Minister of State for Higher Education Badri Narayan Patra on Thursday assured the Assembly that the Government will review the functioning and the fee structure of the private colleges.
In Robert Brennan’s office, on a shelf across from his desk, sits a wedge-shape chunk of green marble. Etched into the marble are two numbers: Mount St. Mary’s University’s endowment figure, $44 million on June 30, 2008, before the stock market nose dived, and $36 million a year later.
The North Carolina House says campus police at private colleges should be required to provide the same information about arrests and emergency calls as public universities and city police must do.
A bunch of private colleges have been in a financial aid arms race for years now, offering bigger and bigger merit scholarships to lure the best students.
The number of private universities will be slashed in Kazakhstan by 2015, Tengrinews.kz reports. A public council on optimization of universities has been created in the Education and Science Ministry of Kazakhstan. The Council includes members of the Kazakhstan Parliament, presidents of universities, prominent journalists, members of Nur Otan party and different associations. For more information see: http://en.tengrinews.kz/edu/Kazakhstan-to-halve-private-universities-by-2015-17540/ Use of the Tengrinews English materials must be accompanied by a hyperlink to en.Tengrinews.kz
A bill to strip Vanderbilt University of its police powers unless it drops a controversial nondiscrimination policy appears to be in jeopardy after a ruling by the state’s attorney general.
A university system is that institution which operates at the tertiary level of the country’s educational system. Regarding which level of government should run a university system, the Nigerian constitution places university education on the concurrent list; implying that both the federal and the state governments can establish and run a university.
The state government has reduced the land holding limit for establishing private universities in the state. Accordingly, private universities will now be allowed to be set on an area of around 10 acres as against 50 acres previously.
A federal court has again ruled against the U.S. Department of Education on its “gainful employment” regulations, with a decision that is likely to complicate a possible appeal. It could also fuel broader debates about government data collection in higher education.
In an unusual partnership, Thunderbird School of Global Management today announced it is forming a partnership with a for-profit educational provider, Laureate Education, to offer educational programs around the world.
Officials at community colleges, which along with for-profit institutions are the major recipients of federal work force development funds within higher education, have mixed views on the House bill.
The Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, USIL, a leading private university in Peru, will receive a US$23.5 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to expand access to affordable education programmes for low-income students and double its capacity from around 12,000 to 25,000 students over the next 10 years, reports Andina.
The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has accredited Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU) as the 30th private university in the country.
Regent's College in London will become only the second private university in Britain after receiving official approval to change its name to Regent's University London.
The issue of allowing private universities to set up campuses in Himachal Pradesh came up in the state assembly Tuesday with members raising questions about the credentials of some of these institutions.
Himachal Pradesh government stated in the assembly that it is not certain about the authenticity of degrees being provided by the fifteen private universities which came up in the state during last BJP rule.
The issue of permission granted to large number of private universities to set up campuses in Himachal Pradesh and land purchased by them, rocked Assembly on Tuesday with members questioning the credentials of these universities and the degrees being awarded by them.