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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clarkson University President Anthony Collins supports President Obama's "shake-up" for higher education and is confident about how the upstate New York research university will fare in the new scorecards for colleges and universities.
CM Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stone of Lord Buddha International Institute of Medical Sciences (LBIIMS) at Beldari Chak in rural Patna on Saturday and said it would serve as a convergence centre for different aspects of medical science. The institute would be linked with four major places at Nalanda, Rajgir, Bodh Gaya and Vaishali where primary health centres (PHCs) would be opened and, later on, linked with this medical college. The LBIIMS will have 300 beds for poor patients and is first private medical college in the state capital.