With an annual tuition of $31,260, Oakland's Holy Names University is a tough sell for students who are unable to scrape together enough financial aid.
While the government has its own limitations in allocating more funds to higher education, promoting private participation is unavoidable to meet the growing demand. In fact, private higher education in our country accounts for about 80 per cent of enrolment in professional courses and about one-third overall. Currently, the growth is restricted to some specific areas like engineering, medical and management education.
In the college level, the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) expects more than three million students to enrol in 2,247 public and private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
It seems imminent, a whole lot of private universities are coming up in the state and are bound to knock traditional universities down a notch (or two) with their breakthrough numbers.
State regulators intend to mete out swifter penalties and tighten oversight of dozens of private vocational schools that have been operating without state approval, in some cases for months.
West Virginia’s public higher education oversight body will, for the first time, have authority to regulate and shut down struggling private and for-profit colleges in the state if the Legislature approves a new rule change in the coming months.
While South Sudan is the newest and one of World’s poorest nations today, it has great advantage of opting to learn from others in order to leap-frog into the twenty first century. That way, South Sudan can avoid costly mistakes of trial-and-error approaches to developmental policy design, including policies regulating private higher education institutions (PHEIs).
The document also confirms that plans for further education colleges and private institutions to be subject to tight controls on the number of students – funded through Government-backed loans – that each one can recruit.
Private higher education providers in Britain are to compete directly with public universities for undergraduate places for the first time after the British government announced that it aimed to bring them under the same controls on the number of students accessing public loans, and the same quality assurance regime, as the rest of the sector.
South Sudan can avoid the costly mistakes of trial-and-error approaches to developmental policy design, including policies regulating private higher education institutions.
With support from state governments decreasing, digital tools challenging traditional pedagogy and for-profit schools taking students away from traditional colleges, higher education is experiencing its most radical changes since the inception of public post-secondary learning.
Finding that prospects appear bright for operators and investors in the private school segment across the region, Alpen Capital in a report said the private higher education segment, which is relatively under-developed, is likely to grow as new private and foreign universities set up operations in the region.
The government has adopted a policy of not discriminating between public, for-profit and voluntary providers of many public services. Is this the right way to go for higher education?
Private higher education has grown so rapidly that it now represents 50 per cent of providers and 10 per cent of students, according to a new analysis.
For-profit colleges took a hit this week in California, another sign that policy battles over the commercial higher ed sector may be shifting to the states.
The Board of Trustees of Indiana University has approved a plan to establish the nation’s first School of Philanthropy. The degree will carry the same weight as a degree from one of the university’s other schools, such as liberal arts.
Student groups in Sri Lanka are in uproar over fears that the government wants to ban their main union, the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF). Students said this would be a step towards destroying the education system and would pave the way for private universities.
Major universities in Korea collected 20% more in tuition fees than was due last year, according to a study released last week. The finding was based on a study of 20 Seoul-based private universities by the Korea Higher Education Research Institute, writes Kim Bo-eun for The Korea Times.