Are graduate students who work as teaching assistants and research assistants at private universities entitled to collective bargaining? The answer depends on whether these graduate student employees should be seen primarily as students or employees, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed.
Recognizing the increasing role of non-profit organizations in today's economy, Indiana University is poised to launch the nation's first School of Philanthropy.
In an effort to broaden the spectrum of higher education, the state government is set to rope in private players and impart quality education at the university level. The effort of the Trinamool government is seen as a step ahead of the erstwhile government's decision to set up a private technical institute of higher learning, like the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication at Kalyani, which didn't materialize.
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has devised a new classification system to measure the performance and characteristics of for-profit colleges and universities.
El evento será a propósito del 50 aniversario del Consejo de Rectores de Universidades Privadas (Crup) que se celebrará con una reunión en Posadas –será la primera vez-, ocasión en la que, además habrá un seminario paralelo de los Grupos de Integración conformados en Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay que pretenden conformar emprendimientos con producciones compartidas entre los países. Asistirán también referentes de incubadoras, empresarios y funcionarios de la región.
Since Nigeria’s National Universities Commission (NUC) announced the suspension of the licences of seven private universities on 4 July, reactions have poured in from stakeholders of the affected institutions, write Dayo Adesulu, Favour Nnabugwu and Laju Arenyeka for Vanguard.
The bill says both state and private universities have to follow government regulations in developing their curriculums and that any decisions they make about offering new majors or conducting research is subject to evaluation by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
In the midst of a broader indictment of the U.S. education system, Stiglitz wrote that for-profit colleges "exploit those at the bottom" of society, and that they're "better at exploitation than at delivering a valuable education."
When Jesús Ignacio Lechuga applied to college three years ago, he was looking for an education that would be affordable and allow him to work and study at the same time. So he applied to the International College for Experienced Learning, or Universidad ICEL, a for-profit university in Mexico City, where tuition is 10 percent of what it is at the city's elite nonprofit universities and classes are offered at nights and on weekends.
As Mexico’s last baby boom comes of age, more young people than ever aspire to a college degree. A rush of private higher education institutions has arrived to meet rising demand.
A Supreme Court ruling could pave the way for a flood of appeals from private colleges and overseas students against a significant number of government immigration decisions, lawyers have said, writes David Matthews for Times Higher Education.
Let's start at the beginning. There are good and bad schools in every sector of higher education. We should all be working together to create postsecondary education that provides real access, real education and real skills leading to real jobs. Today, 13 million are unemployed and 90 million are underemployed.
A day before the federal government's controversial new rules governing vocational programs were set to take effect, a federal judge on Saturday invalidated one of its key elements, blocking enforcement of much of the regulatory framework.
These new policies were soon translated into regulatory frameworks to provide quality education in the private sector coupled with support from international institutions of higher education. The Malaysian government realised this would ease the pressure on currency outflow but to put such a policy into effect was by no means an easy task.
After a two-year investigation of the for-profit higher education industry, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Monday unveiled an exhaustive report on the colleges' business practices, highlighting schools that charge excessively high tuition and shortchange academic investments in order to maximize revenues.
El fiscal Carlos Gajardo será uno de los dos persecutores que se harán cargo de la investigación penal sobre el lucro en el sistema de universidades privadas.
Todo tipo de exoneraciones, incentivos y beneficios tributarios vigentes que no tienen ningún plazo de conclusión, solo durarán 3 años, de acuerdo con el Decreto Legislativo 1117.
La presidenta de la instancia, la diputada del PRI Alejandra Sepúlveda, expuso sobre el trabajo y afirma que el "ministerio de Educación no ha cumplido su responsabilidad en la educación superior".
Al menos 17 rectores de universidades privadas del municipio manifestaron su inconformidad y rechazaron la apertura del Instituto de Estudios Francisco Ugalde (IEFU), que abrirá sus puertas en agosto de este año, porque consideran que las ya existentes cubren la demanda educativa en la región.