspero mercado laboral mexicano.
Este jueves, Fundalossada hizo el pago de 32.099.314 bolívares a 8 universidades privadas que integran el convenio de becas desde el Palacio de Gobierno.
A la oferta educativa se sumarán al menos tres nuevas universidades particulares: Champs Elysées, con 14 carreras; Universidad de Durango, con ocho y la Universidad Intercultural de León con seis.
De 600 pesos a 2 millones 520 mil pesos es la multa que la Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor podría interponer a universidades privadas -como la Unimex en el puerto de Veracruz-, por obligar a los alumnos a comprar paquetes de graduación específicos, advirtió el delegado estatal de la dependencia, Inocencio Yáñez Vicencio.
Las lógicas de mercado con las que operan las universidades privadas no selectivas, investigadas por lucrar, han ido en directo detrimento de la calidad de su docencia, según una investigación del Centro de Estudios de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile. El informe, que fue expuesto ante la comisión investigadora de la Cámara de Diputados sobre el lucro, indica que los efectos de la masificación de la educación superior, bajo criterios puramente liberales, no ha significado la movilidad social que propone.
Al mal tiempo, buena cara. Parece que así se lo proponen las universidades privadas y de la Iglesia, que confían en ofertas académicas actualizadas, más titulaciones dobles y en inglés el curso próximo, y becas propias para conservar o aumentar la fidelidad del alumnado en tiempos de crisis. Según la información recabada por Efe entre 17 de ellas, la matriculación se mantiene o sube, con alguna excepción.
Catorce universidades privadas de Mérida firmaron ayer un convenio de colaboración con la Secretaría del Trabajo para “romper el círculo vicioso que rodea a los recién egresados”.
The news that BPP has become the latest provider of legal education to slap a ‘university’ sticker on its for-profit business has not yet caused as much of a stir as when the College of Law adopted its University of Law moniker in November last year.
Yet Jay Bilas — former “student-athlete” and current ESPN broadcaster — called out the NCAA, just like he did Crow’s battle against for-profit universities like Grand Canyon University. Bilas went to the NCAA’s official website, typed in the surnames of various college stars and found he could buy their replica jerseys for as much as $179.95.
John Robinson, a local attorney and president of the Charleston School of Law Alumni Board, fondly remembers the closeness he enjoyed with faculty and fellow students as a member of the private law school's inaugural class of '07. With almost all of the courses being taught in a building on King Street, the students jokingly referred to the law school as a "one-room schoolhouse."
A federal appeals court has rejected a South Korean university’s lawsuit that had accused Yale University of acting negligently when it mistakenly confirmed that an art-history professor had earned a doctorate at the Ivy League institution.
British education authorities have granted full university status to an institution owned by the Apollo Group, the corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, BBC News reports. With the move, BPP University College of Professional Studies, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business and law, now becomes BPP University.
Career Education Corporation will pay more than $10-million in a settlement with the State of New York to resolve an investigation into its misrepresentation of data about the job placements of its graduates.
Education in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. The present standard is at its lowest level. Good enough, the Christian private universities have contributed, in no small measure, to the raising of the standard. However, we should ask ourselves if these private universities are meeting the needs of those who really want to acquire qualitative education but are limited financially?
The Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan said Friday that just 40.3% of private universities failed to reach capacity this financial year.
At the first graduation of 45 pioneers in Bachelor of Science degree, Business Administration; Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration; Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and of course Bachelor of Arts, Study of Religion and Church Administration, the Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT) Monsignor Dr. Jonathan Thomas Ankrah patriotically paddled into the debatable debate surrounding the role of private universities in Ghana.
Over 50 study centres affiliated to various universities with doubtful credentials are functioning in the city. None of these study centres are authorized to award degrees and diplomas that are recognized by universities affiliated to the University Grants Commission (UGC).