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.
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.
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.
Heitkamp, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, said she is also concerned about the high percentage of student debt that is privately financed, and that about 47 percent of defaults on student loans come from students of for-profit institutions
A bill that would open the door to for-profit companies -- including unaccredited “fly-by-night” ones -- to offer courses in the name of a state’s colleges and universities is fraught with danger. A bill that would require a state’s colleges and universities to outsource their core educational function is truly misguided, however well-intentioned the idea may have been.
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to take out student loans than those who attend any other type of institution, according to new data released Monday by the Department of Education.
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.