Rasmussen College, a regionally accredited private college, today announced two initiatives that advance its commitment to making higher education affordable for students. A new AcceleratED Business Management Associate's Degree will be offered at a flat rate of $15,000 and can be completed in as little as 18 months. The Achieve Scholarship will offer new students enrolling in degree programs the possibility of receiving $500 per quarter toward tuition costs if students are continuously enrolled full time. Both are available to students beginning this fall, with a scholarship application deadline of September 29, 2013.
Private universities have beaten their public counterparts in enrolment of international students in a dramatic turn of events over the last couple of years, according to a report by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Dr Essa Al Bastaki, a communications engineer who was on the staff at UAE University for 30 years, is among a growing number of UAE nationals rising through the higher education ranks.
The advent of private universities in Nigeria was considered a welcome development for the simple reason that the public universities had become anything but centres for excellence. Aside the endless strikes by the lecturers and the non-academic staff which sometimes lasted as long as one academic session, the neglect of federal and state universities by successive governments has also resulted in a situation in which students of these universities were never certain as to the number of years they would spend for their degrees.
A private medical school in Malaysia, Allianze University College of Medical Sciences or AUCMS, is to expand to Europe with the purchase of a major university site in London.
Ashland University, a private institution in Ohio, is joining a small but growing group of colleges that have sharply cut their tuition while also reducing the amount of institutional aid they offer, to come up with a sticker price that’s closer to what students actually pay. That strategy is one of many that smaller institutions are exploring to try to ease concerns about college costs and shore up enrollments.
La fiscala Norma Cristaldo dictaminó por el rechazo de un amparo promovido por la facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del Norte (Uninorte) contra la realización de las elecciones para representantes del Consejo de la Magistratura, por las universidades privadas.
El título del artículo no dice nada nuevo, pero quizás no se ha descrito y denunciado como funciona el capitalismo en las instituciones de educación superior privadas en Venezuela (UPV), y lo poco o nada que hace el Ministerio Popular para la Educación Universitaria (MPPEU) para auditar o inspeccionar lo que allí ocurre.
THE number of students choosing private tertiary and vocational education over public has more than doubled in the past five years as students seek out specialised skills and a more personal service to get them into jobs.
Benefits have been disbursed to public and private nonprofit schools, as well as to for-profit universities and institutes, which collected more than $639 million by July 2010.
The Obama administration resumed a controversial effort Friday to regulate for-profit colleges and certain others that offer career-training programs to help graduates obtain “gainful employment.”
ATI Career Training Center looked like dozens of other private career colleges that dot South Florida’s educational landscape. It offered hope of a new career, a path into prosperity, an escape from poverty.
Now, a group of schools known as "for-profit colleges" have come under fire for lying to students to get them in the door then sending them into the working world with what some call a worthless degree in addition to tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
If the Obama administration gets its way, for-profit colleges will soon face tighter, tougher regulations based on how much debt their graduates carry.
Officials say the policy was drawn up based on interest expressed by a number of foreign universities and their branches, considering the growing number of higher education aspirants in the country. However, academics and private university stakeholders have expressed fear that the policy, which is currently under the Law Ministry’s vetting, would create discrimination between the foreign and local universities and would allow substandard universities from abroad to flood Bangladesh’s education arena.