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.
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.
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.
Student numbers at private higher education institutions will be capped from 2014-15, the government has confirmed, while private providers will also be granted unlimited recruitment of high-grade students.
Private, for-profit colleges have joined the march of institutions that appear to be lowering their tuition as enrollment flattens out and families become increasingly price conscious.