The shuttering of Ivy Bridge College could dump cold water on the online aspirations of some colleges, particularly ones that prefer to play it safe with their regional accreditor.
The Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona, announced in March its pending partnership with Laureate Education Inc. Several board members have since resigned, and alumni are protesting the alliance.
Las informaciones sobre los millonarios sueldos en la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega fueron confirmadas con documentos entregados por la propia casa de estudios y que figuran en la pericia policial (13-2013) remitida a la 24 Fiscalía Provincial de Lima, la cual investiga al rector Luis Cervantes Liñán y las presuntas irregularidades en las que habría incurrido.
Names of the stakeholders chosen to rewrite the controversial “gainful employment” regulation beginning in September are starting to slip out. Some are prominent critics of the sector, indicating the Obama administration isn’t backing off from tightening regulations on vocational programs despite a court challenge to its last attempt.
Over the past ten years, I have watched a smattering of “for profit colleges” do just that – make money. Sadly, these “for profit” entities are raking in so much money while offering some of the worst educational outcomes to America’s most vulnerable students.
Private education stocks climbed on Thursday, led by share of Apollo Group Inc. (NYSE: APOL). DeVry, Inc. (NYSE: DV) ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI) and Corinthian Colleges Inc. (NYSE: COCO) also moved higher.
Managements of private engineering colleges have agreed to last year's proposal on segregating colleges into three groups to settle the extra fee issue.
The U.S. Justice Department has ended its investigation into talks among the leaders of some private colleges about ways to encourage institutions to spend more on need-based aid and less on non-need-based aid.
Los opositores a la nueva ley dicen que esta permitirá a la empresa privada acceder a fondos públicos y beneficiarse con el presupuesto de la universidad nacional.
Entre las IES privadas con distintas certificaciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales de calidad, se ubican la Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Udlap) y la Universidad Popular Autónoma de Puebla (UPAEP).
Las elecciones para el representante de las universidades privadas ante el Consejo de la Magistratura, que debía realizar Derecho UC fueron suspendidas, tras un amparo promovido por UniNorte.
Hoy se realizará una reunión plenaria del Consejo de Rectores de Universidades Privadas (CRUP), del que participarán el ministro de Educación, Alberto Sileoni, y el secretario de Políticas Universitarias, Martín Gill. Durante el encuentro, que se hará en el campus Pilar de la Universidad Austral, se presentará a los nuevos miembros del consejo (los rectores de Isalud, Blas Pascal, Austral e Instituto de Salud Mental), se analizará el rol de la universidad privada en la reforma judicial y se evaluarán estrategias a desarrollar junto al Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional (CIN).
Professor David Millar, immediate past Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies, said government’s decision to bring private universities into the tax net would marginalise students from the three northern regions.
The disagreement between the State government and private college managements over the extra fee issue was out in the open at a press conference here on Thursday.
For India, where plenty of capacity has been created in higher education, quality of teaching should become the focus now, particularly in private sector institutions, according to Raghuram G. Rajan, Chief Economic Advisor, Union Ministry of Finance.
The rules required all private colleges to have “highly trusted sponsor” status with the UK Border Agency and to be reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency. Legitimate private higher education providers embraced the regulations.
The U.S. Education Department has named negotiators to a panel that will rewrite its controversial "gainful employment" rule, and for-profit colleges are feeling outnumbered.
Tucked into a defense-spending bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday are a pair of provisions that would bar colleges from...
On the same day two of the state’s largest universities were coming together, tiny Dover Business College was merging with Berkeley College in a marriage of two of New Jersey’s for-profit schools.
On the night of Aug. 5, Andrew Rosen, the chief executive officer of Kaplan Inc., sent a memo to employees about the blockbuster news that their parent company, Washington Post Co., was selling its flagship newspaper.
Jennifer Kerr took a mighty leap of faith when she sued a for-profit college for misrep resenting what kind of degree she'd be earning and its value to her future. Her con tract with Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. had a provision that, should she sue and lose, Kerr would be responsible for Vatterott's legal costs.
Students served by for-profit colleges have been termed the “neediest” by USA Today. Or, as Dr. Tim Gramling explained in his SAGE Open article on the topic, “for-profits largely serve adult students who are not recent high school graduates but who still need a college degree.”
A federal panel will tackle one of most controversial college regulations in Education Department history next month. The rule was meant to ensure that graduates of for-profit colleges are getting jobs and repaying their loans, but it was struck down last summer after a court challenge — so the department is going back to the drawing board.
Altius Education, a for-profit company that runs Ivy Bridge College, announced late Thursday that Tiffin University, a nonprofit institution in Ohio, has been ordered by its accreditor to stop offering associate degrees through Ivy Bridge. Those degrees have been covered by Tiffin's accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, which according to Altius said that the Ivy Bridge programs must end by October 20.
Kaplan Inc. has been both a savior and a sore spot for The Washington Post over the past decade. The sale of the newspaper to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leaves the for-profit education company behind, its future uncertain.
Even as the Washington Post saw its circulation diminish and its advertising revenues evaporate in recent years, the paper's parent company could draw on a conspicuous center of growth -- a chain of for-profit colleges known collectively as Kaplan Higher Education.
This fall Grand Canyon University will have 8,500 students on its Phoenix area campus, and another 47,000 enrolled in on-line courses. It describes itself as a Christian university with a Christian Viewpoint. GCU operates as a for-profit institution without state assistance or subsidy. Although it has no football team, it has 22 teams competing in men's and women's sports. For the past 10 years GCU has competed at the Division II level, and will now move to Division I as it becomes a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has written to the institution to confirm that it continues to meet the criteria for university title, following its £200 million sale to Montagu Private Equity.
Kaplan’s fortunes are looking up. The education company no longer has to pick up the slack for The Washington Post, the venerable newspaper and loss leader that Kaplan’s corporate owner, the Washington Post Co., just sold off.
Though students have a reason to cheer with the state government waiving off the JEE condition for admission into BTech courses, colleges are far from having a sigh of relief.
A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and University of Health Science on an application, challenging collection of Rs1,18,000 from students under the head of miscellaneous expenses by the private medical colleges.
Over 100 private non-minority and minority engineering colleges in the state, which offer post-graduate courses, may be asked to surrender 65 per cent and 50 per cent of their seats to the government’s single window counselling for post-graduate courses from next year.
The Youth Institute for Democratic Initiative (YIDI -Ghana) humbly calls on Government to restore the tax exempt status of private universities in the country. Considering the inability of public universities to admit the ever increasing number of Senior High School graduates annually, private universities serve as the only hope and option for thousands of Senior High School graduates who are unable to attend public universities due to inadequate number of facilities at public universities.
The President of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT), Very Reverend Jonathan Ankrah, says private universities should be seen as major contributors to national development rather than money-making ventures.
In a bold and commendable move, the government last week granted university status to BPP University, making it the second for-profit private higher education institution in the UK.
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.