Britain's first private dental school will open next September. The school, which will take 100 students a year on a five-year course costing £180,000, is expected to be the forerunner of many more private institutions offering specialist degree courses.
Duke University has appointed Liu Jingnan, former president of Wuhan University, to be chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, and Mary Brown Bullock, former president of Agnes Scott College, to be the institution’s executive vice chancellor
The American University in Cairo has suspended classes because of student protests, reports the Egypt Independent. On Sunday students objecting to an annual 7-percent increase in tuition barricaded campus gates and blocked access for faculty members and fellow students, leading to heated confrontations.
When resources are limited, philanthropy isn't the best practice. Advocating this mantra, the Planning Commission has retained a suggestion to allow higher education institutions to run for profit in the final draft of the 12th Five-Year Plan.
Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman’s retirement next June along with departures of the heads at Yale University and Dartmouth College mark a generational shift in leadership in the Ivy League.
Those planning to set up private universities in the state will now have to follow a new mandatory condition - they will have to provide 50% of seats to students from Karnataka. Otherwise the state government will not provide them private university status.
For-profit universities in Brazil are benefiting as rising incomes and greater access to credit boost demand for higher education in Latin America’s largest economy, where fewer than 1 in every 10 Brazilians has a college degree.
The Washington Post Co.’s Kaplan higher-education division will close nine campuses and consolidate four others into existing nearby locations, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The company said it would stop new enrollments at the nine campuses it is closing, but that it would continue teaching the students currently enrolled there.
For-profit colleges collected $32 billion from the federal government in the 2010-11 academic year, but three of those schools will now be cut off from that money.
People who attend private profit-making schools account for 47 percent of all those with a loan in default. Public schools account for 42 percent; private nonprofit, 12 percent. Loans are considered in default when payments are 360 days delinquent.
DeVry Inc.'s CEO Daniel Hamburger said Thursday that he sees better times ahead for the for-profit education company given a recent acquisition, cost-cutting measures and improving enrollment trends at some of its schools.
La falta de presupuesto y de normas claras impide ejercer suficientes controles sobre la calidad educativa de las 52 universidades privadas que operan en el país.
Un poco flojo. Así arrancó el nuevo período académico en las casas de estudios superior privadas de Maracaibo y en la Universidad del Zulia (LUZ). La poca afluencia estudiantil se evidenció en las aulas de clases, a las que en su mayoría asistieron alumnos nuevos o del primer semestre.
La creación de un consejo nacional de educación superior vinculante e interventor así como la autarquía son parte del consenso entre organismos públicos y privados del sector, para avanzar con la ley de educación superior.
La universidad La Gran Colombia de Bogotá oficializó hoy un acuerdo con la Universidad Simbiosis de Pune, en el oeste de India, para intercambios estudiantiles, misiones educativas e investigaciones conjuntas.
Tras la jornada de este sábado de la Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile en el Campus Oriente de la Universidad Católica, los secundarios declararon que están dispuestos a funar las elecciones municipales y que se encuentran trabajando con las federaciones de las universidades privadas.