De acuerdo al Grupo Educación al Futuro, el incremento de universidades privadas ha sido explosiva tanto en Lima como en las principales ciudades del país.
Once the hottest things in higher education, private, for-profit colleges and universities have suddenly found themselves on the business equivalent of academic probation.
The strength of America’s private universities means that the nation will continue to lead world higher education despite Asia’s rise – but US public universities are falling far behind those private institutions.
IN his 2011 TED talk, Gene Wade thus shared his vision of an ultra low-cost college degree for working adults. As of today, he has raised $42 million in venture capital for his new company, UniversityNow, and its two for-profit universities, Patten and New Charter. The first students started in the spring. Around the same time, Forbes magazine named Mr. Wade the most disruptive figure in education.
Adding to its commitment to the American retail industry as a vital sector of the country's economy, University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest private universities, and Stein Mart today announced a new scholarship program for employees of the nationwide retailer.
“Government has a secret plan; they wanted Prince Charles to lay the foundation for a private university and privatise free education. That is why they close all universities during this period,” an IUSF spokesperson, Haritha Lakmal, told University World News.
Siendo aprobada la reforma hacendaria por el Congreso de la Unión y la Cámara de Senadores se impondrán más cargas tributarias a las empresas y población en general, lo que repercutirá en una baja en las percepciones y una alza en el pago de impuestos, por lo que las universidades privadas de La Laguna de Durango analizan las acciones a seguir en este escenario. Coincidieron los directivos de la Universidad La Salle Laguna, UNID y Universidad Autónoma de Durango en que se están analizando las opciones, pero que algo claro es que no se buscará un aumento al pago de colegiaturas.
Spring Hill was caught in the same tailspin that many U.S. private colleges are facing as they endure plummeting enrollment among price-conscious students.
Tightening conditions for student and tourist visas is not the answer to curb the influx of foreign workers disguised as students, said an education group. The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities (MAPCU) said the way to strike at the issue is to take drastic action against the culprits.
This Veterans Day, one way you can honor your neighbors, friends or cousins who have returned from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan is to help them avoid a scam.
Columbia University’s Teachers College, long esteemed as a premier institution for progressive pedagogy, is having an identity crisis. While majestic quotes from education philosopher John Dewey remain etched across the walls of the school’s Morningside Heights headquarters, his words ring increasingly hollow as Teachers College President Susan Fuhrman continues to serve on the board of—and hold 12,927 shares in—Pearson, the world's largest educational resource corporation, which distributes everything from standardized tests and textbooks to teacher certification and curriculum programs. Arguing that this role hampers their ability to speak out against the disastrous policy of high-stakes testing, students at Teachers College began a campaign last month demanding that Fuhrman divest from Pearson.
Private professional colleges have written to the government asking them to initiate steps to implement the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006 from next academic year.
While new numbers show the embattled for-profit world of higher education slightly improved its student-loan default rate, the number still far exceeds numbers for private nonprofit and public colleges and universities.
The U.S. Department of Education has signaled it wants to be more aggressive in policing for-profit colleges by proposing rules that would make it easier to cut off funding to low-performing schools and, in some cases, force colleges to help borrowers who are stuck with large debts and low earnings.
Strayer Education announced Thursday that it would close about 20 physical campuses, mostly in the Midwest, to cut costs in response to a 17 percent year-over-year enrollment drop that has sharply reduced its revenues.
Private equity firm founder Bradford Freeman made it onto the field for one play as a Stanford University scholarship football player and jokes that he is “the highest-paid student-athlete, per minute, in history.”
Private institutions of higher education are concerned about the reform bill on higher education recently unveiled by the government, fearing that provisions on financing and staffing standards would effectively disable them.
The Higher Education Minister of Sri Lanka has said that private universities to be established in the country will offer free education to students from lower income families.
IE, which stands for International Excellence, is a private university founded in 1997. Its first program in Florida will be taught in its new office in the Blue Lagoon area and online, the Business Journal said.