The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Friday vowed it will “get tough” and run after substandard schools, warning colleges and universities all over the country to improve their education standards or face closure.
“With this new piece of law, public and private universities will now operate under common regulations, which is good for ensuring quality and standards,” said Prof Freida Brown, vice-chancellor of the United States International University – Africa.
Private higher education institutions (PHEIs) are having mixed feelings about the push for the rating system for higher education institutions (Setara) programme, which will be made compulsory next year.
In this context the committee has noted with concern the unregulated growth of the private sector in education, in particular private institutions that have acquired the status of deemed universities chiefly to gain degree-granting powers with a commercial and profit-making motive.
News usually thrives on controversy, so most of us would have no difficulty remembering J.A Kufour's last gesture as president, where he ordered the reinstatement of ACP Nathan Kofi Boakye with all his entitlements, and the public's reaction at the time. We would probably not remember that the NPP President had also promised $1billion as seed money to boost the capacity of one of the private universities in the country.
The 323 Malaysian students from Universitas Andalas in Padang can continue their studies at some local private institutions of higher learning (IPT) which are willing to absorb them.
A recent study of the applicants to seven elite colleges in 1997 found that Asian students were much more likely to be rejected than seemingly similar students of other races. Also, athletes and students from top high schools had admissions edges, as did low-income African-Americans and Hispanics.
State Rep. John Quinn, D-Dartmouth, filed a House bill Thursday calling for a study of $20.7 million in state money given to private colleges, a response to private law schools' fierce opposition to the University of Massachusetts' plan to take over the Southern New England School of Law and make it the UMass law school.
Wake Forest University and Elon University have both been named among the 100 best values in private higher education institutions by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Wake Forest ranked 25th on the list of 50 private universities that combine economic value with exceptional education, while Elon ranked 28th on the same list.
Law on Education is expected to take effect in Azerbaijan soon. Regardless of ownership, the higher schools will receive status of state, municipality and private institutions.
Private universities have sprung up like mushrooms in Ghana. In 1999, there were just two but since then 11 new private universities and 19 private polytechnics or colleges have opened their doors.
Faced with a freshman class that is 20 percent larger than expected, Ithaca College in New York is paying 31 students as much as $10,000 each to delay attending the school for a year.
The collapse of a number of private Australian vocational colleges over the past year is damaging the nation's image abroad, according to angry students, many of them Indian, who have been left high and dry with their visas at risk.
Higher education, however, remains a luxury for the majority of Indonesia’s younger generation. Universities, state and private, can accommodate only one third of more than 2 million senior high school graduates annually
Because of the huge faculty shortage in India, the Indian government has now prohibited private higher-educational institutions here from using Indian faculty members when setting up campuses abroad, The Times of India reported today. Those institutions will also be forbidden to move profits from their domestic campuses to their foreign ones, or to cross-subsidize them.
David M. Walker, the outspoken former U.S. comptroller general, is probably one of the few people who can make a talk about national debt sound like a hellfire-and-brimstone sermon.
U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley voiced dismay today over the findings of a report by The Chronicle about compensation for private-college employees other than presidents. The Iowa Republican has been urging private colleges, as nonprofit entities, to rein in pay for their top executives, and he cited the report’s findings that the highest-compensated employees in academe made more than $4-million in 2006-7.
Twenty years ago, the private university disbanded its teams. Now it's rebuilding them, with the expectation that sports will attract students in general.
Starting this month, veterans of the post 9/11 era will be able to go to college on the “new G.I. Bill.” But a dispute over language nearly scuttled the back-to-school plans of California vets. KPCC’s Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports.
Most private institutions are in major cities and are rather small. They offer two-year courses in industrial, business and secretarial fields and some are affiliated with foreign higher education institutions, mainly in France, and provide joint higher level courses.
Qualified lecturers rarely do the teaching in the Congo's private universities. Instead, unqualified assistants take courses that are often obsolete, theoretical and useless for finding a job, says Le Potentiel of Kinshasa.
The Delhi Declaration also acknowledges the role of private initiatives in meeting the rapidly growing need for higher education, particularly technical and professional courses. However, the participating nations were of the view that private institutions should be inclusive in their approach to access.
Private providers of higher education have welcomed a North Gauteng High Court ruling that the Department of Higher Education could not stop a local company from assisting foreign universities in providing education in SA.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it's likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.
The article discusses fears among U.S. private colleges and universities that the state aid they receive may be among the first programs cut as states tighten their budgets. Fluctuations in state spending on private higher education are discussed, as are the types of aid, including money given directly to colleges and grants and loans to in-state students.
The Federal Government last week announced the granting of licences to enable seven new private universities to operate. With that approval, the number of recognised universities in the country rose to ninety-six, thirty-four of them private.
The article discusses the lack of enrollment at several private colleges in Japan. According to the article, Japan's ministry of education has announced that almost half of the country's 550 private four-year universities are below their government-set recruitment targets. Japan's low fertility rate and its demographic conditions are contributing to the schools' enrollment problem.
The article discusses how Vietnamese citizens Ton Nu Thi Ninh and Dang Thi Hoang Yen have worked to support the creation of private universities in Vietnam. The author discusses the perception of private education in Vietnam.
Waldorf College, a financially struggling private institution in Iowa, has agreed to sell its assets to Columbia Southern University, an online institution based in Alabama.
Another week, another transaction involving a for-profit online college. The latest: A private-equity group is buying Northcentral University, an all-online institution founded in 1996 and now...
Those who testified at a hearing by the U.S. Education Department debated whether rules on recruiting are too lax and made the case for what they would like to see as the department prepares...
Waldorf College, a financially struggling private institution in Iowa, is discussing a potential sale of its assets to a for-profit, online education company, The Des Moines Register reported.
Armed with a Sh500 million war chest in funds, partly raised through a private placement, the Kenya School of Professional Studies is set to expand its facilities after getting the green light to operate as a private university.
Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities president Dr Parmjit Singh calls for regular dialogues between the Higher Education Ministry and private education providers with a view to blurring the boundary that separates public and private tertiary institutions.
To cement Malaysia’s status as a global eduhub, plans are afoot to improve the nation’s higher education scene and the private sector is set to change in a big way.
Although the top brass of private IPTs were largely positive to the ministry’s proposed incentives, not all were as keen in acclimatising to the new requirements.
The article discusses Covenant University in a town outside Lagos, Nigeria. As a privately run, Christian university, it breaks with a Nigerian tradition of free public higher education. The demand among Nigerian youth for higher education is beyond what the state can provide, leaving an opening for private institutions.
The article reports on a study from Moody's Investors Services showing that institutions of higher education in the United States, especially private colleges and universities, face stiff challenges in 2009 and beyond. The areas of greatest challenge were identified as increasing pressure on tuition and financial aid, losses in endowments, liquidity pressures, and volatility in variable-rate debt markets.
With tuitions, fees, and room and board at dozens of colleges now reaching $50,000 a year, the ability to sustain private higher education for all but the very well-heeled is questionable. According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, over the past 25 years, average college tuition and fees have risen by 440 percent — more than four times the rate of inflation and almost twice the rate of medical care.
Chairman, Governing Council of the Lagos City Polytechnic, Ikeja, Mr. Babatunde Odufuwa has called on government at all levels to put necessary administrative structures in place to grant aids to students in private tertiary institutions in the country.
Uganda's National Council for Higher Education has adopted stricter regulations for the registration of private institutions in an effort to ensure higher standards. It has warned that some private universities might be forced to close.
Replying to a debate on the Private Universities Bill, 2009 in the Assembly on Friday, Education Minister Ramanlal Vora said the gross enrolment ratio in higher education (in the age group 18-23) in the state was lower, though marginal, than the national average.