David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to abandon radical plans to reform Britain’s university system that would have seen more private firms competing to educate students, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The establishment of five private universities here is helping to transform the work force in this part of Cambodia, one of Asia’s poorest countries and a society still living in the shadow of the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge.
A national convention on Higher Education on Monday denounced the three bills introduced by the government for the control of private institutions and universities, as “draconian.”
The British government's apparent move to suspend the higher education bill will not automatically derail the expansion of private provision, according to government critics and leading private institutions.
Thousands of protesting students have been evicted from the campus of one of Sri Lanka's main universities following a court order. The evictions at the Sri Jayawardenepura campus comes amid disputes between students who have been protesting for days and the government. Students accuse the government of interfering in their lives. A senior opposition figure has said that Sri Lanka's entire education system is in a state of collapse. Despite the arrests of many student leaders last year, and their still pending trials, college unrest has returned on a large scale causing major disruption. At the root of the unrest lie numerous disputes between student activists and the government. Above all the activists' oppose plans for private colleges, which they say will end young Sri Lankans' entitlement to free higher education. They blame both university officials and the government for interfering in their lives - for allegedly subjecting some women students to virginity tests ...
The British government will abandon plans to make it easier for private higher-education institutions, including for-profit American companies, to operate in the country, reports The Telegraph.
At the root of the unrest lie numerous disputes between student activists and the government. Above all the activists' oppose plans for private colleges, which they say will end young Sri Lankans' entitlement to free higher education.
AC Grayling argued that students' comments on Facebook and Twitter - and how their degrees were accepted in the workplace - would help regulate private colleges such as the New College of the Humanities, which he set up.
Buckingham is the UK's only officially independent university, which sets its own fees, and there are calls for more like it. The rise in the university tuition fee cap across England has led to huge protests, and yet some top universities want it to be even higher.
The for-profit college and university business is a $30-billion-dollar industry in the United States. According to investigative journalist Daniel Golden, in the last decade, the for-profit colleges and universities have tripled enrollment and recorded profits of $26 billion.
With for-profit colleges under siege in Washington, Mitt Romney’s full-throttled endorsement for Full Sail puts him squarely in the middle of a political debate.
Four years ago, during the last presidential election, James "Bill" Heavener, CEO and co-chairman of the for-profit Full Sail University, served as a major source of campaign contributions for Barack Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, raising nearly $100,000 alongside members of his family.
Students attending for-profit colleges wind up with much higher student-loan debts, are less likely to be employed after graduation and generally earn less than similar students at public or private nonprofit schools, according to a recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.