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.
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.
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.
Yet Jay Bilas — former “student-athlete” and current ESPN broadcaster — called out the NCAA, just like he did Crow’s battle against for-profit universities like Grand Canyon University. Bilas went to the NCAA’s official website, typed in the surnames of various college stars and found he could buy their replica jerseys for as much as $179.95.
At a time when government universities and colleges are gearing up for students’ union elections, most private universities and colleges in state are shying away. This is despite the Lyngdoh Committee strongly recommended to conduct elections in all institutions.
The presidents of three Springfield-based colleges issued a joint statement on Tuesday, saying they will object to any "duplication of programs" if the University of Massachusetts locates a satellite campus in the city's downtown as proposed.
A division bench of MP high court has directed the state government to adhere to a 50:50 distribution ratio of post graduate seats in the state-run and private medical colleges. Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Vimla Jain made it mandatory for the director, medical education to follow the directions during counseling for medical PG seats scheduled this month.
An Islamic studies and Asian civilisation course, compulsory for students in Malaysia’s public universities, will also be mandatory for all private university students – including those at foreign branch campuses – from 1 September.
With private universities emerging in the mid-1980s, Pakistan is a unique example of a system that dropped its dependence on public funding and universities were encouraged to generate their own funds. Country Director British Council Pakistan Peter Upton put forward an important question at the dialogue: is higher education a private commodity, given the decline in state funding?
For-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix, whose tuition generally falls between state institutions and private not-for-profit universities, were the first to offer large online degree programs. But for-profit enrollment has declined because of the recession, increased government scrutiny and Congressional hearings finding that their students had low graduation rates and high loan default rates. And with so many traditional institutions now offering online degrees, the for-profit colleges may have a tougher time attracting students.
A lot of people have been complaining that for-profit colleges are merely diploma mills only interested in earning money and not educating students. Is this true?
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office announced the agreement with Career Education Corp., settling charges it inflated job-placement rates
The Obama administration has had no shortage of spats (and some out-and-out warfare) with the for-profit sector of higher education. But typically administration officials outside the Oval Office have been the ones directly expressing views on the sector.
Over the past several months, the credit ratings of several prestigious liberal arts colleges have been downgraded or assigned a negative outlook by Moody’s Investors Service.
Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court verdict, the Congress-NCP government is all set to bring in a comprehensive legislation to regulate admissions and fees in private medical and engineering colleges from the 2013-14 academic session.
Girls clinched the top three positions in the annual BA/BSc exams for 2013, while private colleges outperformed government colleges, according to results announced by the Punjab University on Wednesday.
One of the more alarming trends in higher-ed financing in recent years has been the startling increase in merit-based and other institutional aid for upper-middle-class and rich college students. As Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation has pointed out, there’s ample evidence that colleges’ “high tuition, high aid” approach — which was meant to allow for price discrimination, whereby rich students pay a lot and poor students get big breaks — has not had that effect, and has indeed resulted in schools using merit aid policies, which usually come at the expense of need-based aid.
A new requirement that private colleges in Malaysia teach a compulsory course in Islamic and Asian Civilization Studies has been politically controversial. The move has been described as a step toward increasing "Islamization" of the country’s colleges, as The Malay Mail Online has reported, and some argue that the course should be an elective. Government officials reject the argument that non-Muslim students should not be required to take the course, saying that the course covers not only Islamic civilization but also Chinese, Indian and Malay civilizations, as the Star reported. The course is already required of all students in public institutions.
Under the 2005 Education Law, Vietnam does not have “people-founded schools.” Therefore, the schools, established before the time the law took effects, will have to follow the procedures to shift into private run schools.
In 1999, only two private universities existed in Ghana. Now the country’s National Accreditation Board lists 43 private institutions offering degree programs, and most are Ghanaian-owned.
The Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Private Universities, Prof Kwesi Yankah, has called on government to take a second look at the imposition of tax on Private Universities.
The constant violence of student politics at Bangladesh's public universities pushed many students—especially from affluent backgrounds—to seek higher education at more peaceful, relatively violence-free private universities.
President Obama took a swipe at law schools and for-profit colleges on Friday, the second day of his college bus tour, suggesting that legal education could be just as effective if it took two years rather than three, and assailing proprietary colleges that leave students in debt and ill prepared for a job.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said this week his office is in the process of going over documents provided by a for-profit college, in response to a subpoena.
Donald Trump is no amateur when it comes to dispensing tough criticism, but on Saturday, he was on the receiving end of a hard hit when the New York State attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against his eponymous real estate school, The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative -- formerly known as Trump University. As the Donald faces civil litigation and demands for at least $40 million in restitution, the legal actions points another harsh spotlight on the for-profit education industry.
Because the media loves discussing Donald Trump, it wasn't surprising to see heavy press coverage of a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accusing the unlicensed Trump University of "persistent fraudulent, illegal and deceptive conduct." Trump responded by harshly attacking Schneiderman, whose suit demands that Trump pay back at least $40 million to the 5,000 people who were enticed into paying $10,000 to $35,000 for real estate investment courses "that did not deliver on their promises." Trump University's sad broken promises included telling some students they would get a photo-op with the Donald, when all they got was a picture with a cardboard cutout. But the real fraud was convincing enrollees that the Trump-owned for-profit "university" would get them on the path to a successful career, which apparently didn't happen for many of them.
Students opting for private universities will now know which one is better. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to allow private universities in all states to seek a tag of 'University with Potential for Excellence' (UPE) under the 12th Plan. Even private colleges can now get recognition from the UGC for doing good work.
Even as protests by engineering students for allowing 'carry on' gain momentum, Nagpur University officials have alleged that private engineering colleges are instigating the students. The colleges want the student agitation to succeed, as it will mean more admissions and more fees for them.
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.
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.