After being in the doghouse for more than two years, for-profit colleges such as Apollo (APOL), DeVry (DV), Corinthian College (COCO), and Strayer College (STRA) are rallying today - Apollo reported better-than-expected profits this morning. Does it mean that the sector has turned the corner? Should investors go bargain hunting in the sector?
Calliope Wong, a high school senior from Connecticut, has twice sent an application to the prestigious all-female Smith College, but her papers have been returned without even an official admissions review.
The letter is signed “cordially” but students who received the instruction to stop handing out condoms on campus say they were taken aback by demands they feel could go as far as threatening their rights.
Scores of students, led by the district unit of the Students Federation of India (SFI), staged a protest here on Thursday condemning the opening of private universities in the State.
Regent's College is to become the UK's largest private university, after the business department BIS confirmed that it met the criteria for university title.
At a time when there are growing concerns over the establishment of many private universities, University Grants Commission (UGC) is working on a new set of regulations to govern the functioning of private universities in the country.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said the Government will not issue licences to new private universities in the State, saying they are “not needed in a small State”.
A bill to establish three new private universities in the state will be tabled in the assembly next week. The Gujarat Private Universities (Amendment) Bill will pave the path for establishing Lakulish Yoga University in Ahmedabad, Team Lease Skills University-ITI at Tarsali in Vadodara, and CU Shah University in Wadhwan.
When the University Grants Commission (UGC) expert committee that was set up to amend the regulations on private universities meets here next week, it will discuss the concerns expressed by the Supreme Court in 2005, when it delivered its ruling in Prof. Yashpal & Anr vs State of Chhattisgarh and others while endorsing the UGC (Establishment of and Maintenance of Standards in Private Universities) Regulations, 2003.
With the mushrooming of private universities in the country, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted an expert committee to revisit the clauses in the UGC (Establishment of and Maintenance of Standards in Private Universities) Regulations, 2003.
The UAE’s higher education sector has grown very rapidly since the country’s first institution of higher learning, UAE University, opened in Al Ain in 1976. Today, more than 100 universities and colleges operate here, including three federal institutions and 37 branches of overseas universities.
The state government on Monday cleared decks for setting up of private universities in Bihar. A bill in this regard will soon be moved in the state legislative assembly by the state government.
The private university is backed by Turkish businessmen who are close to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political party. The school started in 2004 and has grown to 1,500 students. It is shooting for 5,000, the capacity of its new building.
Catholic universities across the United States say they would tell student groups distributing condoms on campus to stop and would potentially threaten disciplinary action, just as Boston College did earlier this month.
Thursday’s march was held in solidarity with the former students of the Universidad del Mar, a private institution that was shut down by the government after the extent of its financial irregularities came to light. The university, on the Chilean coast just north of Valparaíso, educates 8,000 students who are now scrambling to find a way to graduate, relocate or get a refund on their pay-as-you-go education before the school closes in December of 2014.
Even as the National Accreditation Regulatory Authority Bill for higher education remains to be passed by Parliament, the country's first private accreditation body came into being on Friday.
Due to insufficient space in the five public universities to accommodate all high school graduates, the government reached an agreement with private universities to admit the students.
For most of the past decade, private for-profit educational institutions were the fastest growing—and arguably the most visible—part of U.S. higher education.